Duke University Medical Center Patient Rapid Transit

Duke University Medical Center Patient Rapid Transit or Personnel Rapid Transit (PRT) was an automated people mover system located at the Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, in the United States.

[2] The PRT was notable for having cars propelled by a linear induction motor and suspended on a bed of compressed air[3] similar to a hovercraft.

The PRT had three driverless Otis Hovair vehicles[4] which had a hinged-window at each end for emergency exit.

The doorway for the station at Parking Garage II was permanently boarded up and turned into a wall.

Later variants have used the same air-cushion technology, but propelled the vehicles by wire cable, such as at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.