Chinese future bus

[J-2739]

more importantly, I wouldn't be able to put my kayak or surfboard on top of my car if these were in use, so It would have to be on a trailer, taking up more road space! and as my camper wouldn't fit I would have to take a caravan! that's two trailers already!

With extra weight comes extra fuel consumption and higher pollution rates. I feel as though this concept is a solution looking for a problem... still interesting though.

 

[Dent]

This goes to show that this bus/tram concept is only really meant for a few cities: the ones with wide roads, majority single decker buses and serious traffic congestion. Several Chinese and American cities spring to mind.

This is a bespoke solution for one particular route. What is the problem with that?
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And what about commercial vehicles? Should distribution companies switch from using one artic to 50 Ford Focus vans so as to fit underneath a preposterous straddle bus?

Obviously not, they would use the lanes without the height restrictions. Some lanes have a height restriction, your vehicle is higher that - therefore you use another lane. Hardly rocket science.

 

[J-2739]

This is a bespoke solution for one particular route. What is the problem with that?

Where was this mentioned then?

 

[WatcherZero]

Was an investment scam, 32 arrested for financial fraud and the test track has been demolished.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-40492697

Police in Beijing have arrested 32 people for illegal fundraising linked to a scrapped project to create a "straddling bus" to beat traffic jams.
The futuristic idea to lift commuters above congestion quickly attracted international attention when it was launched last year - but was finally scrapped last month.
There had been growing speculation that it was no more than an investment scam.
In a statement, police said they were working to recover investors' assets.
China has seen a series of scams where online platforms offer big returns on money invested into start-ups, an area mostly ignored by the country's state-run banks.
Among those arrested was Bai Zhiming, the 47-year-old CEO of the Transit Elevated Bus Company (TEB) who is also the founder of peer-to-peer financing company Huaying Kailai Asset Management...

 

[Busaholic]

Was an investment scam, 32 arrested for financial fraud and the test track has been demolished.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-40492697

Damn, I had it down as a North Korean Trojan horse.

 

[D365]

Phew. Better late than never.

 

[BestWestern]

They built a vehicle and a test track though, that's quite some scam!

 

[rebmcr]

There was never any way that a non-bogied vehicle that wide would make the curve radius shown in the promotional graphics...

 

[HSTEd]

Doesn't need bogies if it has no solid axles.

Track Circuits are the only real reason that solid axles survive today on the railway for passenger use, and even then they are starting to dissapear with things like Talgo.

 

[edwin_m]

Doesn't need bogies if it has no solid axles.

Track Circuits are the only real reason that solid axles survive today on the railway for passenger use, and even then they are starting to dissapear with things like Talgo.

Solid axles are essential to the natural steering of the wheelset through curves, so independent wheels need some other means of ensuring the wheel follows the optimum path to reduce flange contact and the resulting noise and wheel wear. About 99% of trains still have them and even in the tram world there were lots of independent wheel designs but Bombardier went back to solid axles a few years ago for the more recent Flexity models such as the one for Blackpool.

By contrast track circuit actuation isn't a reason to have solid axles at all. The body needs to be earthed to the track so wheels must have a good electrical connection. Electric trains normally have a brush on an axle to ensure the return current doesn't go through the bearings, and if necessary these could be fitted to each indepedent wheel.

 

[J-2739]

I feel a bit bad. This was a good idea that was unfortunately thought up by scammers. I wish someone else thought up of it instead.

 

[D365]

I feel a bit bad. This was a good idea that was unfortunately thought up by scammers. I wish someone else thought up of it instead.

In no way could this 'idea' have been realistic - see below:

There was never any way that a non-bogied vehicle that wide would make the curve radius shown in the promotional graphics...

 

[WatcherZero]

They built a vehicle and a test track though, that's quite some scam!

They didn't build them, they were built six years earlier in 2010 and then the project was cancelled for failing safety certification, the new owners just refurbished the vehicle and announced they had a contract with the local council to roll it out (which they didnt) and made a big show of press rides during the Beijing international tech trade show in 2016.