New executive chauffeur service offered at Heathrow Airport

Chauffeur driven cars available through Heathrow Airport

A brand new executive chauffeur driven car hire service has been launched at Heathrow Airport.

The new scheme has received full backing from the airport and can arrange chauffeur driven transfers from any UK address with just 24 hours notice.

With so many companies offering chauffeur driven car hire services to Heathrow, sifting out the good from the bad can be a delicate operation. However the new service on offer is fully endorsed by Heathrow airport for added peace of mind for the client.

A range of executive cars are available for hire along with a fully suited and experienced chauffeur. A fleet of Mercedes S Class vehicles are available through the service, these cars are ideally suited for transporting 3 passengers and luggage. If a larger capacity vehicle is required, then the Mercedes Viano MPV is ideally suited to this kind of transfer.

The chauffeur service is available to travellers flying from any Heathrow terminal, on either outbound or inbound flights. As an added bonus, a chauffeur driven car can also be arranged to collect the passenger from their outbound destination as the chauffeur service is also offered in 70 different countries through Heathrow airport.

If you would like to learn more about the private hire chauffeur facility at Heathrow, please visit the airport’s main website.

Heathrow Airport introduces robot chauffeurs

Heathrow Airport unveils new chauffeur-less pod car

Heathrow Airport unveils new chauffeur-less pod car

Heathrow Airport unveils new chauffeur-less pod car

Heathrow Airport is about to unveil its latest, innovative form of transport for its passengers. It’s not a plane, a jet or a high speed shuttle but, a pod car driven by a robot. Forget the bus or even a chauffeur driven limo, soon a fleet of battery powered vehicles will soon be seen ferrying business passengers around Terminal 5 of the world’s third busiest airport.

 

The robot chauffeured vehicle, named Ultra Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system has been in development since 2005. The pilot scheme was ordered by BAA who run Heathrow, from a Bristol based company named Advanced Transport Systems. Now the revolutionary chauffeur-less vehicle is entering its final trail stages with the finished product scheduled to be released at Heathrow towards the end of the year.

Each pod car carries a maximum of 4 passengers and reaches speeds of up to 40 kilometres an hour. The ultra system will begin by carrying business passengers from the car park to Terminal 5. The vehicles have inbuilt computer systems which gauge demand for the shuttle system so its estimated that no one will have to wait longer than a minute for the next pod car to arrive. The current bus shuttle service comes around every 10 minutes so the new pod car will cut down on waiting time significantly.

As well as being a more effective system, its also, crucially, more energy efficient. It uses half the amount of energy in comparison to the bus shuttle which is currently in place. Come the end of 2009, transport at Heathrow will have a distinctly, futuristic feel.