# Passenger transport (PRT)

> Personal Rapid Transit with Y-Rail – driverless passenger transport on rails with patented passive switches that make networks as dense as a road network possible.

Source: https://www.y-rail.at/en/anwendungen/prt/

Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is a concept for driverless passenger transport on rails.

Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is a concept for driverless passenger transport on rails. Passengers are picked up on demand and taken to their destination. Known systems, however, are built in a way that rules out complex rail networks comparable to a road network. The reason is the complicated and failure-prone switches of these railways.

Y-Rail, with its patented passive switches, does not have this problem. Put simply, the road network can be lifted a few metres into the air and replaced by the Y-Rail network. Road safety, travel speed and environmental performance go up, while traffic noise and infrastructure costs fall sharply.

Y-Rail PRT opens up a promising outlook on a whole new level of mobility. At its core is flexible, autonomous door-to-door travel that makes for comfortable journeys and a better future. Because the Y-Rail system takes up little space, it fits in seamlessly alongside existing infrastructure.

Today's transport system has been at its limits for a long time. Better vehicles and local infrastructure upgrades push these limits, but always at a cost far too high for such small gains. Our transport system is old and not up to the challenges of our time.

It is time for a radical change. It is time for Y-Rail PRT!

## Goals

### Mobility

Travel several times faster, open up rough and previously inaccessible areas, and build infrastructure faster.

### Environment

Less pollution and noise, lower energy and resource use, and less sealed ground. Better and more efficient use of renewable energy.

### Society

The highest possible safety in passenger transport (reaching Vision Zero). Infrastructure that bridges cultural and structural divides. Independent travel for people with reduced mobility.