Straddling busa cheaper, greener and faster alternative to commute A big concern on top of urban transportation planners mind is how to speed up the traffic putting more buses on the road will jam the roads even worse and deteriorate the air building more subway is costly and time consuming. Well, here is an cheaper, greener and fast alternative to lighten their mind up a bit the straddling bus, first exhibited on the 1. Beijing International High tech Expo in May this year. In the near future, the model is to be put into pilot use in Beijings Mentougou District bjnews. The official site of the high tech expo put it as 3. D fast bus, which I think is more confusing, for now Ill just call it the straddling bus. Proposed by Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment Co., Ltd, the model looks like a subway or light rail train bestriding the road. It is 4 4. 5 m high with two levels passengers board on the upper level while other vehicles lower than 2 m can go through under. Powered by electricity and solar energy, the bus can speed up to 6. Also it costs about 5. It is said that the bus can reduce traffic jams by 2. Here is the presentation by Song Youzhou, chairman of  Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment Co., Ltd. Translation What you can see from the video is traffic jams, what you can hear is noise, and there is also invisible air pollution. At present, there are mainly 4 types of public transits in China subway, light rail train, BRT, and normal bus. They have advantages and disadvantages, for example, subway costs a lot and takes long time to build BRT takes up road spaces and produces noises as well as pollution to the air. How to develop environmental friendly public transportation Straddling bus provides a solution. Lets watch a demonstration. The straddling bus combines the advantages of BRT, it is also a substitution for BRT and subway in the future. As you all know, the majority vehicle on the road is car, the shortest vehicle is also car. Normally our overpass is 4. The highlight innovation of straddling bus is that it runs above car and under overpass. Its biggest strength is saving road spaces, efficient and high in capacity. Motion.jpg]];var lpix_1=pix_1.length;var p1_0= [[375' alt='Gary Gadget: Building Cars' title='Gary Gadget: Building Cars' />It can reduce up to 2. Running at an average 4. Another strength of straddling bus is its short construction life cycle only 1 year to build 4. Dream High 2011 Indo Sub more. Whereas building 4. Also the straddling bus will not need the large parking lot that normal buses demand. It can park at its own stop without affecting the passage of cars. This is what the interior looks like it has huge skylight that will eliminate passengers sense of depression when enter. There are two parts in building the straddling bus. One is remodeling the road, the other is building station platforms. Two ways to remodel the road we can go with laying rails on both sides of car lane, which save 3. There are also two ways in dealing with station platform. One is to loadunload through the sides the other is using the built in ladder so that passengers can go up and to the overpass through the ceiling door. Straddling bus is completely powered by municipal electricity and solar energy system. In terms of electricity, the setting is called relay direct current electrification. The bus itself is electrical conductor, two rails built on top to allow the charging post to run along with the bus, the next charging post will be on the rails before the earlier one leaves, that is why we call it relay charging. It is new invention, not available yet in other places. Back when Mercedes was using the reanimated corpse of Pablo Picasso as the head of design for the Unimog division. A public opinion survey says the Yonkers Police Department is doing a good job of interacting with the community. The ideal solution, of course, is to ban cars and melt them down into free bicycles for all. But in the real world, your best bet is to physically avoid the pollution. The Gadget Brotherhood. Mike and Dan Dubno are master tinkerers whose innovations have altered global finance and television news. But their greatest. The set here is super capacitor, a device that can charge, discharge and store electricity quickly. The power it stores during the stop can support the bus till the next stop where another round of charging takes place, achieving zero toxic gas throughout the process. About the ultrasonic waves put forth from the end of the bus, that is to keep those high cars or trucks away from entering the tunnel. Using laser ray to scan, cars get too close to the passage will activate the alarm on the bus end. Inside the bus, there are turning lights that indicate a the bus is intending to make a turn to warn the cars inside. Also radar scanning system is embedded on the walls to warn cars from getting too close to the bus wheels. Nowadays many big cities have remodeled their traffic signaling system, to prioritize public buses, that is to say when a bus reaches a crossing, red light on the other side of the fork will turn on automatically to give buses the right of way. Our straddling bus can learn from this BRT method. The car can make the turn with the bus if that is the direction it wants to go too if not, the red light will be on to stop the cars beneath while the bus take the turn. The bus is 6 m in width and 4 4. How will people get off the bus if an accident happens to such a huge bus Here I introduce the most advanced escaping system in the world. In the case of fire or other emergencies, the escaping door will open automatically. I believe many of you have been on a plane. Planes are equipped with inflated ladder so people can slide down on it in emergency. I put the escaping concept into the straddling bus. It is the fastest way to escape. The bus can save up to 8. Presently we have passed the first stage demonstration and will get through all of the technical invalidation by the end of August. Beijings Mentougou District is carrying out a eco community project, it has already planned out 1. Construction will begin at year end.