Welcome to America’s one and only personal rapid transit (PRT) system, serving downtown Morgantown and the WVU campus. Though other transit systems may claim they are PRTs, Morgantown’s is the ...

In 1975, a novel transportation system called Personal Rapid Transit, or PRT for short, started operating in Morgantown, W.Va. It was supposed to usher in a new age of public transit. It didn't.

It introduces Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) as an innovative urban transportation solution tested in Morgantown, West Virginia. PRT is a driverless, electronically controlled system designed to ...

Though the concept has been around for half a century, only five completed systems in the world can be reasonably defined as personal rapid transit: those in Morgantown, West Virginia, which ...

The promise of personal rapid transit systems ... It's not a question of feasibility or testing in Morgantown, W.Va., where the first PRT in the U.S. has been in motion at West Virginia University ...

The Morgantown PRT network is neither personal ... that it will become a prevalent technology in the future. “Personal rapid transit is an idea whose time heretofore has never come.

This video explores three unique yet failed futuristic transit concepts: the Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) in West Virginia, the Gateway Arch’s unique elevator system in St. Louis ...

Personal rapid transit — a mass transportation network ... Last month, I visited the city of Morgantown to check out West Virginia University’s PRT, a five-station network that connects ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University is spending nearly $4 million on extra buses for public transportation between campuses this semester after its Personal Rapid Transit system ...

But in 1975, it already had. Sort of. West Virginia University had just unveiled its Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system, a series of computer-driven cars that puttered their way ...