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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

Driverless pods, gliding above city streets using a network of elevated guideways. This is SkyTran – but is it the future? SkyTran wants to do away with train schedules and central stations to develop ...

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 ...

Air taxis of the near future aren't exactly straight out of "The Fifth Element," but California-based SkyTran's pilot program for an aerial mass transit system could be a big step toward proving the ...

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 ...

skyTran™ Inc., a NASA Space Act company headquartered at the NASA Ames Research Center, announced the closing of its Series A investment by Innovation Endeavors, Eric Schmidt’s leading Silicon Valley ...