An aerial mass transit system consisting of personal maglev podcars may be coming to the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, city officials say. Mayor Ron Huldai announced in March that his city aims to become the world's first to use the SkyTran mass-transit system, co-developed by NASA and SkyTran, a private firm based at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

The SkyTran system consists of pods that hang from overhead connectors levitated by magnetism. Each pod carries two people, giving the riders privacy and a quiet ride due to the pod's magnetic suspension. The pods can be hailed by phones, tablets or computers and, according to SkyTran, arrive almost instantaneously. When the pods leave the station they enter a continuously moving stream and only stop at their destination. — Reuters