Wednesday, August 3, 2016

China has begun testing a futuristic bus portal – BBC

The tests tech passenger bus portal TEB-1 (Transit Elevated Bus) took place in China in the city of Qinhuangdao, 300 kilometers east of Beijing. While the presentation was on a fairly short program:. Bus released on a closed track and gave the drive about 300 meters Nevertheless premiere unusual transport created a furor on the Internet thanks to a futuristic design new items

. The cabin of the bus as much as possible is raised above ground to below it could easily, in two rows, pass cars.

length of the vehicle is 22 meters, width – 7.8 m and height – 4, 8 m. according to the Chinese agency «Xinhua» , the portal can move the bus on the streets of the city, but only on special rails, located on the edges of the road. Only one cabin can accommodate up to 300 passengers. But all the same, judging by the demovideo, it is planned that there will be two additional cling to the head carriage. According to one of the engineers of the project, this means that both transport of the future will be able to move about a thousand people.

engine bus is powered by batteries that can be recharged at elektrozapravkah set along the route

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The main task of the bus – ensure the delivery of passengers without creating traffic jams: overtake the bus portal motorists can drive directly beneath it if necessary. Of course, this possibility deprived of big trucks – to raise even higher the cabin does not make sense because of the encountered on the road overpasses. For the convenience of road users are located on the sides of the bus actual lights.

Moves bus on conventional wheels 16, and leading are eight pairs of railway wheels. Due to the fact that transport should be on railroad tracks, it looks like a hybrid bus with a train and can not deviate from the course. To get inside, passengers will have to use special high platform

The maximum bus speed -.. 45 km / h

In addition to combat congestion is scheduled to launch TEB-1 will help to reduce annual fuel consumption by 800 tons and carbon dioxide emissions -.. 2.5 tons This is especially true for China, where the air (as in many large cities) is very dirty iz for the abundance of cars and industrial emissions. In addition, due to the high capacity of the project is hoped to reduce the load on the subway

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Because of the skepticism of some experts, who immediately began to talk about the high possibility of future accidents involving bus, it was decided at first to test it separately from the urban flow on special tracks. Tests races on long distance will begin only next year. Details about how the bus-portal integrated into the urban environment, yet. Most likely, desktop run buses to the city authorities will have to equip the existing street needs rails or build has new roads with the additional requirements

It is known that Qinhuangdao -. One of the five cities that have entered into contracts with the Technology Development Company for the launch of a pilot project to launch TEB-1. As representatives of the company, each bus will cost about $ 4.5 million. And if all goes according to plan, in the series, he can enter the market in the coming year and a half. The project has already become interested in Brazil, France and Indonesia.

Meanwhile, in Moscow in recent years, there is an active replacement of trolley buses, and in the future on the electric bus. It is expected that, subject to availability on the part of domestic producers annually in Moscow will come from 200 to 250 non-polluting electric buses. In the future, the city authorities are ready to sign a contract with the manufacturer of electric buses for five years.

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