07-09-2017, 11:48 AM
Sky Bus technology offered by the Konkan Railway Corporation meets the above requirements and redefines urban transport planning and thinking as a mass transit system that revolutionizes urban life. It is a patented technology developed for the new millennium and will cause a paradigm shift in urban transportation around the world.
Being an indigenous technology, it will put India at the forefront of the fast transit industry around the world, while providing the much needed transportation solution, which is financially viable, environmentally friendly, well proven synergy technologies existing vanguard.
Sky Bus is based on the concept of Sky Wheels presented in 1989 at the World Congress of Railway Research by Mr. B Rajaram, Managing Director of KRCL at the University of Bologna, Italy. The sky bus uses the latest prefabricated construction technologies that save time and money resulting in easy project execution in busy urban areas without disturbing the existing traffic pattern. All these methods of structural engineering are well proven. They have computer tools for economic communication and control. AC three-phase asynchronous motor used for the propulsion of sky buses is also tested and widely used abroad as well as in India.
The most valuable asset in growing urban areas is land. After their allocation for residential and commercial purposes only 6% up to a maximum of 18% of land in cities form roads. Once established roads almost remain constant and can in fact be effectively reduced by uncontrolled usurpations. With the physical restriction on the road area as a result of the growing population, the intensity of the loads and the volume of traffic on the roads increase. As more and more people from different habitats try to converge towards the central business district, the road is left without the ability to improvise and handle the excess traffic, which leads to congestion. The roads take one exactly to the point where one wants to go. But capacity is limited in terms of passengers per hour that can be handled, considering speed limits and lane-width limitations.