Automated Guideway Transit, published in 1975, found the Morgantown PRT was a solution to the hardships of traffic and the 1973 Oil Embargo. It also found that government “institutional failures” had blocked urban transportation innovation for “four to six decades (aside from some relatively minor cosmetic changes)…
Secaucus Efforts
In 2014, the Town of Secaucus adopted the 5x5solar standard. Funds to build were withdrawn with NJDOT blocked crossing their Rights of Way. NJDOT ignored the mandate of the New Jersey Legislature, see the following.
Attempts by New Jersey’s Legislature to break these “institutional failures”:
“c. It is in the State’s economic interest to investigate new types of service which may improve the usefulness and integration of existing platforms, provide fast, inexpensive travel options, reduce capital costs of projects, and reduce pollution from motor vehicle travel. Personal Rapid Transit (hereinafter “PRT”) is one such technology currently being made available.”
“d. According to the Federal Transit Administration, average capital cost per two-way mile for heavy rail is $150 million, and for light rail is $70 million. For operating cost per passenger mile: heavy rail is $1.20, light rail is $1.80. However, PRT has the potential to cost 37 much less than heavy and light-rail applications, carry high capacity, be flexibly located, and require much less physical “footprint,” potentially reducing easement impact for currently scheduled projects. PRT studies have shown a capital cost of about one-tenth the cost of existing rail technology, with similarly low operating costs.”
