China has experienced bus devouring cork – BBC News

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For a bus built a special test track in Qinhuangdao City, according to the Chinese edition of “Xinhua”. The test prototype, which now rides through the city, can accommodate 300 passengers, but, as previously stated by the creators of the project Transit Elevated Bus, this is not the limit. Bus, for example, may consist of several “cars”, and thus would be able to transport at a time more than a thousand people, or will become the equivalent of forty ordinary buses.

With the congestion the Chinese decided to fight by O bus cabin on the “second floor” – reminiscent of the gantry crane design is based on the rails at the edges of the roadway, and the passenger capsule is moving over the rails cars. Rails, by the way, serve and energy source for the bus, as the movement it is electric motors

At the design stage TEB I had a length of 60 m, but the test prototype became half as long -. 32m him. height is 4.6 m, which means that the bus between the legs may pass for cars up to 2 meters – that is, the vast majority of cars. Passengers also get into the salon with a special ladder.

Earlier it was reported that the use of such vehicles will reduce fuel consumption by 800 tons per year, and the atmosphere will fall by 2 500 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

in addition, the creators of the project argue that its implementation will cost much cheaper than in urban infrastructure, than, for example, laying underground. Yes, and require less time: the construction of one line “portal” bus will take more than a year.

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