Guideways

Extensions of the guided technology include the Guided Light Transit and Translohr systems, although these are more often termed 'rubber-tyred trams' as they have limited or no mobility away from their guideways.

Ford Research proposed a dual-mode system called PRISM. citation It would use public guideways with privately purchased but certified dual-mode vehicles.

Guideways There is some debate over the best type of guideway.

Masdar's system has been limited because it attempted to dedicate ground-level to PRT guideways.

Most energy use occurs on highways, so small, elevated guideways would inductively power highway use and recharge batteries for off-guideway use.

Most of these systems used elevated guideways, which were much less expensive to deploy than underground tunnels.

Smaller cars would mean less weight at any given point, which meant smaller and less expensive guideways.

The experimental prototypes slid up a convert-tall vertical steel launch tower for a maximum sliding length of convert in three guideways, one for each wing tip and one for the lower tip of the ventral tail fin.

The low weight of PRT's small vehicles allows smaller guideways and support structures than mass transit systems like light rail.

Thus, in central cities, where heavy travel volumes could justify investment in guideways, vehicles would be far too small to meet the demand.