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The Chinese, as you know, are a rather strange people, but they also there is something to learn. If the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom decided something to do, they will certainly do it, and in the shortest possible time, not putting work off the shelf and not feeding the public endless promises. While many concepts are hopeless forgotten and do not get sales, Chinese developments come to life almost always.
So, at the end of May this year, craftsmen from China presented at Beijing exhibition project of the world’s first portal bus. Employees of Future Parking Equipment developed a concept huge passenger vehicle that moves over the road on rails on both sides of it. A kind of “walking tunnel” through which cars will pass, designed to unload the motorway, partially solving the problem of traffic jams in the city streets.
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In less than three months, the Chinese have already tested their innovation in Qinhuangdao urban district. Electric gantry the bus, called “Transit Elevated Bus”, successfully passed tests at a closed three-hundred-meter training ground simulating the road with bends and car traffic. It is worth recognizing that in Everything is impressive for this project: the Transit Elevated Bus itself, and the speed of its construction, and the courage of such an idea. Who knows – maybe in the foreseeable future such miracle buses will appear in others countries.
Parameters of a bus walking over a road
The length of the machine is twenty-two meters, width – seven meters eighty centimeters, height – four meters eighty centimeters. Chinese officials report that the trial the version of the vehicle is designed for three hundred passengers, however, in the future, such equipment will be able to transport one thousand two hundred man, developing a speed of up to sixty five kilometers in hour.
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The bus is driven by two massive supports along its edges, for which special roads are laid on both sides of the road rails. Two lanes can ride freely on the walking tunnel cars without interacting with a huge passenger car. Due to this, on city roads should decrease traffic jams. As for the trucks, they are under “Transit Elevated Bus “not yet fit, however engineers” Future Parking Equipment “is already working on a solution to this problem.
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Future models of the portal bus will be equipped with solar rooftop batteries generating part necessary for the movement of energy machines. Obviously, the cost of such transport is incomparably lower than that of the metro, so the Chinese consider his invention is very rational and promising. We will see, how will it soon behave on real roads and whether compete with the subway.
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