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The barrier to transportation innovation is Federal subsides of operating losses of local government transit agencies, "institutional failures." The Morgantown PRT has demostrated for a century that grade-separated networks of self-driving cars are the solution to both urban traffic congestion and foreign oil addiction. Yet governments have blocked this innovation since Tricia Nixon opened the Morgantown PRT in 1972. JPods US Patent improves on the Morgantown PRT in two important ways (6,810,817):
Congressional Study documents "institutional failures." Link to 21 Presidential veto message that document Federal taxing to fund "internal improvements" is unconstitutional.
Tricia Nixon opened the first self-driving car network on Oct 24, 1972. She said it was “more fun than Disneyland.” The Federal highway monopoly has blocked further deployments of PRT in America since. That same highway policy caused the bankruptcy/abandonment of nearly half the freight railroads despite 400+ ton-miles per gallon efficiencies.
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Morgantown PRT opened in 1975 and has delivered 110 million injury-free passenger miles. By all accounts, the Morgantown PRT has been an absolute success. Link to a 1977 video of that success two years after the PRT opened. Below is a letter from the Mayor or Morgantown explaining the benefits PRT has provided to his city.
In response to the 1973 Oil Embargo, the US Senate asked DOT for mobility solutions to prevent hardships in future embargoes. The Office of Technology Assessment provided an answer to the Senate Committee on Appropriations in Automated Guide Ways and Personal Rapid Transit (PB-244854). An independent audit in 2010 indicates the network pays for itself every 5 years. The Office of Technology Assessment study resulted in the conclusion that "PRT has the highest potential service level and may have the highest patronage level of all AGT [Automated Guideway Transit] systems." The also study accurately predicted what would be its own failings:
Link to 1977 Morgantown PRT video.
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