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While there is quite a lot of news about projects in India in this issue, there is reason to believe many of these will not come to fruition. However, the growing interest in India and the rest of Asia (as well as the middle east) is, I believe, cause for optimism. The need for urban ATN is widespread and it is clearly one of the best solutions available. Sooner or later somebody will figure out how to pull everything together to make one of these large projects work.
Once this happens it will be interesting to see what follows.
The next ASCE Automated People Movers Conference is in Tampa, Florida April 29 - May 3, 2018. You are encouraged to submit an abstract on ATN
here.
As always, enjoy reading!
Best regards,
Peter Muller, P.E., ATRA President
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 The History of the Advanced Transit Association (ATRA)
Chapter One by Dr J. Edward Anderson
The Formation of ATRA
An AGT Society. A major outcome of the 1975 International Conference on Personal Rapid Transit was a decision to form what we called an AGT (Automated Guideway Transit) Society. In the words of Dr. Larry Goldmuntz, who introduced the idea:
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SA firm s ees potential for elevated-track solution in everything mining to public transport
South African company
Milotek will later this year start
construction of a fractional rapid transit (FRT)
system at a private
coalmine in Mpumalanga.
 Forget self-driving cars: Here's how driverless trains are moving ahead
When it comes to automated vehicles, all the talk is about cars. But the Dubai Bluewaters project shows how driverless trains could overtake them. Read more...
 Hyperloop Transportation Technologies with 'efficient, cheaper' model eyes Indian market
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, which competes with Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One, will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday with a "cheaper and more efficient" model than its fellow American competitor. Read more...
 Hyperloop One revealed the future of transportation at IGNITION 2016
The Business Insider IGNITION 2016 conference provided invaluable insights from some of the top minds of our time.
One innovator among the many IGNITION speakers was entrepreneur and venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar, who has invested in companies such as Uber and Airbnb through his company Sherpa Capital.
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 Six states, including Rajasthan and Maharashtra, line up for pod taxi links
Rajasthan is planning a pod taxi link between Ajmer station and Ajmer Sharif Dargah, Maharashtra has similar plans to connect Bandra and BKC in Mumbai
New Delhi: At least six states are in talks with companies that build personal rapid transport systems (PRTs) to operate pod taxis, futuristic driverless vehicles that ply along a pre-determined course, a central government official said. Read more...
 Major autonomous vehicle contract in Dubai awarded
Dutch technology firm, 2getthere, will deliver a new automated vehicle system in Dubai that will link the new waterfront living destination of Bluewaters with the city's network of metro stations.
The innovative new transport system will have a capacity of 5,000 people per hour per direction, with the automated vehicle connection between Bluewaters and the metro set to become the largest of its kind in the world. It is considered an example of the future of autonomous transport solutions. Read more...
 Magnovate Transportation Inc. Evaluates Strategic R&D Cooperation with Partners in Europe - Expands Its Relationship with Rapid Venture Partners
Edmonton, Canada, March 17, 2017 --(PR.com)-- Magnovate Technologies is commercializing a proprietary magnetic levitation technology, Magline, with the vision of transporting people and goods as seamlessly as information travels on the internet. Read more...
 NITI Aayog's Grand Plan To Revolutionise India's Public Transport Network
India's premier government-sponsored think tank, NITI Aayog, has come up with a new policy that aims to change the face of India's public transport with a combination of electric vehicles, as well as upcoming technology such as the Hyperloop and SkyTrans. Here are the key ideas from this new plan: Read more...
2getthere awarded transport system deal in Dubai
Dutch technology firm
2getthere has been awarded a contract to deliver a new automated vehicle system in Dubai that will link Bluewaters with the city's network of metro stations.
The new transport system will have a capacity of 5,000 people per hour per direction, and will feature 25 driverless group rapid transit (GRT) vehicles capable of carrying 24 passengers each.
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Dubai set to get major robot bus network
The company that created the futuristic driverless pods operating underneath Masdar City in Abu Dhabi has secured a contract for a much larger, driverless bus network connecting Bluewaters Island to Dubai's metro.
The joint venture 2getthere Middle East, between the Dutch automated transport firm 2getthere and the Abu Dhabi-based United Technical Services (UTS), is to deliver a 2.5km-long guided network from the Nakheel Harbour & Tower station over the new ramp on to Bluewaters Island.
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 BLUEWATERS CONTRACT AWARD
Dutch technology firm 2getthere, a world-leading developer of sustainable mobility solutions, has been awarded the contract to deliver a new automated vehicle system in Dubai that will link new waterfront lifestyle destination Bluewaters with the city's network of metro stations. The innovative new transport system will have a capacity of 5,000 people per hour per direction, with the automated vehicle connection between Bluewaters and the metro set to become the largest of its kind in the world and is considered an example of the future of autonomous transport solutions. Read more...
 What a driverless world could look like
What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of our biology to design the transit systems of the future. In this forward-thinking talk, preview exciting concepts like modular, detachable buses, flying taxis and networks of suspended magnetic pods that could help make the dream of a dynamic, driverless world into a reality. Read more...
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