The year is 2033. A bleary-eyed woman heaves her suitcase from a shiny baggage carousel in Los Angeles International Airport. Rather than hailing a cab, she steps into a white, streamlined pod ...

Transportation planners are banking on a futuristic network of ecofriendly computer-automated pod cars as the next smart form of mass transit.... Personal Rapid Transit: Future Or Elevated Fantasy?

It was a science fiction apparatus from the ‘60s that is maybe — just maybe — coming to fruition soon. It’s no time machine, but the personal rapid transit system could at least help Jerseyans save ...

A novel kind of transit system, in which cars are replaced by a network of automated electric vehicles, is about to get its first large-scale testing and deployment. Two of these Personal Rapid ...