Personal Rapid Transit: The Future of Public Transportation Allowing Cities to Move and Breathe
About this audiobook
What Is Personal Rapid Transit
Personal rapid transit (PRT), also known as podcars or guided/railed taxis, is a form of public transportation that utilizes small automated vehicles and operates them on a network of specially built guideways. Other names for this type of transportation include personal rapid transit (PRT) and guided/railed taxis. Automated guideway transit (AGT) is a kind of system that also comprises bigger vehicles and extends all the way down to smaller subway systems. PRT falls under the AGT category. When it comes to the paths that it takes, it leans more like personal public transportation systems.
How You Will Benefit
(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:
Chapter 1: Personal rapid transit
Chapter 2: People mover
Chapter 3: Automated guideway transit
Chapter 4: Passenger rail terminology
Chapter 5: Cabinentaxi
Chapter 6: Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit
Chapter 7: ULTra (rapid transit)
Chapter 8: Headway
Chapter 9: SEA Underground
Chapter 10: Cable Liner
Chapter 11: Vought Airtrans
Chapter 12: Ford ACT
Chapter 13: Alden staRRcar
Chapter 14: ROMAG
Chapter 15: Computer-controlled Vehicle System
Chapter 16: Public transport
Chapter 17: Krauss-Maffei Transurban
Chapter 18: Dashaveyor
Chapter 19: Minitram
Chapter 20: List of automated transit networks suppliers
Chapter 21: Unbuilt Rosemont personal rapid transit system
(II) Answering the public top questions about personal rapid transit.
(III) Real world examples for the usage of personal rapid transit in many fields.
(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of personal rapid transit' technologies.
Who This Book Is For
Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of personal rapid transit.
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About the author
Fouad Sabry is the former Regional Head of Business Development for Applications at HP in Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (SEMEA). Fouad has received his B.Sc. of Computer Systems and Automatic Control in 1996, dual masterâs degrees from University of Melbourne (UoM) in Australia, Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 2008, and Master of Management in Information Technology (MMIT) in 2010.
Fouad has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology and Telecommunications fields, working in local, regional, and international companies, such as Vodafone and IBM in Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Fouad joined HP Middle East (ME), based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2013 and helped develop the software business in tens of markets across Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (SEMEA) regions. Currently, Fouad is an entrepreneur, author, futurist, focused on Emerging Technologies, and Industry Solutions, and founder of One Billion Knowledgeable (1BK) Initiative.
