We in PRT International, LLC offer ITNS − our version of High Capacity Personal Rapid Transit (HCPRT). It synthesizes decades of research, development, design, and planning. While he was with Taxi 2000 Corporation, the lead designer of ITNS, Dr. J. Edward Anderson, led the design of a full-scale, fully automated, linear-induction-motor powered vehicle and the 60-ft section of guideway on which it ran flawlessly for thousands of rides, i.e., he designed a system that worked exactly as intended.
The Mission of PRT International is to supervise the marketing, planning, manufacture, and deployment of ITNS systems that will minimize cost, energy use, material use, land use, and pollution while providing a high level of service safely, reliably, and in all reasonable weather conditions without the need for a driver’s license. We work in cooperation with many other companies and educational institutions. The knowledge needed to build public works such as bridges, roads, rail systems, sewers, water systems, dams, buildings, sports arenas, theme parks, vacation resorts, shopping malls, etc. is widespread and is taught widely. We look forward to the day that ITNS is added to this list.
The Business of PRT International is to commercialize ITNS by marketing, planning specific systems in cooperation with consulting firms and clients, software development and maintenance, specification development, product improvement, training, solving institutional problems, coordinating the work of suppliers, and franchising the building of ITNS systems in locations around the world.
Our Next Step is to test our vehicles, guideway, and control systems on a half-mile oval test track. This test system will have one off-line station and at least three vehicles, which is sufficient to prove all engineering functions of the system. The purposes of the test system are
- To get the system running and tested as quickly as possible.
- To verify capital and operating costs.
- To prove safety, reliability, and ride comfort.
- To determine the insurance rate.
- To correct errors before the first application.
- To develop proven plans and specifications.
- To train engineers and technicians.
We have taken into consideration that any of our potential investors will have a specific application in mind and will be concerned that the test program will delay revenue operation. It need not delay revenue operation because the planning of the first application will take about as much time as the test program. We have sufficient experience to be confident that planning for the first application can start immediately and that the system will work as engineered, subject to possible improvements and refinements that may result from the test program. We will select the site for the test system immediately upon receipt of the necessary funding and will begin installing foundations, posts, guideways, and the station and maintenance system much more quickly than would be possible in a real application. We will thus be able to design and build the first application with a proven engineering team. The cost of the physical hardware for the test system is a great deal less than the cost of the necessary engineering, which in any case is needed. Moreover, the test facility will be a useful proving ground for many years.
We will be seeking an investor who sees the wisdom of financing the most experienced PRT design team in the world. At that time we will prepare all necessary documentation for that purpose. The biographies of the core team can be found here and a complete listing of Dr. Anderson’s transit-related publications can be found here. His motivations for deciding midcareer to stop what he had been doing to work on PRT are given in a lecture: “Birth of a breakthrough in Urban Transportation”. His paper “15 Rules of Engineering Design” has been critical to designing a breakthrough transit system. Every reasonable step is being taken to assure that the needed experience will survive any one individual. Details will be provided to the investor.
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