Videos
Video players and codecs :
The files are coded in mpeg4 (xvid & divx) wmv (Microsoft), and mov (Apple)
Use vlc media player or Media Player Classic - home cinema (both are free)
- or upgrade your video player e.g. with
K-lite megacodecpack
GTS
- A General Transport System
Bubbles and Beams - Solar
Bubbles and Beams 1
Bubbles and Beams 2
Skytran
You Tube
video quicktime
PRT simulation in
Trondheim, Norway (2008)
This JAVA based simulation is made by student Erik Grønvold under the
supervision of Trond Andresen
(as a illustration of Skytran). Set the speed ('hastighet') to 5 x and hit 'start'. Then you will
see motion.
SkyWeb Express
System Animation
(13 mb)
(watch this one to get a grasp of the simple
logic of the system technology)
KARE News TV report
(11 mb) - June 23rd 2003
Boarding
(7,7 mb real)
Scaled Down
Alpha Model
(5,4 mb)
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For up to date videos :
www.SkyWebExpress.com
Historical Videos
PRT history (7 mb wmv format)
In the 1990s..
after winning several competitions for innovative transit solutions,
Taxi2000 was a partner with Raytheon Company
in building the
PRT2000 prototype
and the
Marlborough PRT test track outside Boston USA.
Chicago RTA (Regional Transit Authority) intended to install a
system at Rosemont,
by the new Chicago O'Hara airport, but the final Raytheon design failed to get
approval.
Rayheon PRT2000
(32 mb)
PRT2000 clip
(11 mb)
Cincinatti Taxi2000 control system
animation
(2,1 mb)
Around 1980
+/-
the core people of Taxi2000 were
US representatives of the Cabinentaxi PRT technology,
developed in Germany (which also Raytheon looked into extensively).
After its close, Taxi2000 was founded and developed the concept further,
e.g. by including the main guideway characteristics of the 2nd German test track
at Dortmund :
www.H-Bahn.de , i.e. an acronym for "hanging
track", finished 1984
H-Bahn (110 mb DivX, shot in 1995) clip (7 mb)
- The 3rd German test project of the 1970s was
M-Bahn, an urban maglev system in
Berlin)
See also the
Cabinentaxi website
CabinenTaxi test track
in Hagen, Germany, 1972 (1969→1983)
(34 mb)
CabinenLift hospital
track in Bremen, Germany, 1977→∞
(28 mb)
Various
Spårbilar - kommer dom i tid (ca 5 min)
You Tube video quicktime NRK-Norway (2007-11-15)
test track videos
2002 2003 2004 (ca. 3 mb each )
Test track in Uppsala, Sweden (2007)
Animations from Fornebu, Oslo
(when the test track was being planned there in 2002-2005)
Austrans have made several good animations to show how their PRT vehicles fit into :
- road and street
traffic
(3 mb)
- a shopping
centre
(1,6 mb)
- a railroad
station
(1,5 mb)
Austrans' PRT vehicles contain up to 9 persons, and are therefore 3 times larger than Skyweb Express, but the animations are nevertheless elegant and illustrative.
Cut from Discovery Channel's program
"Subways in America": Cybertran (8,8 mb)
Sweden
PRT 'Taxibane' TV
report
and interview with Göran Tegnér
on Sweden's national channel SR2, Oct. 30th 2004 (8,4 mb)
Vectus test track in Uppsala,
Sweden (8,9 mb)
Norway
TV Report on SporTaxi PRT model ABTV (11 mb )
using Austrans' video clip -
on the Norwegian local Asker og Bærum TV, Oslo - June, 1999
TV2 Report on Sportaxi PRT project
on the Norwegian national TV2 and TV Norge channels - March, 2000
Lars Endre Kjølstad's video clip
PRT Fornebu
with SWE cabins
(8 mb in wmv format) (2004)
A smaller version (1,9 mb)
Monorail
Tokyo Monorail
(14,3 mb - DivX format)
(from National Geographic - Tokyo Teleport Town)
'Scare videos'
(noisy, ugly, - dangerous for other travellers and/or area-demanding)
Light rail in
Montpelier, France
(0,9 mb, Quicktime format)
Traditional Monorail
in Seattle (14 mb
- 'starring' Sylvester Stallone)
Cartoon :
The Simpsons : Marge vs. The Monorail (26 mb)
Older material - from the
SporTaxi project
in Oslo :
Illustrations -
Documents
Contact
E-mail: post
innotrans.net
www.InnoTrans.net
