This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. For more than 75 years, engineers and designers have held up ...

Hyperloop, the futuristic transport tube, has yet to make its debut on a full public track — but it’s already headed to one of the United States’ most iconic museums. The vacuum-sealed pod transit ...

(TNS) — One company thinks the future of Madison’s public transit system is 20 feet above city streets in tiny solar-powered pods. Transit X, a Boston-area company, claimed it could revolutionize city ...

A Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) vehicle, or driverless electric pod car in UAE Over the last several months a handful of startups have dropped hundreds or thousands of electric scooters on the ...

Baltimore says it needs a world-class mass-transit system. A California company says it has the answer: high-speed, magnetically levitated, egg-like pods designed to ferry commuters above the ...

The promise of personal rapid transit systems, or PRTs, is enticing: elevated electric transit that delivers the convenience of an automobile without the pollution or congestion. The systems use what ...

Singapore will have an autonomous electric transit system on the road by the end of this year. The country’s SMRT public transit system announced a partnership today with the Dutch firm 2getthere for ...

Someday in the not too distant future, passengers may be getting to and from the San Jose airport on a curious-looking, driverless shuttle the size of a Smart car. San Jose, meet the pod car. Rather ...

The third-generation Group Rapid Transit (GRT) vehicles run on electricity and operate autonomously - even in inclement weather - using artificial landmarks for navigation. In a joint press release, ...

As Boston starts to think about revitalizing a neighborhood street in Dorchester, transportation advocates are pitching the idea of bringing solar-powered, personalized pods to the area to ship ...

Self-driving cars might not solve the problem of rush-hour traffic, and in cities with some of the worst commutes now–like L.A., where each driver wasted an average of 102 hours stuck in traffic last ...

Competitors are racing to answer Elon Musk’s call to create a capsule that can carry commuters at the speed of sound. M.I.T. unveiled its entry on Friday Editor’s Note (06/14/18): Scientific American ...