Fastransit's GRT Vehicle Animation

FASTRANSIT’s unique capability to provide electronic instantaneous switching will allow urban mass transit systems to offer better service on high-volume routes; it will also allow utilization of smaller vehicles in either Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) or Group Rapid Transit (GRT) (seen here) configurations, with dramatically shorter headways than current transit systems require. The result will be more frequent and convenient service, lower overall travel times, higher passenger volumes per hour, and lower operating costs.

Fastransit's GRT Vehicle up Close

Currently, urban mass transit consists of trains of multiple cars carrying up to several hundred passengers per train and running with headways of several minutes, at best. The requirement for each train to stop at each station along the way results in longer origin-to-destination transit times. Off-peak headways are considerably longer because of the equipment and labor inefficiencies at lower ridership densities.