MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) — As part of Mountaineer Week at WVU, the university is celebrating the anniversary of its Personal Rapid Transit System, or PRT, which is turning 50 this year.

Dubbed ‘the ride of the future,’ WVU's PRT first opened in 1975 and was the first large-scale automated guideway transit system in the country. With 67 cars and five stations across the Morgantown area, WVU students, faculty, and the general public are able to avoid campus traffic and go straight from one station to another.

Jeremy Evans, the director of transportation and parking at WVU, spoke with 12 News about what makes the PRT unique.

“That’s what really sets the PRT apart and makes it unique and much more efficient than other transit systems is that on-demand service, so we’ll take you from where y

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