Those who know me here, know that I am advocate for expanding the monorail system, or other forms of transit systems. I have a brand new refreshing idea that doesn't require building tracks!
I call it PGRT or Personal Group Rapid Transit. It would work like the PRT system found at MASDAR City. The PRT system at MASDAR City runs underground on specialized concrete roadways using battery powered electric golf cart-sized vehicles that operate on demand and a centrally controlled system guides it automatically to a user's requested destination.
For WDW, I propose something similiar using the roads already in place that currently cars and buses ride on. The vehicles would be driverless automated electric modified buses powered by battery and wireless charging stations located at stops and along the roads. The roads would be modified with communication systems and sensors for vehicle control and automation.
The vehicles would travel on dedicated lanes that would be converted from current lanes used for bus and car traffic. These lanes would be separated from other lanes using concrete dividers and would be fenced off from human and animal crossings.
To compensate for reduced motor traffic lanes, parking structures would have to be created at strategic locations in order to get people out of their cars and to transfer to the system.
The vehicles themselves could even be the current bus fleet converted into PGRT vehicles!
This system is cheap to build because it uses current infrastructure, which includes the roads and bus fleet. It is ideal for the environment because it's all electrical. It's fast and convenvient because central computer control guarantees that there is never a traffic jam. It's flexible because it allows for on-demand traffic routing to any destination on property.
Above all, it would be fun to ride, innovative, unique, creative, and it would be an attractive in and of itself worth alone seeing WDW for!
I call it PGRT or Personal Group Rapid Transit. It would work like the PRT system found at MASDAR City. The PRT system at MASDAR City runs underground on specialized concrete roadways using battery powered electric golf cart-sized vehicles that operate on demand and a centrally controlled system guides it automatically to a user's requested destination.
For WDW, I propose something similiar using the roads already in place that currently cars and buses ride on. The vehicles would be driverless automated electric modified buses powered by battery and wireless charging stations located at stops and along the roads. The roads would be modified with communication systems and sensors for vehicle control and automation.
The vehicles would travel on dedicated lanes that would be converted from current lanes used for bus and car traffic. These lanes would be separated from other lanes using concrete dividers and would be fenced off from human and animal crossings.
To compensate for reduced motor traffic lanes, parking structures would have to be created at strategic locations in order to get people out of their cars and to transfer to the system.
The vehicles themselves could even be the current bus fleet converted into PGRT vehicles!
This system is cheap to build because it uses current infrastructure, which includes the roads and bus fleet. It is ideal for the environment because it's all electrical. It's fast and convenvient because central computer control guarantees that there is never a traffic jam. It's flexible because it allows for on-demand traffic routing to any destination on property.
Above all, it would be fun to ride, innovative, unique, creative, and it would be an attractive in and of itself worth alone seeing WDW for!
