ULTra ("Urban Light Transport") is a personal rapid transit system from Advanced Transport Systems Ltd, a company based in Cardiff, Wales. The system was conceived by Martin Lowson and his design team, Lowson having put £10 million into the project. There are not yet any commercial installations of ULTra, but a pilot project is under construction at London's Heathrow Airport, being developed by BAA in partnership with ATS.

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  • ULTra ("Urban Light Transport") is a personal rapid transit system from Advanced Transport Systems Ltd, a company based in Cardiff, Wales. The system was conceived by Martin Lowson and his design team, Lowson having put £10 million into the project. There are not yet any commercial installations of ULTra, but a pilot project is under construction at London's Heathrow Airport, being developed by BAA in partnership with ATS. Running tests began in December 2008, and the planned start of operation is in late Spring 2010. To reduce fabrication costs, the ULTra system uses largely off-the-shelf technologies, such as rubber tyres running on an open guideway. This approach has resulted in a system that ATS believes to be more economical than a design requiring custom technology. The company reports that the total cost of the system (vehicles, infrastructure and control systems) is between £3 million and £5 million per km of track. The company also claims that their design works best as a system with a 5 mile radius in a densely populated area and designers say that the technology can handle cities with populations of less than 1 million — for larger cities, it could be used as a network link to larger mass transit systems; suitability for larger applications remains untested and no wide-scale personal rapid transit system has yet been built. Advanced Transport Systems Ltd has twice been awarded funding from the UK National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Much of the original research on ULTra was done by the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Bristol during the 1990s.
  • ULTra est un PRT, autrement dit un moyen de transport collectif léger permettant de se déplacer à la demande et sans arrêt intermédiaire dans de petits véhicules indépendants, en se déplaçant sur un chemin dévolu à ce moyen de transport. C'est le deuxième système de se type à être mis en place pour un service commercial dans le monde, après le Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit de l'université de Virginie-Occidentale (en), en 1975. Conçu par la société Advanced Transport Systems Ltd basée à Cardiff, et situé dans l'aéroport de Londres Heathrow, il sera mis en service commercial fin 2009.
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  • ULTra ("Urban Light Transport") is a personal rapid transit system from Advanced Transport Systems Ltd, a company based in Cardiff, Wales. The system was conceived by Martin Lowson and his design team, Lowson having put £10 million into the project. There are not yet any commercial installations of ULTra, but a pilot project is under construction at London's Heathrow Airport, being developed by BAA in partnership with ATS.
  • ULTra est un PRT, autrement dit un moyen de transport collectif léger permettant de se déplacer à la demande et sans arrêt intermédiaire dans de petits véhicules indépendants, en se déplaçant sur un chemin dévolu à ce moyen de transport. C'est le deuxième système de se type à être mis en place pour un service commercial dans le monde, après le Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit de l'université de Virginie-Occidentale (en), en 1975.
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