Change of Address

Change of Address

As of February 1st 2getthere has relocated offices. The new office is only 40 meters removed from the old offices, but does provide better facilities, with additional meeting rooms and storage space. The new address is Proostwetering 26a (instead of 16a). All other contact details [...read more]

Dutch Royals travel in style

Dutch Royals travel in style

On Monday January 9th Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, along with Crown Prince Willem Alexander and Prinses Maxima, attended a round-table conference at Masdar City. The visit started with a trip with the 2getthere supplied PRT system towards the Masdar Institute. Coverage by [...read more]

Rivium Resumed

Rivium Resumed

On Monday December 5th the operations of the ParkShuttle at business park Rivium, in the City of Capelle aan den IJssel, were resumed. After a significant delay resulting from the construction works adjacent to the track, we are happy the service to the passengers has [...read more]

Masdar Year 1 Review

Masdar Year 1 Review

On November 27th the first year of Operations and Maintenance of the PRT system at Masdar City was concluded. Over the year the system carried over 230.000 passengers, including VIPs such as His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Crown Prince of Abu [...read more]

Passenger 200.000

Passenger 200.000

On the early morning (7:38hr) of October 20th the Masdar PRT application carried its 200.000th passsenger since the opening on November 28th, 2010. Nearly His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, in the company of His Highness Sheikh [...read more]

Masdar VIP Visit

Masdar VIP Visit

His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces visited Masdar on October 19th. Accompanied by His Highness Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, National Security Adviser and Vice Chairman of the [...read more]

Market@Masdar Again!

Market@Masdar Again!

Masdar City announced ‘The Market@Masdar City’, a family-focused street fair and organic market, will be organized again on October 28th. The market offers Abu Dhabi residents a glimpse at life in one of the world’s must sustainable, urban developments. The event is free to the [...read more]

Wall Street Journal: Green City PRT

Wall Street Journal: Green City PRT

The Wall Street Journal of Monday September 12th featured 2getthere’s PRT system (with picture) as part of the broader article ‘How to Build a Greener City’. The interesting article details options ranging from garbage collection, small wind turbines to transportation (walking, biking and Personal Rapid [...read more]

Podcar Conference Stockholm

Podcar Conference Stockholm

The 5th Podcar City Conference (PCCC5) will be held on September 6-8, 2011 at Stockholm Waterfront Conference Center. Conference Presenters are the Institute for Sustainable Transportation (IST), Advanced Transit Association (ATRA) and Kompass, a network for local authorities interested in Podcars (PRT). 2getthere will be [...read more]

Taiwan Agent: Land Network

Taiwan Agent: Land Network

As a result of the publicity for the system and the operations at Masdar City and Rivium, more and more people world wide are getting interested in the concept of Personal Rapid Transit. The mode is seen as a way to increase the catchment area’s [...read more]

PRT an enticing reason

PRT an enticing reason

The International Council on Innovation in Higher Education (ICIE) visited  Abu Dhabi and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in June 2010, with professor Maureen Sheehan Paparella (Director of Information Technology) making a follow up visit in March 2011. A report on the trip [...read more]

Marketable Success

Marketable Success

The first edition of the Market@Masdar on April 29th was a marketable success. During the day it is estimated that between 6,000 and 8,000 residents of Abu Dhabi visited the sustainable development. The PRT system carried nearly 3,600 passengers that day, greatly exceeding the envisioned [...read more]

Smart Mobility for Better Cities

Smart Mobility for Better Cities

CityMobil is celebrating the end of its five year programme on the development and demonstration of innovative transport technologies for cities with a major international conference in La Rochelle (France), a city well known for pioneering innovative sustainable mobility solutions. Results from the three large-scale [...read more]

Stazione Futura

Stazione Futura

Stazione Futuro is the exhibition that tells of the Italy of the years to come. A hypertechnological future full of surprises, yet very close to us and already largely ready to be told. This is because, shut away in important university research centres and company [...read more]

Construction at Rivium

Construction at Rivium

The construction works of the new P+R facility at metro Station Kralingse Zoom, also the starting point of the ParkShuttle service towards business park Rivium, are entering the next phase. As a result of the works using the track of the system, the system will [...read more]

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