Personal Rapid Transit in New Zealand - Future Transit Now

The author was invited to speak at North Park College as the 1994 Distinguished Alumnus Lecturer on his role in the development of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), the first genu­inely new urban transportation system to ap­pear in a century.  This Chapel Lecture de­scribes his relevant technical experience, his search for meaning, his need for interdisciplin­ary project work, and the extraordinary circum­stances and timing that led him to PRT as a new career and that carried this work to the point where it has been taken over by a major corporation and a major urban transportation authority.  The lecture ends with a challenge to young people to aim high and seek a noble cause of fundamental importance to mankind.