ARRK Europe’s Basildon Technical Centre has completed the design and build of 22 ULTra vehicles ready for the final stages of testing of the world’s first Personal Rapid Transport (PRT) system at Heathrow Airport Terminal 5.

All 22 vehicles have been engineered, prototyped, tested and manufactured at ARRK’s Product Development Workshop in Basildon. Phil Griffiths, the General Manager at Basildon’s Technical Centre, said, “As the chosen vehicle partner for Advanced Transport Systems’ revolutionary PRT system, our in-house workshop has provided the focal point for ULTra over the last six years. Our trusted engineering applied their global expertise and knowledge to develop the first ULTra prototypes and have meticulously hand-built all of the vehicles ready for their final commissioning at Heathrow.”

ARRK’s Product Development Workshop supports the company’s extensive product and component engineering team by offering customers access to advanced development and build capabilities. This scalable and flexible service accommodates low-volume assembly and supply, bespoke/mule vehicle build, rig and fixture design and build, competition vehicle engineering, prototype component manufacture and instrumentation and test.