Go Vuba. Glide Above Traffic
Vuba gives your city a smoother, stress‑free way to move, with quiet electric podcars gliding above traffic on their own guideways. Everyday trips become faster, safer, and cleaner for everyone.
New freedom in the city: Everyone needs to get around quickly and confidently, whether it is commuting, shopping, or meeting friends. Today’s choices often mean congestion, delays, and frustration instead of freedom. Vuba replaces that daily grind with a simple, reliable ride that just works.
An urban oasis: By cutting noise, pollution, and traffic on the streets below, Vuba helps transform busy corridors into safer, more walkable, more welcoming places. Streets feel calmer, air feels cleaner, and people can enjoy their neighborhoods again.
Meet the next evolution: This is smart urban mobility designed around people, not just vehicles. Vuba is the next evolution of city transportation—and an easier, more enjoyable way to move through your day.
- New freedom in the city: Everyone needs to get around quickly and confidently, whether it is commuting, shopping, or meeting friends. Today’s choices often mean congestion, delays, and frustration instead of freedom. Vuba replaces that daily grind with a simple, reliable ride that just works.
- An urban oasis: By cutting noise, pollution, and traffic on the streets below, Vuba helps transform busy corridors into safer, more walkable, more welcoming places. Streets feel calmer, air feels cleaner, and people can enjoy their neighborhoods again.
- Meet the next evolution: This is smart urban mobility designed around people, not just vehicles. Vuba is the next evolution of city transportation—and an easier, more enjoyable way to move through your day.
We Get You There Quickly
At Vuba, we envision a future where people can move around their communities easily, like the hummingbird zips quickly through the forest. Where people thrive with no worries of traffic congestion, pollution or accidents. Where businesses can flourish because customers and employees arrive effortlessly. Where human equality and access to opportunities are supported through the democratization of mobility.
Our Communities Deserve A Better Alternative
We owe so much to trains, buses, and automobiles - but last century’s solutions are no longer serving us well.
Around the world, our urban communities have become chaotic, noisy, and difficult to navigate. Urban congestion causes frustration, lost time and reduced quality of life. Increasing traffic related injuries and deaths plague the population, while unsustainable consumption and pollution plague our planet.
Thankfully, The Next Evolution Of Urban Life Is Blossoming Before Our Eyes.
Smart mobility, focused on “human-centered” transportation design, will help us get where we need to go next without crowding the way there.
- Democratizes mobility, providing access to jobs, schools, entertainment and opportunity for all.
- Complements existing transportation channels, helping to clear unnecessary city blockages.
- Opens up ecologically oriented urban planning opportunities by removing weight from our ground traffic load.
How It Works
Introducing
Vuba
We provide quick, enjoyable and affordable Automated Transportation for your community. Driverless electric vehicles called PodCars move travelers smoothly and silently along aerial guideways… Lifting passengers up, above traffic on the streets.
5X More Reliable
Count on Vuba’s transportation network to operate flawlessly 24/7 in all weather conditions.
1/4 The Cost
Compared to conventional public transportation operating and capital costs.
Twice As Fast
Quick, express travel from origin to destination at speeds up to 60mph.
Zero Accidents
With over 200 million passenger miles logged worldwide, ATN systems have caused zero injuries or fatalities.
What We Do
Project & System Implementation
Vuba turns next-generation transit from concept into reality through real-world projects, delivered with partners whose Automated Transit Network technology is already proven in operation. Our role is to package that technology into affordable, high-impact systems that cities, airports and campuses can say “yes” to.
Because Vuba designs networks that typically deliver more coverage and more stations at significantly lower capital cost than traditional transit, projects are structured to pay for themselves through fares and related revenues. That means communities can gain a modern, automated system without relying on subsidies or straining local budgets.
Vuba leads the early feasibility work, ridership analysis, and technical studies needed to secure project approvals and awards. Once a project is approved, it is financed through a mix of debt and equity from transportation infrastructure investors, allowing delivery at scale.
With a compelling “no-subsidy” model, proven technology partners, and a growing pipeline of projects, Vuba is steadily advancing a new wave of Automated Transit Network implementations in forward-looking communities.
Vuba System Enhancement
Vuba takes proven, in-service Automated Transit Network technologies and makes them better—refining vehicle design, improving guideway appearance, boosting speed and capacity, enabling seamless ridesharing, and elevating the overall passenger experience.
By building on operating technology instead of starting from scratch, Vuba shortens delivery timelines, reduces technical risk, and focuses investment on what riders and cities value most: comfort, reliability, efficiency, visual appeal, and an attractive, well-integrated guideway in the urban landscape.
The Next Evolution of Transportation
As Vuba advances through each project, the goal is simple: deliver a practical, near-term future for urban mobility that people can ride today, not just read about tomorrow. By combining successful project development with enhanced, already-operating Automated Transit Network platforms, Vuba helps cities thrive, commuters move effortlessly, and the environment benefit.
Vuba’s integrated approach upgrades proven systems—improving vehicle and guideway appearance, increasing speed and capacity, and enabling smoother ridesharing—so communities can adopt innovative, efficient transit with lower risk and faster timelines. By transforming urban mobility in this way, Vuba is not only improving how people move; it is helping build healthier neighborhoods and a better-connected world where modern mobility and urban progress go hand in hand.
SkyGlyde — Technology Partner
Proven in public service since 2024
SkyGlyde — Technology Partner
Proven in public service since 2024
Meet The CEO
Peter Muller
Co-Founder / CEO
Peter Muller, CEO, professional civil engineer/planner, President of Advanced Transit Association, Committee Member of ANSI/ASCE/T&DI 21-21 Automated People Mover Standards, President of the international Advanced Transit Association (ATRA) and past chairman of the Airport Consultants Council (ACC). He has specialized in transportation planning and engineering with responsibility for over 200 mostly federally-funded projects over four decades. He has been involved in numerous Automated Transit Network (ATN) development projects over the last 20 years and is a world-leading expert on all aspects of the ATN planning, design, operation, and development process.
Meet The CEO
Peter Muller
Co-Founder / CEO
Peter Muller, CEO, professional civil engineer/planner, President of Advanced Transit Association, Committee Member of ANSI/ASCE/T&DI 21-21 Automated People Mover Standards, President of the international Advanced Transit Association (ATRA) and past chairman of the Airport Consultants Council (ACC). He has specialized in transportation planning and engineering with responsibility for over 200 mostly federally-funded projects over four decades. He has been involved in numerous Automated Transit Network (ATN) development projects over the last 20 years and is a world-leading expert on all aspects of the ATN planning, design, operation, and development process.
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ATN Project FAQs
Who funds a typical urban ATN project?
Projects that have more than about 50 stations and passengers paying a fare, will typically be self-funding and privately financed with no subsidies required for capital and operating/maintenance costs.
Projects where passengers ride free will also be privately financed but the owner will have to pay an availability fee that will typically be much lower than for any other technology like automated people movers.
The high level of service provided can imply a system intended for the wealthy / elite. How will lower income people afford it?
Detailed financial models have proven that ATN systems can operate successfully (and potentially at a profit) while charging fares that are comparable to bus fare. ATN allows significant cost reductions due to being driverless, electric, and up to 4x more efficient than even electric cars. We promote a tiered fare structure wherein Premium fares provide nonstop travel and no ridesharing with strangers. Economy fares require ridesharing and may involve a few intermediate stops.
How can ATN systems be protected from graffiti, litter and various disorderly behaviors?
All modern ATN systems have in-station and on-board video monitoring. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based video interpretation can automatically alert a controller to problematic behavior, and in-vehicle speakers/microphones facilitate direct communication between controllers and passengers. In the worst cases, passengers can be declined future travel or vehicles can be re-directed to a station where law enforcement is already waiting.
ATN Project FAQs
How do I get a ride?
Use an app on your smartphone (or a kiosk) and simply enter your destination. An automated electric vehicle will arrive to pick you up, usually within just a minute or two! You can ride in comfort, non-stop for about the same price as bus fare (or taxi fare if you choose a private ride).
How can my trip be non-stop in a crowded city?
Our main control system knows where every vehicle is, where it’s going, and where it will be a while into the future. Every trip is “pre-calculated” by the control system, and each vehicle is given a “reservation” on the track (guideway) along the entire route. This ensures there is a clear path for you from your origin to destination, without the need for stopping along the way. (If you selected a “shared ride,” you may make a planned stop or two along the way to pick up additional passengers.)
Can automated podcars really be safe?
Over the past few decades, early versions of automated podcars have already logged over 200 million passenger miles without causing any injuries or fatalities. This is a far better track record than any other mode of ground transportation! Next-gen Automated Transit Networks (ATN) are utilizing much better sensors and control system tech than was available in early podcar systems, so safety and reliability will improve even more as we move forward.
Why have I not seen this before?
There are several automated podcar systems operating in the US and around the world, mainly located on airports or campuses. Typically with any emerging technology, it takes time for the technology, cost and need to intersect in such a way that the concept really takes off. We are now at that point! We have the right technology available at an attractive cost, and there is urgent need in every major city in the world.
Isn’t this the same as a monorail?
Definitely not! Monorails are typically heavy vehicles operating on massive elevated tracks – basically a train operating on a very long (expensive!) concrete and steel bridge.
In contrast, our smaller, more personalized vehicles are built using very lightweight aerospace materials, allowing them to be produced at a low cost and to operate with up to 4x greater fuel efficiency than an electric car! Our podcars move quickly and quietly above the streets on a small, slender guideway that weaves elegantly throughout the urban cityscape. Since our system operates on-demand, your ride/route is fully customized — no inconvenient bus/train schedules to deal with and no need to stop at every station along your route!
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