Thomas Pumpelly (Email) 2.3“PRT” - Personal Rapid Transit:
In 1975, the first continuing, large scale, personal rapid transit system (“PRT”), was designed and implemented through a partnership between Boeing and West Virginia University. Today, the system (“WVA PRT”), routinely moves as many as 18,000 persons a day to, and from, various campus locations and downtown Morgantown, West Virginia. A standard WVA PRT car seats 9 with standing room for 12 more and travels at a speed of 55 mph or less averaging approximately 31 mph between 5 stations. The system costs approximately $31 Million per mile in present day dollars and requires constant, costly maintenance.