Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 10:28am
Forty-three feet longer than a standard city bus, China's Youngman JNP6250G is 82-feet long bus and as agile as a sports car cruising down the highway, taking tight turns without smashing up traffic.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 12:40pm
The Dutch Superbus was just another futuristic concept when we first wrote about it in 2006, but after only three years and $18 million, it's now a futuristic prototype, and Dutch teenagers really, really want one.
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Monday, June 1, 2009 - 1:41pm
Why does a bus stop need to be solar powered, you ask? To power its LED lighting, intercom system and even a wireless router — at least, that's how it is with these swanky new bus stops being installed in...
Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 2:58pm
Bus stops: locations a lot of us may become more familiar with as the gasoline goes away. Should we be filled with dread? Not necessarily, because some creative souls want to make the bus-riding experience fun, turning bus stops into...
Monday, March 30, 2009 - 3:27pm
A team of industrial design students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette have put together a railway that wouldn't need stations to pick up passengers. Instead, system features driverless pods that are mounted to an elevated rail on an...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 1:44pm
Sometimes, when you're walking around in a city, you want a faster way to get around. If only you had an electric scooter at your disposal! Well, Anton Grimes' entry into the Australian Design Awards competition would offer up just...
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:40am
French public transportation company SNCF is getting 1,000 customers to help it test an RFID-enabled smart card that's also a USB drive, known as the Weneo ID Smart. It's a push by SNCF to expand its contactless payment system,...
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 11:15am
The Ubicycle public bicycle service system by design firm Continuum (who worked on the Hundred Dollar Laptop project) will give commuters a new way to get around town. The unmanned bike rental kiosks are topped with solar panels for...
