In 2010, the Department of Transportation issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) as to enhancing airline passenger protections. I filed a comment as to one of the subjects under discussion: whether and how airlines should be required to disclose fees through GDS’s, and what might happen if the DOT imposed such a duty without airlines contracting in advance to obtain such service from GDS’s.
Personal Rapid Transport
This page indexes my writings about Personal Rapid Transport.
- Personal Rapid Transport at Vectus, Inc. Also available as Harvard Business School Case 910-010. I have prepared a teaching note to aid instructors in the teaching of this material. Copies are available from Harvard Business Publishing (at no charge to qualified educators who create a free educator account) or directly from me (by email request).
- Environmental Benefits of Personal Rapid Transport – HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day. April 20, 2011.
- Towards Improvement in Singapore’s Transportation Efficiency and Environmental Impact – submission to the National Climate Change Secretariat of Singapore. October 29, 2011.
Personal Rapid Transport at Vectus, Ltd. (teaching materials)
Edelman, Benjamin. “Personal Rapid Transport at Vectus, Ltd.” Harvard Business School Case 910-010, November 2009. (Revised September 2010.) (Featured in Working Knowledge: Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?) (educator access at HBP. courtesy copy.)
Personal Rapid Transport (PRT) vehiclesoften called “driverless taxis”sought to combine the best characteristics of cars, taxis, and trains, while adding features unavailable in any existing transportation system. Like cars and taxis, PRT vehicles carried small groupsoften just a single passengerwith no need to wait for a shared vehicle to arrive or for others to board. Yet PRT followed train systems in using an exclusive right of way that avoided delays from other traffic. Where would such systems be most useful? Could system designers successfully compete with well-established networks of trains, buses, cars, and roads?
Teaching Materials:
Personal Rapid Transport at Vectus, Ltd. – Teaching Note (HBP 910024)