A new form of electrically-powered driverless travel – the ULTra (Urban Light Transport) Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system – is to be tested at
Advanced Transport Systems (ATS), a
An ULTra vehicle network has the same capacity as a motorway lane (1800 vehicles/hour), yet uses a quarter of the land and costs a tenth to produce.
And, while conventional forms of public transit require passengers to collect in groups until a large vehicle, scheduled to travel on predetermined routes, arrives, 95% of ULTra passengers will have a waiting time of less than 1 minute, even at peak times.
The network system also has the same capacity as a motorway lane (1800 vehicles/hour), yet uses a quarter of the land and costs a tenth to produce.
Professor Martin Lowson, Chief Executive of ATS, said: “This investment will allow us to complete the final production and commercialisation phases of the project.”
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