New transportation design uses ideas from the roller coaster industry

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The question everyone is trying to answer in Austin is: How do we make the traffic situation better?  Over the past several years, the alternative modes of transportation have ranged from urban rails, to commuter trains at the University of Texas, to the use of gondolas.
Austinite Curtis Brown believes he has a creative way to help people move along the freeway and city streets without using any wheels at all. He has designed what he calls the Personal Mass Transit, or