Canter Aperture PeopleMover

The Canter Aperture PeopleMover is an underground "personal pod-style" subway system that runs in Cantersfield, Armonia to Canter Aperture facilities located off-site of the National Headquarters Campus. The system is similar to the Tomorrowland People Mover at Walt Disney World.

Planning & Construction
In the summer of 2016 Canter Aperture began planning an underground metro system to link all of its facilities in Cantersfield. This was in response to a complaint lodged by Arskies at the beginning of 2016, demanding that Canter Aperture reduce its hovercraft usage to shuttle its employees between its off-site facilities and it's headquarters, as it was cluttering Cantersfield airspace in and around M.R. Franklin Airport. At the end of the summer of 2016, the Construction department decided against using a traditional metro system, as the low and fluctuating passenger count would make the system inefficently timed. Instead, the team settled on a "pod-system" by transporting passengers in personal pods to their destination. The system was inspired by Disney World's Tomorrowland PeopleMover transportation system, and operates almost the same way.

Operation
The PeopleMover works as a "point to point" system rather than running along a network or line. Passengers enter a station and walk to a holographic terminal to select the number of people who will board the pod (up to four people per pod) and their destination(s). They also have the option to add and remove stops and change the order of them. From there, the terminal will ask for a fingerprint scan which is used to link their itinerary to the pod at platform level. It also verifies the passenger's identity, and crosschecks their biological identification with the CAX employee database in order to confirm that the employee has access to the system or any of the stops. They then go through a security barrier and walk to the platform, and wait in line for the next available pod. Departure platforms are large and circular. Passengers enter via a Speedoramp at the center and wait on a static non-moving platform. The physical platform itself is rotating, and moves underneath the "waiting platform," along with the pods which are holding on an interior "stasis track" until a passenger walks up to a pod and selects it for transport. After a passenger selects a pod by placing their finger print to link their itinerary, they enter and the doors automatically close. The pod moves to the exterior "departure track" and is then switched onto the track travelling to their first destination.