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ULTra (rapid transit)
ULTra (Urban Light Transit) is a personal rapid transit system developed by the British engineering company ULTra Global PRT (formerly Advanced Transport Systems).
The first public system opened at London's Heathrow Airport in May 2011. It consists of 21 vehicles operating on a route connecting Terminal 5 to its business passenger car park, just north of the airport.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ultraglobalprt.com/wheres-it-used/heathrow-t5/ )〕 ULTra is in contention to develop an urban system in Amritsar, India projected to carry up to 100,000 passengers per day using 200 vehicles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ultraglobalprt.com/wheres-it-used/amritsar-india/ )〕
To reduce fabrication costs, ULTra uses largely off-the-shelf technologies, such as rubber tyres running on an open guideway. This approach has resulted in a system that ULTra believes to be economical; the company reports that the total cost (vehicles, infrastructure and control systems) is between £3 million and £5 million per kilometre of guideway.〔("ULTra FAQ" ), ULTra PRT site〕
==Inception==
The system was originally designed by Martin Lowson and his design team, Lowson having put £10 million into the project. He formed Advanced Transport Systems (ATS) in Cardiff to develop the system, and their site was later the location of its test track. ULTra has twice been awarded funding from the UK National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).〔("Martin Lowson, Advanced Transport Systems Ltd awardee profile" ) NESTA milestones〕 Much of the original research on ULTra was done by the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Bristol during the 1990s. Recently the company renamed itself "ULTra PRT Limited" to better reflect its primary business, and moved its corporate headquarters to Bristol.
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