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ADVANCED TRANSPORT GROUP

Transport for the Future

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"Most people treasure the enrichment that personal mobility brings to their lives...
- most are increasingly concerned about the problems caused by everyone else's car ownership."
(Foresight Panel Report on Transport)

ULTRA brings a new approach to the problem of urban transport. It has arisen from a re-appraisal of fundamental transport requirements. It is unlikely that modifications of transport solutions from the last century, i.e. cars and train/tram systems, can provide answers to the next. The ULTRA, (Urban Light Transport) system can best be described as an automatically controlled personal taxi system running on its own guideway with access to vehicles at frequent stations located around the city.

1. THE PAST AND PRESENT 2. ULTRA - TRANSPORT FOR THE FUTURE
3. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT ULTRA 4. INFORMATION ON THE RESEARCH TEAM
5. PUBLICATIONS 6. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
7. RESPONSE TO: DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED TRANSPORT POLICY 8. Paper - PERSONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT
9. Thesis: A Low-level PRT Microsimulation (requires Acrobat)

CONTACT ADDRESS

Professor Martin Lowson, Advanced Transport Group, University of Bristol,
Queens Building, University Walk, Bristol. BS8 1TR
Tel +44 (0) 117 928 7694, Fax +44 (0) 117 928 8883, E-Mail: Martin.Lowson@bristol.ac.uk

Maintained by Markus Szillat, E-mail Markus.Szillat@bris.ac.uk

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