People Mover
Engineering Services for Autonomous People Movers
DEP provides comprehensive engineering and product development services for autonomous people movers, helping clients address mobility challenges such as congestion, transportation gaps, and environmental impact in high-density areas like airports, campuses, and smart cities. With capabilities spanning concept design, system architecture, simulation, digital prototyping, controls integration, and safety validation, DEP supports every stage of development to ensure reliable, compliant, and future-ready mobility solutions. Leveraging over two decades of engineering excellence, we deliver innovative, efficient, and scalable autonomous transit systems that meet evolving transportation demands.
DEP’s Commitment to Innovation in people mover Technology
At Detroit Engineered Products (DEP), we continuously refine our methods to
Optimize Efficiency
Enhance Safety
Ensure Sustainability
Our superior engineering solutions and services position us as a key player in the
Project
DEP People Mover Technology Applications
Key Distinguishers
DEP's Tech Leadership in Deep Tech Product Development
DEP ‘s tech leadership in the journey from concept to pre-production in the process of creating deep tech products. We can efficiently streamline the whole product development process with industry-leading in-house skills such as styling, design engineering & manufacturing.
Transforming the Product Development Process for Faster Innovation
DEP’s transformed product development process can develop a new vehicle or a derivative of a current platform in record time, maximise carryover parts and processes, satisfy new performance criteria, and provide modified technology data.
Key Recognitions of DEP
Innovative and Sustainable Design: DEP’s People Movers are a visionary solution for eco-friendly urban transportation. Powered by lithium batteries, charged through solar energy, these podcars align with Masdar City’s Private Rapid Transit (PRT) project and its green mobility goals.
Comprehensive Engineering Expertise: DEP engineers managed the entire lifecycle of the people mover development, including design, virtual validation optimization, prototyping. This holistic approach ensured the seamless integration of functionality, sustainability, and cutting-edge technology.
Rapid Turnaround and Full-Scale Prototyping: DEP delivered a full-scale Proof of Concept (PoC), complete with interior trim and styling, in just 10 weeks. This achievement highlights DEP's commitment to innovation, speed, and excellence in engineering solutions.
DEP's People Mover Development Capabilities
Design and Development
Styling
Packaging
Integration
CAD – Complete CAD Data Management and Coordination & CAE
Product Derivative Development
Performance and Support
Performance Engineering
Validation Coordination
Supplier Integration
People Mover
From Concept to Validation
Explore the People Mover prototype to see how DEP delivers end-to-end product development services
DEP Advantages
DEP’s product engineering team set out to develop a Personal Rapid Transit from Complete Engineering from concept to Pre-Production, Consistent Packaging, Effectiveness, and Production process, depending on the specification brief. In ten weeks, the team completed a full-scale proof from concept to the final output
Customer Benefits
Parts Analysis for Product
Rapid scaled model performance confirmation/ correlation
Detail part breakup and study
