It must operate in all weather conditions and be fully accessible to the elderly and the handicapped. .
The system must be visually unobtrusive, generate no noise or air pollution, and require very little land. And it must be easy to install, easy to maintain, energy efficient to run, and have a service life comparable life to present modes of transportation.
Taxi 2000 is the product of 20 years of engineering effort. It has evolved from and builds on the work of earlier inventors, developers and engineers. The product of analytical studies and practical experience, every element of the design of Taxi 2000 is the result of minimizing cost per passenger-mile and maximizing accessibility and service to the public.
Taxi 2000's PRT have many advantages for individuals and the community as the following: take passengers directly to their destination without stopping at any other stations and operate on demand - not on a schedule where passengers have to wait for service. This opposes the other alternatives to the automobiles including the transit bus and the train. They offer safety, privacy, and personal security. PRTs are cost effective, primarily due to low capital and operating costs, are easily expandable as networks, can have different line speeds on various guideway segments, can include high speed arterial guideway segments, cargo vehicles in an indoor station, and are elevated and can't collide with ground-level automobile traffic and pedestrians. They are automated, eliminating the cost of drivers and allowing for improved scheduling, with more frequent and smaller vehicles, and hence smaller stations and lighter guideways. The lack of drivers allows you to relax and cuts down accidents. They require minimal disruption of roadways and businesses along alignments during system construction or expansion. PRT's also do not take up lanes of traffic on city streets, lower the levels of air and noise pollution, do not adversely impact the visual quality of the landscape, lower street-repair costs, make the use of land easily accessible, and operate at 24-hour availability.