There are many types of public transportation such as normal bus, Subway, BRT and Light-rail train. All for types have advantages and disadvantages; however traffic jam, pollution and using huge space for parking are continuing to be unsolved problems.
Straddling Buses are proposal for future buses in China to solve all these problems. Building the straddling bus includes two essential parts:
1. Remodeling the road
2. Building Station Platform.
The most advantage of the Straddling bus is saving road spaces, and its capacity and height are efficient as well; the vehicles pass underneath the Straddling Bus.
The straddling bus has sensors that warns the vehicles underneath the bus when they too close to its side. The construction life cycle is short (1 year to build 40 Km whereas building the same length of subway takes three years). Also the straddling bus doesn’t need the large parking lot that normal buses need. It can park anywhere in its path without affection the roads. It also powered by municipal electricity and solar energy completely. The Interior has huge skylight that eliminates passengers’ sense of depression.
Click on the following link to see a Prototype of the Straddling Buses
This is really cool, but I think I'd be a little nervous the first time I drove under a bus!
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