April 2025

From the President

Dear Peter, we continue to be encouraged by the increasing momentum in the ATN industry. New technologies and projects continue to emerge. Many have been in development for years. Makes you wonder how many we do not know about.

PS: We love you. Please join ATRA/pay your dues/volunteer.

Together we can fix public transportation!

Best regards,

Peter Muller, ATRA President

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EDITORIAL

Greater Denver Transit Presentation

A recent presentation to Greater Denver Transit provided some new insights. To provide background, we polled about a dozen ATN suppliers (of whom about a half responded) with results indicating that there are presently about 84 ATN projects in various stages of development around the world: 6 in public operation; 12 being implemented (in design and/or construction); and 66 being planned. The illustration shows the continents involved.

The presentation audience was comprised mainly of public transit users. Their anonymous responses to various questions are tabulated below.

The presentation can be viewed here.

NEWS

New PRT Train: Preparations to run PRT rail from New Film City to Jewar Airport, 14.6 KM track to be built

There are plans to run a Public Rapid Transit (PRT) from the new Film City located in Sector-21 in the Yamuna Authority area to the Noida International Airport. In the first phase, only a 14.6 km track will be built for this.

San Jose officials call for more analysis of airport connector proposal

The City Council has asked for a more extensive study - financed without new public funds...

San José City Council Unanimously Approves Next Phase of San José Airport Connector Project

San José Connection Partners, a consortium including Plenary Americas, Webcor/Obayashi, and HNTB, and Glydways today announced that the San José City Council voted unanimously to move the Diridon–Airport Connector into Phase 2a of project development.

Raised compact trains installed on rail lines, wave of future?

LAKEPORT >> Hytrak, is a new, elevated rail system that can be implemented along existing rail or utility easements without requiring adjustments for pedestrian or vehicle interaction, is now in development by Hytrak Rail Corporation.

Not sure if this qualifies as an automated transit network.

New transit plan for Atlanta airport

The Personal Rapid Transit Program uses self-driving vehicles to avoid traffic around the airport.

The above links are to articles that appear relevant to advanced transit but no guarantee is made as to their accuracy and no verification of the integrity of the associated websites has been made.

Editorial comments are in italics.

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