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A Seminar On

STRADDLING BUS – Sharing The Street

Ramkrishna P Jagali1RE14CTE12

Under the guidance of : Mr. Rahul L Kadam,Assistant Professor RITM, Bengaluru.

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Contents

*Problem statement

*Next generation transit system

*Benefits of straddling bus over existing transit system

*Steps involved in implementation

*Features of straddling bus

*Major challenges and solutions

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Problem Statement*One of the major problems faced by the Indian urban

cities is the problem of traffic congestion. A big concern is how to speed up the traffic.

*Putting more buses on the road will jam the roads even worse and pollute the air.

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MRTS

BRTS

Normal Bus

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Continued…*Building more subway is costly and time consuming. So there is a need to

device a system compatible with existing infrastructure to reduce congestion.

*With the increasing population of urban cities and growing deficit between the road networks and number of vehicles thus leading to pollution and waste of resources, there is a demand for efficient public transport system proposed solution

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Next Generation Transit System

The model looks like a subway or light-rail train bestriding the road The bus can reduce the traffic jams 20%-30%

Powered by electricity and solar energy Reduced the traffic jams by 20%-30%.

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4-4.5M high with two levels passenger boat on the upper level and 7 M in width while other vehicles lower than 2M can go

Cost is about 5.36 billion rupees to build the bus and a 40KM long path for it, approximately 7% of metro system

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Average speed is 40-50KM/Hr carrying 1200-1400 passengers at a time without blocking other vehicle’s way

Large windows are provided on the both lower sides so that the illusion of car moving back, is not created.

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Features of Straddling Bus

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*Metro costs a lot and takes a long time to build.

*BRTS takes up road spaces and producing noise and pollution. thus producing more congestion on roads for other vehicles

*Normal bus system is not sophisticated and the buses are congested and a lot of time is wasted travelling with these buses

*Large parking spaces are required

• It is cheaper and construction takes less time

• It saves road spaces, efficient and high in capacity

• Traveling with these buses will consume less time and hence it is more sophisticated

• Large parking spaces are not required and can be parked on roads without affecting the passage of cars

Present Transit System Straddling Bus System

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Key steps involved in the implementation

*Re - modelling of the road:

Laying Rails – The rails will be laid on both sides of the road and the bus can run on the rails and save 30% energy.

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*Paint white lines The white lines on both sides of the road and buses will have auto pilots

which will follow these lines and run stable while moving.

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*Building stations Load / Unload through the sides. Using the built-in-ladder so that passengers can go up and over pass through the ceiling doors. Stations can be set up at every 2Km.

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Power supply to buses

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Ensuring safety

* Using laser ray scanning system

* using radar scanning system

* ultrasonic waves will be put forth from the end of bus

* Escaping doors and inflated ladder for fire or emergency exit.

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Source of funding

*The estimated cost is about 5.36 Billion rupees to build the straddling bus and a 40Km long path for it, which is approximately 7% of Metro system.

*Initial cost of a phase can be calculated.

*The total expenditure for that phase can be divided among Central Govt., State Govt., Soft loan and Private Public Partnership or Soft loans.

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Continued…

*Some part of investment for Ex. 30% can be provided by Central Govt., 30% by State Govt., and rest can be raised by public private partnership or soft loans.

*The revenue earned will be used firstly for maintenance so that the project can run successfully and the money left after this can be used to pay the debt.

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Scalability of solution

*Buses can carry 1200-1400 passengers at a time.

*Eco-friendly transit system and saves 860 Ton of fuel every year reduces 2640Ton carbon emission.

*It can produce more output from the given sources.

*It doesn’t require extra space for its development and running, like other public transport system.

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Sustainability of solution

*This project is sustainable because it is compatible with the declining resources by deriving its energy from renewable world which is suffering from energy crisis. Also it provides a low cost sophisticated and comfortable travel. In India, many urban cities are being planned with Metro’s and Bullet trains which costs a lot. So this system can act as boon on coming future.

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Metro rail transit system Straddling Bus system

• It requires huge infrastructure, which incurs more initial investment

• It requires more land to build. elevated structures.

• It runs only on electricity.• It can carry 1000 passengers

at a time.

• It does not require elevated structure as it runs on rails as well as road, without disturbing the traffic on road.

• It does not require more land, as rails will be laid on the road itself.

• It runs on electricity as well as solar energy.

• it can carry 1200-1400 passengers at a time.

• As subway of straddling bus will force the traffic to move in a platoon.

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• Improper traffic light monitoring system

• Wide roads not available in many areas

• People's carelessness and unawareness in following traffic rules

• Maintenance problems• Poor road conditions• Government’s unwillingness

towards new transit system and keep spending on conventional transit system

• Lack of co-ordination in different departments

Challenges Solutions

• Central and efficient traffic monitoring by traffic control agencies

• Construction of wide and efficient roads

• Awareness campaigns for people and imposing heavy fines for breaking rules

• Central maintenance department can coordinate with PWD to maintain roads

• A separate central department to look after all the maintenance problems of the bus system and will be under direct control of higher authorities

• Setting up a separate head of the all departments to control and co-ordinate effectively

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Conclusion

*It runs above car and under overpass, saves road space.

*It uses electric and solar power reduces the air pollution

*It reduces up to 20-30 % of traffic jams

*It is safe, efficient and has high capacity.

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Appendix*The straddling bus was first exhibited on the 13th Beijing

International High-Tech Expo.

*The basic idea was proposed by Shenzhen Hashi.

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References

* www.slideshare.net

*http://www.delhimetrorail.com/needformetro/metro-need.aspx

*http://www.delhimetrorail.com/projectsupdate/project_cost.aspx

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.Delhi_Metro

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