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ABU DHABI / EMIRATES BUSINESS
The driverless Masdar Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system at carbon neutral Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, functioned at over 99% efficiency since it began services 6 years ago. The remarkable achievement is indicative of the system’s quality technology, dynamic safety features and robustness resulting in almost no failures or delays, zero collisions & accidents since launch.
The PRT opened to the public in 2010, operates on a 2km loop servicing students and visitors from the parking lot to the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. The transport system reached 500,000 passengers and 1,000,000 passengers in Nov 2012 and May 2014 at a daily average of 692 and 787 people respectively. Since May 2014, the system saw an increase of 175% in passenger traffic to reach 2,000,000 transported passengers in Nov 2016. The Masdar PRT system transported its 2 millionth passenger one week before the commencement of the 7th year of operations.