Railway seen to ease Baguio traffic woes

BAGUIO CITY: A Filipino-designed Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) System may soon be the alternative mode of public transportation to ease traffic and address pollution problem in this city and La Trinidad, Benguet, according to a study by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the University of the Philippines - National Center for Transportation Studies (UP-NCTS).

The Metals Industry Research and Development Center (MIRDC) of the DOST and UP-NCTS completed the feasibility study on the deployment of a locally developed mass transportation system technology considered probable under a Private-Public Partnership (PPP) and Build–Operate–Transfer (BOT) Scheme.