Personal Rapid Transit: A Feasibility Analysis In Lucknow (original) (raw)

An ever-increasing growth in the urban areas have put up a new challenge in the domain of Urban transportation. The complexity of the problem is enhanced by the limitations in the option available, space available, their interrelationships and also the ease with which these options serve to cater to the present requirements. Meanwhile as the world is becoming smaller and smaller, the urgency to communicate, travel and transport faster is growing by leaps and bounds. Technology on one hand is acting as a catalyst in this process and on the other hand is providing with solutions to cater to this process. Urban transportation with all its complexities and challenges has attracted the interest of planners and engineers to seek solutions. One such solution is PRT (i.e. Personal Rapid Transit) which has proved promising as a solution to the problem stated above. This paper discusses PRT with respect to technology, its prospect in a developing nation like India and also the feasibility to provide it, if possible, in Lucknow. The paper covers extensively all the aspects of this new means of Urban Transportation and also maps the transportation requirements of Lucknow with a prospective solution with the help of this technology.