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The system connects the three Morgantown campuses of West Virginia University (WVU) and the city's downtown area. Developed from the Alden staRRcar and built by a consortium led by Boeing Vertol , the driverless system was a government-funded experiment in PRT systems.
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in West Virginia, Mountain Line expanded its communication through social media, and implemented social distancing restrictions on its buses. [12] WVU closed the PRT system for over a year beginning in March 2020, instituting its own substitute bus service.
Morgantown PRT is still in continuous operation at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, with about 15,000 riders per day (as of 2003). The steam-heated track has proven expensive and the system requires an operation and maintenance budget of $5 million annually. [ 49 ]
Jun. 24—MORGANTOWN — Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin announced separately on Monday that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded $6.4 million, through Congressionally ...
During the 1970s, the U.S. Department of Transportation built an experimental driverless personal rapid transit system in the city, citing the area's variable seasonal climate and geographic elevations as factors in testing the technology's viability. The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) has been in use since 1975. University students ...
Lastly, Dellenger shares findings from his journey to Morgantown to ride the West Virginia University PRT system. (1:43) Deion Sanders drama with local media (19:32) Michigan names Harbaugh ...
West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States.Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser, and clinical campuses for the university's medical school at the Charleston Area Medical Center and ...
Their publication in early 1968 sparked off PRT development projects at dozens of companies around the world. In spite of intense interest in the early 1970s, political winds shifted and today there is only one HUD-inspired PRT system in commercial operation, the Morgantown PRT in West Virginia.