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ATS was spun off from Bristol University

A test facility is in Cardiff, Wales

A first public system is at Heathrow Airport

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  • Heathrow personal transport pods are coming 1-23-2009

  • PRT in MIT Technology Review 2-8-2009

  • Podcars inch from myth to reality 2-11-2009

  • Space-age pods could transform Cambridge (UK) 3-6-2009
          • Major Cambridge-based corporation is supportive 3-10-2009

  • Google Street View: Heathrow guideway visible from Western Perimeter Rd. Mar. 2009.
    Substituting view from Bath Rd. (June 2009)


  • Opposition to Daventry PRT planning Schism grows between District Council and Town Council. 4-10-2009
          • Pod row 5-7-2009
          • Town Council's Feb. 2009 position 5-11-2009
          • District Council's public PRT documents

  • Podcars in the movies 4-15-2009

  • Brief video from Heathrow PRT, 4-21-2009


  • Asko Kauppi's photos from LHR conference

  • First video of ULTra passenger experience: Trip to T5 (Some videos being redone)
    Try this one

    All the videos

  • Pick Of The Pods 5-7-2009

  • "PRT Capital Costs Likely Understated"; math by rail advocate PublicTransit.us 5-14-2009. Devises scenario under which vehicles must be heavier, leading to higher guideway cost.
          • Response by Dr. Ross-Martin of ATS 5-19-2009

  • Light Relief

  • ULTra Heathrow system handed over to operations 7-9-09
          • Ceremony photos, video

  • Heathrow Tests Personal Rapid Transit Jul-Aug 2009

  • "Personal rapid transit" (Number Crunching blog)

  • Daventry PRT on hold due to global recession 8-10-09 Permalink

  • ULTra on display at the Science Museum in London (BBC)
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  • ULTra in Popular Science 8-19-2009

  • "Heathrow travellers get a robot chauffeur" New Scientist, 8-27-2009

  • ULTra batteries and charging described 8-28-2009

  • ULTra debut delayed to Spring 2010 9-4-2009
    "Testing of the PRT System is continuing and, with all installation and communications challenges now resolved, we anticipate commencing passenger services in late Spring 2010."


  • "Bold new transit system" (South Bay, SF area) 9-16-2009

  • San Jose sustainability officer visits Heathrow 9-18-2009

  • Futuristic ULTra Sustainable Transport in the Here and Now 10-4-2009

  • ULTra featured on The Discovery Channel ←multiple segments on podcars

  • Flight innovations you'll love (CNN Budget Travel) 10-16-2009

  • Rider experience video (Cardiff, Apr 2009) No audio:

                :: 2009 pod choreography video (Apr 2009)

  • Civitas news release on Bath UK PRT design expo 11-16-2009
  • ULTra inspires kids to design 'light rail' line (Sammamish,WA) 11-20-2009
  • Councilman Koretz blows Curbed LA's mind with PRT 11-20-2009
  • Heathrow ULTra coming to BBC One's "Inside Out" 11-23-2009
          :: Transcript and stills from BBC-1 piece

  • Meet the Mod Pods 12-2-2009
  • Heathrow throws the driver out 12-9-2009
  • Heathrow Central Terminal Area study by ATS
  • Video: What a round trip on the Heathrow PRT looks like
  • Video: ULTra demos multi-pod operation 12-24-2009

  • Daventry Town Council meeting: "hundreds" in "almost unanimous opposition" to District Council's PRT plan 1-15-2010
  • "Futuristic transport for Cardiff still on hold" 1-25-2010
  • Results of the Bath design competition 2-2-2010


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