Austin Personal Rapid Transit

It’s point-to-point. It’s on-demand. And it’s private. Three concepts that together make personal rapid transit stand above all other methods of mass transportation.

In the past, personal rapid transit or PRT was a pipe dream; a far-fetched idea whose time was somewhere in the distant future. But now, the concept is very real. Systems are being developed today that enable you to swipe a card reader to call a private vehicle to a transit stop, select your destination, hop in and be whisked away non-stop to where you want to go.

Austin Personal Rapid Transit, led by visionary entrepreneur Richard Garriott, wants to bring this new and intelligent form of mass transportation to the city of Austin. PRT systems are energy efficient and pollution free and studies show they are less costly to build and operate than other transit systems.

The Austin PRT team is dedicated to finding out if personal rapid transit makes sense for Austin and if Austin citizens will embrace an idea that will change the way we all view mass transit.