Long, slow commercialization of the Internet, 1926-2007.

Major investor awareness:

• • Bill Gates (founder Microsoft): “When it happens, AVs will change transportation as dramatically as the PC [personal computer] changed office work.”

• • Vinod Khosla (co-founder, Sun Micro): “It will be the principal mode of transit in all cities. Its cheaper than a private car. It’ll be faster than a private chauffeur-driven car. I could go through lots of reasons.”

• • 2025: Glydways wins “Public Transportation Technology Solution of the Year”

• • 2025: MARTA in Atlanta, my 2011 TEDxAtlanta

• • 2025: Glydway, Miami

• • 2025: Glydways strategic partnership with Abu Dhabi Investment Office

• • 2025: Forbes: Glydways Plans To Revolutionize Mass Transit In Abu Dhabi And Beyond

• • 2026: Dubai plans to launch self-driving electric vehicles ‘like train in a cycle lane’

• • 2026: Glydways in Tokyo

• • 2026-02-26: Hyderabad to Launch Pod Taxis for Short Trips

• • 2026: Russel McMurry, GDOT “We have to think about how we connect people and places to where they want to be…. The higher capacity of Personal Rapid Transit, that people can have mobility options that they don’t have today.”

• • 2026: Glydways Locks $170M, Chases $250M More for Pod Transit

• • 2026: Glyways $170 million
  • 2026-05: Summary of ATL launch of Glydways. 
  • Dubai Prime Minister’s Office on Glydways

News stories

• • Arlington, TX (at min 40:34), TX mayor intent to build a gondola system, SwyftCities.

• • Physical Internet®: Packet switching people and cargo in cities.

• • Praetor Capital 2021 estimate of PRT capital value of $31-58 billion.

• • It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a new way to travel in Macon

• • Sugarland, TX

• • Time Magazine

• • Glyway and Susuki announcement

• • Forbes, Glydways Has A New Vision For Public Transit

• • MSN, Road Congestion Keeps Ruining Your Life? Why Let It, When There Is A Glaring Solution

• • Seven Cities in the World Where You Can Ride an Aerial Cable Car

• • Jeral on The Building Culture PodCast

• • Bill Gates invests in Glydways: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/transforming-mass-transit-small-evs-144221516.html

• • Praetor Capital 2021 estimate of PRT capital value of $31-58 billion: https://www.jpods.com/documents/PRT_Opportunity_Praetor_Capital_2021.pdf

• • SwyftCities, Time: https://time.com/7094115/whoosh-queenstown-gondola/

• • SwyftCities: https://www.wfaa.com/article/life/north-texas-aerial-gondolas-transportation/287-875e4c1f-376f-4bc7-9178-c8499ad71d8d

• • SwyftCities: https://starlocalmedia.com/friscoenterprise/news/frisco-plano-two-of-five-dallas-area-cities-interested-in-aerial-gondolas-transportation-system/article_168181a2-3807-11ef-ae6a-3fee6ff29965.html

• • SwyftCities: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/2024/06/27/uber-like-elevated-cable-cars-could-be-dfws-next-attempt-at-tackling-traffic/

• • SwyftCities:https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/gondolas-texas-cities-19548140.php

• • JPodsTX: https://jpodstx.com/nctcog/

• • JPods Iraq: https://jpods.com/iraq/

• • Law in Massachusetts: https://baystatesunway.com/s-1993/

• • Documentary: https://jpods.com/rb

Demand

• • Ontario $56 billion in congestion

• • Excellent Indian video of the failure of transit