With the use of new technologies, interest in the next generation of small scale monorails (Personal Rapid Transport – PRT) has begun to resurge with the construction of a new, driverless system to ...

But then again, back in the 60s, oil was plentiful and the Earth was a degree or two cooler. Now, nearly 50 years later, there's a chance that instead of commuting in our spacepods, we might be ...

Google has invested $1 million in Shweeb, a New Zealand company that wants to make bicycle monorail pods to transport people around urban areas. The investment was part of Google's "Project 10^100," ...

, which is a system of personal pedal-powered monorail pods that Barnett hopes will one day become an alternative form of urban transit. "Cumbersome, jammed-up cities of today should be rendered into ...

The elevated road is simple and modular in design, economical to build as a result, and provides a fast, direct link between key traffic hubs, making it the perfect alternative for commuters traveling ...

Putting the pedal to the bubble, David Whitley takes a futuristic pod on a race around Rotorua's countryside. JARED shuts my glass cage and disappears behind me. I am suspended a metre or so above the ...

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Shweeb is an innovative form of alternative transportation that places people in plastic tubes so that they can cycle to their destination whilst hung upside down from a rail. It may sound crazy, ...

(CNN)-- Living in Tokyo, Japan, during the late '90s, Geoffrey Barnett found it extremely difficult -- even dangerous -- to ride his bicycle to work every day. "The traffic is incredible, and there's ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Due to the lack of resistance, it's easy to hits speeds of up to 50km/h on board a Shweeb. Craig ...

Agroventure’s world-class cycling innovation is set to feature on TV3’s Along for the Ride this Saturday, hosted by bike-nut-slash-radio presenter Simon Morton. Starting in North Otago and finishing ...

The Shweeb is a monorail for human-powered vehicles. It consists of two 200 m long overhead rail circuits that vary in height between two and four meters above the ground. Under the tracks hang high ...