How An Autonomous Train-Bus Hybrid Could Transform City Transit

That Chinese made trams (which can also be battery powered) are no more expensive than these automous busses. I would suggest that once you have built this network properly such as repaving parts and having a separator of sorts to keep delivery trucks from parking in your lane and blocking all transit then you will find that the cost is as expensive as a tram/light rail... But rubber rails on roadway is a lot more expensive to power than steel wheels on steel rails so the tram is cheaper to operate. If you build a cheap system without dedicated protection from stopping traffic you will find very few people will use your transit as it will be slow and unreliable in its travel and departure times like current busses.

it´s of course a glorified bendy-bus with some BRT (that needs more expansive streets)

In Perth they're talking about between train lines and other key suburbs. Such as Glendalough Station to Scarborough Beach. But I reckon the attraction needs to be down Alexander Dr or Wanneroo Rd... or Fremantle to Curtin on Canning Hwy... Leach is another option.

Arrived in Perth and going to be tested now.

Just build a regular f*cking train
-Adam Something

It's all well and good for newer cities with wide open roads. You could never make it work in European cities.

Beautiful and elegant transport technology any country

Beautiful and elegant transport technology any country

I wonder if the "tracks" that are painted on the roadway is just a visual for people to see the dedicated lane or does it help the trackless trains/bus "see" the route. If it just cosmetic, then this system could be of great use in cities with lots of snow, as long as the roadways are consistently cleared of snow.

Is ART just a glorified BRT?

Trackless trams seem like a gadgetbahn

seriously? why do you need a painted line in the road? -> so it is just a chinese bus disguised as an european tram
do you know why chinese created all their highspeed railroads ELEVATED?: cause zillions of people will cross and crash !!

So it’s a trolly bus

Bus

Perfect Van life for the un-housed on the first day! No driver and ticket vendors. What could go wrong?

Another new invefrom CHINA?
Not in the land of proudly made in USA?
Shocking news!

FIRSTLY, they are NOT locomotives, but having said that, I see the systems as sweeping Australia over the next few years!

Stop reinventing trains and just build trains. This is so stupid.

Can CNBC be any more Chinese propaganda 🤦‍♂️.
Mate if it looks like a bus, it act like a bus, it's made like a bus, an perform like a bus, is a bus.
You just trying to sell it and sell china fake innovation

NO, IT DOES NOT integrate the advantages of Bus and Tram.
NOT AT ALL !
☝️🧐
Have you ever seen
a new tram system, running on green stripes in the middle of road ("GRASS TRACK") and with "the right of way", structuring the street space and enriching the cityscape ?  Not possible by any bus !
Or "TRAIN FORMATION" in multiple traction, to enlarge capacity without costs ?  Not possible     by any bus !

And these are just
2 examples ...
🤮👎
It remains :
Buses have no place on routes with high ridership, that are definetly served more economically by trams ... regardless of whether they are a standard bus, trolley-bus, O-Bahn, BRT bus, or guided bus. It doesn't matter !
Otherwise we could replace our subways/metros by taxis/cabs.
👋😜 🇩🇪
But don"t care, carry on growing the asphalt deserts of our cities instead, with such an inferior FAKE OF A TRAM !

Just another distraction from the automotive and tire industry to prevent people from using actually efficient solutions like trains and trams.
Politicians love these

Priority on the road?
I thought that already happens with tram.

This is a bad and shortsighted idea in most cases... There's a reason we use steel wheels. Damn technobahns

They simply inbebted a autonomous brt

The only way this works is for these bus trains to have their own designated lane free from all other traffic and no stopping at crossings. It must be fast and efficient

Lol like I would trust a Chinese automated bus on the streets.

It's called a bus

we don't need China made bus to spy on us

Citizens: can we have light rail
CNBC: we have light rail at home
light rail at home:

JUST BUILD TRAMS AND LIGHT RAIL

silly. The benifits of rail is its not impacted by road traffic. I can take the train into Chicago during rush hour in 45 mins. while if I drove a car it would take me more than 1.5 hrs.

Concept

What if the autonomous train-bus hybrid was from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s?

What if the autonomous train-bus hybrid looks like a the big bus cyclops?

ART is basically, you could say, just an 'artful' way to remove the stigma from taking the bus. It is not an innovation at all. Despite what has the cool factor, whether it is decorated buses, teslas in tunnels, or flying cars, trains are still much better in every respect. Just build more trains, people

Apparently people in the comments don’t seem to understand how much more convenient these tram-buses are compared to other buses. Being only one storey, fully automated and having 3 articulated sections (which is uncommon in buses) is a Huge advantage for these tram-buses.

FYI if you want to reduce inner city traffic, Stockholm solved that problem: inner city car travel tolls.

Also, if you want public transport to be safer, maybe having an anonymous Air Marshal type roll on random buses would greatly help

A longer bendier bus. Transform transit indeed. 😆

too expensive in NY to build conventional heavy rail. But, much cheaper to build narrow gauge light rail like the DLR in London, which is also very high capacity. All those dedicated bus lanes can be removed on major roads like Northern Blvd, and in the center median, put a two track dedicated right of way for light rail vehicles with center island platforms that double function as intermediate walkways so that people crossing sometimes 8 lanes of traffic can stop in the middle, then put in the automatic fair gates like on the air train and it will work, cheaper than a subway, faster and higher capacity than a bus, and it doesn’t require you to reinvent the wheel, just to lay down track for speeds up to 45mph, and it being narrow gauge track makes it a lot cheaper already.

I just don't understand the purpose. If it requires its own dedicated lane to drive on, why not just make it a train? Or if it has to travel on the same roads as cars a tram would work fine too - and both have the advantages of being able to draw power directly from the grid rather than requiring a huge battery or fuel to drive, which makes them cheaper in the long run despite the extra cost in infrastructure to put down rails or put up tram lines.

Why not a bus-train-submarine-helicopter hybrid while you're at it? See? I suggested something new and futuristic, making ME a SUPER GENIUS! Or, you can just do PROVED methods that work WONDERFULLY like the REST OF THE WORLD has ALREADY WORKED OUT. But that would be too "mundane" and "boring" for you Americunts.

LOGIC, calebpan. Something extremist conservatives (republicunts) and extremist centrists (democraps) are too stupid to have. Guns for Greens! Mandate voting for Green Party!

Monterrey City Mx will have this ART in the line 5 once the neighborhood rehected the monorriel.... Now other citizens mention that was an error of state authorities accept this ART...however I think is not so bad.

Wait, it just a "Tesla" bus?!?!! WTF guys.

This project was canceled in China now they are bringing their crap transportation here…. NYC of all places… Wth the city must be desperate.

THAT'S A BUS, NOT A TRAIN!!!! Man, the CCP are working overtime to present this as something "revolutionary" when it's only a way to save face. 😂😂

Mfer it’s a bus

It's not a train. It's a self driving bendy bus. Stop shilling for the CCP and their propaganda laden nonsense. It's useless garbage that tries to overthink transport.

Bring back Trolleys 🚃!

Cool, this may be the safer way to do full self driving but even trains can derail but nothing's perfect.

God bless.

Sydney-Australia need to count cost of these versus their single maintenance-blitz. They have r2e2 mangoes for americaaaaaaa