Podcar City 2023

July 2022

From the President

Dear {First Name}, ATRA is sponsoring and helping to organize the next Podcar City Conference scheduled for Lisbon in March 2023. The focus will be on car free cities enabled by ATN, and not on self driving small vehicles using regular roads and streets. The conference looks very promising and includes a number of innovative improvements. Mark you calendar and keep tracking it. Lisbon is a great city to visit!

As always, enjoy reading!

Best regards,

Peter Muller, ATRA President

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Podcar City Conference, Lisbon, March 2023

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Telangana govt urges Centre to provide regulatory framework for PRT corridor at earliest

New Delhi: The Telangana government, which is planning to develop a Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) corridor of 10 km in Hyderabad, on Thursday urged the Centre to provide quality specifications and a legal framework at the earliest for the commencement of the proposed project.

Guest column by Matthew Kennedy: Personal Rapid Transit might be way of the future

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It’s a given that government construction projects run long and exceed cost projections. Still, this is one for the record books – the Purple Line was originally estimated to cost $5.6 billion and open this spring.

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