Photographer/Creator

Chet Smolski, Rhode Island College

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Date

1981

Description

This photograph, taken from a car on the Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit system, show’s the unique tracks that the automated cars move upon. Each car is equipped with rubber wheels and receives energy and information from a rail in the center. This center rail also serves to guide the direction of the car.

Notes

http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/transit/Morgantown/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Transit

Rights

This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Subject Headings

Personal rapid transit -- Local transportation -- West Virginia -- Morgantown; Transportation -- Local transit -- West Virginia -- Morgantown;

Country Name

United States of America

Region Name

West Virginia

City Name

Morgantown

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Keywords

traffic flow, urban transportation, university towns, Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit

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