What kind of deployment strategy would be most feasible, economical and desirable for MicroRail?
It is not economically feasible to place PRT stations at close enough intervals for them to be within easy walking distance of large numbers of people. Hence, a dualmode system that allows far more people to use the system, serves much higher numbers of people. Thus a dualmode system will be able to generate much greater revenue to repay its initial cost than a PRT system alone. However, it does not have to be an either-or situation. There is no good reason that we cannot have systems that provide both PRT and dualmode within the same system and over the same guideway. As a matter of practical economics and politics, we are far more likely to be able to build systems that start as pure PRT and grow them into combined dualmode systems as the network is built out to cover a larger area. Starting as a PRT system with growth into a combined system solves the chicken-or-egg problem by first providing a guideway network grown as a PRT system an then adding dualmode cars as the system reaches
