After decades in development, this smart pod network is about to hit the real world. It has the potential to revolutionize personal transport in cities. SkyTran is a monorail. It’s also a maglev, and ...

With increasing urban congestion, travelling to work has become a hassle in cities. But what if you could escape the road traffic and whiz to work in an elevated driverless pod? Sounds futuristic?

[Govtech.com] Tel Aviv may be the site of the first maglev PRT system [Personal Rapid Transit], which has been designed by skyTran, an American company headquartered in Mountain View, California. As ...

Traffic, congestion and related pollution in large cities could be problems of the past with the implementation of a futuristic, personal rapid transit system called SkyTran, according to the system’s ...

Imagine if, instead of wasting hours in gridlock, you could fly above it for the same price as a bus or subway ride. That's the idea behind skyTran, a self-driving monorail that would hover 20 feet ...

skyTran, the US company that is developing a Jetsons-style elevated pod powered by magnetic levitation, will not be holding a demonstration at the campus of Israel Aerospace Industries, as had been ...

Floating pods that run along a monorail 20ft in the sky may sound like the stuff of dreams – or 1950s sci-fi movies – but it’s coming to Tel Aviv with the help of NASA and a company called Skytran.

Imagine if instead of wasting hours in traffic, you could one day fly above it for a price only slightly higher than a subway ride. That's the idea behind SkyTran, a self-driving monorail designed to ...

Imagine zipping above the sidewalk crowds in a personal transporter pod suspended from a two foot wide cable propelled by a magnetic field. It’s not as far-fetched as you may think. A California ...