By Celsias Team
Posted on Sept. 3, 2010. Listed in:
Ordinarily, being driven over by a bus wouldn’t be an optimal situation. But in this case, it is an optimal solution to easing traffic jams, whilst also reducing transport carbon emissions.
Later this year in Beijing, the Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment company is planing to build a “straddling bus” which, as its name suggests, straddles cars as it drives. The ‘3D Express Coach (also known as a ‘three-dimensional fast bus”) allows cars less than 2 meters high to travel underneath the upper level carrying passengers.
Because the bus will be powered by electricity and a solar energy system, it has the potential to save 860 tons of fuel per year, reducing carbon emissions by 2,640 tons.
The bus is reported to reduce traffic congestion on main routes by between 25 and 30 percent, and will run at an average speed of 40 km/h. Capacity wise, it can take 1200 people at a time.
Construction of the first 186km of track will begin at the end of this year in Beijing's Mentougou district.
View it for yourself below.
