Ultra-Light Rail Transit: The Value Engineered LRT

MTS combines Lightweight Electric Trams, and Fast Construction Techniques, creating a total transit solution that meets the social environmental and fiscal needs of 21st Century communities.
On/Off Rail capability streamlines routes with one vehicle across multiple modes, reducing transfer and transit times while attracting ridership with a total system solution for about 1/3 the cost of a typical LRT.

Fiscally Sustainable
MTS will arrange private or 3P financing and remove budgetary limitations, so you can expand transit on your schedule.
What makes the system low cost when others are so expensive?
ULRT benefits from three features that combine to shatter the capital barrier.
- We use vehicles that are light enough to operate on existing road-beds, and the cost of laying a massive concrete foundation is removed.
- ULRV’s use flash charging to eliminate the overhead pantographs and catenary wires that are an enormous cost to engineer, fit into the built environment, and construct.
- Our on/off rail technology eliminates the need for switches. The on-road capability means the vehicles can pass each other, other traffic, go door to door, climb hills and deal with snow.
The first and last mile problem, solved
The ULRT system uses different vehicle sizes. A stop to stop vehicle which is 40 to 65 feet long and a door to door vehicle which is 24′ long. They share the same rails but the door to door goes onto side streets for most pick ups and drop offs.
On Off Rail Technology = Fast Construction
Our on/off rail technology eliminates the need for switches, and allows the vehicles to use most existing infrastructure. The lightweight tram vehicles operate on rails set with helical piles. This avoids moving underground utilities and pouring massive concrete foundations.
It’s About Time
The long time to operation for LRT’s is due to the need to plan for and construct massive rail foundations, pantograph poles and wires, dedicated signage and signals, crossings at intersections, and overpasses and underpasses all while dealing with underground utilities. ULRT systems fit the existing infrastructure and can be planned, budgeted, financed, engineered, constructed, and operated within a few years.
