What happens if there is a breakdown?
As ULTra is expected to operate to aircraft standards of reliability, the possibility of breakdown is kept to a minimum. A monitoring system will diagnose weaknesses in a vehicle so it can be taken out of service to deal with them, before it breaks down. Breakdowns that do occur will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Because the vehicles are individually powered, the system is not brought to a halt by power failure. In the extremely unlikely event that a vehicle does break down a service vehicle will go and retrieve it immediately. The vehicle also has emergency exits and when no vehicles are travelling on the guideway it is entirely safe to walk on.
