Masdar City PRT Personal Rapid Transit

Masdar City is a zero carbon city being built near Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The plan for this city is to get rid of personal cars and use a PRT system located under the sidewalks for all transportation needs. Even cargo and deliveries are to be loaded on these pod cars to make it to the restaurant or facility.

Right now Masdar City is still in its infancy so there are only two stations of this PRT system making it more like a horizontal elevator, but hopefully in the future there will be many stations located throughout the city with passengers making quick, non-stop journeys to any of these stations.

[tcarnal]

Great to see it's still function like it was intended

i was part of the Team that mounted the wireless system that controls the cars
Seeing it in your video gives me joy

[transitdude]

I would ride this just for the heck of it! Nice video

[rainze]

1:30 whoever thinks it's fast plz see the bottom right corner it's says '4x'

[JunHamamura]

imagine what would happen when the demand increases...
super cool concept though.

[johnwang]

It's a shame that the system was reduced to just a couple of stations. They say that the costs of the undercroft to separate the guideways from pedestrian traffic was the reasons why the program was cut but the whole Masdar plan was not to dig into the ground but to elevate the landscaped pedestrian exterior above ground level both for cooler winds and to avoid the costs of tunneling the automated guideways.

[TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

Very nice video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.

[aaronroffman]

Forget Heathrow, the Morgantown system actually has several stations. It's also capable of operation outdoors without a covered track, and it was built decades prior

[AsifMuhammad]

I am working here at Masdar city now. This cool tech is almost desert and nobody is using it.

[Chrnan]

1:28 oh, that isn't very fast


3 seconds later:

[YariQue]

“Morning Mr. Freeman. Looks like you’re running late...”

[alfianodamanik]

I had a dream that I had that in my basement and it goes all the way to my school and nearby mall. That way I dont have to wake up early and face the traffic

[nuclearwinter]

Yes. This PRT project makes total sense an will be a stellar success. Just like Masdar City. LOL

[cactus]

"OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS, HAL"...

[artnc]

Shared scooter or bicycles would be a much more effective solution. Once you create many destinations, things get orders of magnitude more complicated - dealing with paths that cross each other, balancing car availability based on unpredictable demands, additional charging needs for longer routes, etc

[buddyclem]

Great video! Much different than the bumpy, noisy PRT system in Morgantown, WV, USA. But you have to love the WVU PRT, because they were the first in the world.

[TeddyBarefoot]

This looks like something out of a pokemon game.

[timothyrichey]

I fell out of my bed when they suddenly increase the speed

[mountainous_port]

Very beautiful idea. My full hopes and appreciation for this concept. Dubai, this is what you should be making, projects with good human impact, not those none sense tall skyscrapers they dont have any meaning.

[donnahanscom]

Oh, It's Looks Like a Fun Ride!

[bushyconn]

Pretty good. But significantly noisier than the system at Heathrow.