Intelligent Grouping Transportation
Intelligent Grouping Transportation (IGT) is an innovative new concept in mass public
transportation which is the result of some considerable lateral thinking.
IGT is a remarkably flexible and efficient passenger transport system that is vastly superior to
existing modes of public travel. Analysis indicates that, due to its efficacy, IGT can cut road
traffic levels by an astounding factor of 4 - that is to say 75% - and as a consequence, reduce
vehicle exhaust air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by a comparable degree.
IGT is the beautifully simple answer to the critical problems of traffic congestion and air
pollution that now afflict virtually every major city in the world. An IGT system that can
provide a large urban area like London or Los Angeles with 10 million passenger journeys a
day will cost less than £1 billion to implement, which is extremely cheap by transport budget
standards. IGT operates by means of a fleet of road vehicles called taxibuses. A taxibus is
nothing more than a small minibus fitted with a simple communications gadget that allows
the taxibus driver to receive instructions from a controlling computer system which
orchestrates the taxibus fleet. The clever idea behind IGT is the way it intelligently groups
passengers with compatible itineraries into the same taxibus vehicle.
For full details of IGT, please consult: www.taxibus.org.uk This web site has been specifically
set up to promote the concept of IGT and explain the nature of taxibus travel.
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