1. Comparative Visualization
Personal Rapid Transit and Conventional Transit

2. Personal Rapid Transit Conventional Transit
T-Pods wait at station for people

3. Personal Rapid Transit Conventional Transit
Simulation shows one conventional transit vehicle transporting 21 people every ninety seconds.
The PRT system transports the same number in the same time in 11 T-Pods. Average occupancy is 2.

4. Personal Rapid Transit Conventional Transit
While T-Pods are boarding 10 other T-Pods go by without stopping.
Average T-Pod headway shown is 4.4seconds.
Average T-Pod headway through the station is 8.3seconds.

5. Personal Rapid Transit Conventional Transit
If one T-Pod is delayed, others keep moving
Station rate shown = 820 passengers/hr.

6. Personal Rapid Transit
Conventional Transit

7. PRT/Transit Visualization
Headway
4 seconds
90 seconds
Ave. occupancy
2.0 21
Station volume
840 per hour
Guideway volume shown
1,600 per hour
For light rail the guideway volume could be higher than the station volume since a train could arrive and leave with passengers on board not using the station.
A bus system could have similar characteristics and additional buses could pass a stopped bus.