PRT's Wacky Business Hype.
Investors beware! Before you invest in a PRT company, ask to see their Risk Factors Document. Don't believe their phoney baloney.
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"....evangelize wealthy individuals".
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/lessonslearned.htm
Wealthy technologists could fund the first PRT system. An effective advocacy strategy might be to evangelize wealthy individuals. What skills are required to evangelize powerful people? Who is the best person in your organization to make these kinds of contacts and presentations? Do you need to recruit someone with this specialty?
"Digital Mobility"
http://www.cities21.org/SilverBullet.htm
New mobility is a "new transportation approach that focuses on pairing clusters of smart technologies with existing transportation options to create a coordinated, intermodal transportation system that could substitute for the traditional auto." We combine web applications, phone support, and cellular location tracking applications (using GPS) into a comprehensive service to provide comprehensive door-to-door mobility.
About Cities21
Cities21 is a dedicated group of professionals conspiring at the nexus of:
transit villages, real-estate in-fill, workforce housing, new mobility, natural
capitalism, ITS-4-TDM, high-touch, and automated transit. We catalyze quantum
efficiency gains at major activity centers, improving twenty-first century
cities. The challenges are great, but the synergies between these concepts
enable viral, large-scale change. www.cities21.org.
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"It
will ultimately be a practical freight carrier"
http://www.ecotopia.com/news/article.asp?id=1103&ssectionid=14
Draft Business Plan
Umunum News Room source: Umunum Chapter of CPRT
•• July 25, 2000 •• SolarQuest® iNet News
Service •• PRT BUSINESS PLAN - 7/11/00
PARTICIPANTS - Charles Adelberg, Jeral Poskey,
Dennis Manning, Bob Williams, and Dave Walworth
I. Introduction - Status of Lockheed-Martin is unknown, They have no money;
in any case, we will look for it.
II. Worth of Taxi 2000 - appraised at $10 M ten years ago; a lot of work
has been done since then, so we estimate $20 M.
Eva;luation is based on venture (sic). It needs public buy-in.
III. What will work according to CRA
A. Taxi 2000 exists, and UM owns technical rights which must be
close to public domain now, i.e. 18 years old. The real
value is in the software which JEA has developed in last
10 years.
B. Create a new company. (History - RTYA had $40M, Stone & Webster folded
when we needed them most, so contractor became Raytheon with whom jea had
been associated before.)
What model should we adopt?
1. Boeing builds (Co. #1), AA, UA, SWA fly them (Co’s 2-n)
@. Gorilla - CPRT-U does it all.
C. Role of Implementer
1. first stage investment (?Angel)
2. Assemble starting team -what expertise needed? management
team, subcontractors. (Local manufacturers would be a strong plus were they
in Watsonville, and that is where
we looked for the public buy-in.)
3. Franchise agreements
4. Second stage funding
5 Implmentation
a. Test site
b. first loop - tak to neighbors, customers, et al.
IV. To be included -
A. Private investors
B. Owners of software and hardware
C. Prime Contractor .
D. Operator
E. Public Agencies
F. Interested copmpanies -
1. Venture capitalists
2. Angels
3. Real estate
4. Corps who need workers who can neither afford housing nor
commute to work conveniently.
V. Arguments for :
A, Present system(s) are demonstrably failing
B. Enlaarging them will not work
C. You need PRT
D. It will be profitable not only to the investors but the
beneficiaries who free up land, can commute, and can attract
customers.
E. It will ultimately be a practical freight carrier
F. Royalty rights - technology, marketing, sales, construction
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“This is disruptive technology,”
“This is disruptive technology,” said Edward Anderson, standing beside a red, egg-shaped PRT prototype in the Taxi 2000 Corporation shop in Fridley.
http://www.blaine-slplife.com/2003/June/26vehicle.html
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