World’s Largest Bus: China’s 300 Passenger Youngman JNP6250G ...

[ozbob]

http://inhabitat.com/worlds-largest-bus-chinas-300-passenger-youngman-jnp6250g-set-to-serve-beijing-and-hangzhou/

World's Largest Bus: China's 300 Passenger Youngman JNP6250G Set to Serve Beijing and Hangzhou


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The Youngman JNP6250G has not one – but two – accordion ribbed joint sections, giving the megabus flexibility and the ability to bend around corners. Thanks to the ribbed sections, the bus can turn at the same radius as a regular city bus. The sprawling bus is 82 feet long, and its top speed is only around 50 mph. While other methods of green transportation are faster, the megabus hardly crawls down the highway. Inside, the megabus is much more comfortable and also more wheelchair friendly. The aisles are widened for navigability, and a pavement level step makes wheelchair boarding much easier and faster. 40 regular seats line the bus, and five doors make it easy to enter and exit the vehicle.

The new bus is designed to meet the demands of the heavily populated country that has places to go. The BRT will even have its own lane in local highways, creating another incentive to use public transportation rather than waiting in traffic in your own car. The Youngman JNP6250G is a great public transportation solution that has been geared up to meet the world's ever-growing population.

http://inhabitat.com/worlds-largest-bus-chinas-300-passenger-youngman-jnp6250g-set-to-serve-beijing-and-hangzhou/

[#Metro]

That's actually pretty impressive.

82 feet = 25 meters. Most platforms on the busway are 50 - 70 meters so they will *just* fit. I wonder if they are low floor?

If we imagine that we have 120 buses per hour on the busway (two buses a minute), at exactly two of these buses per minute, that is

300 x 120 buses per hour = 36 000 pphd, which represents almost a doubling of current busway capacity. However, I think these services might be too large to penetrate into the suburbs, so the network would need to be re-organised such that there were, at maximum two busway routes - a combined 111 + 333 and perhaps a city express.

80 km / hour is just about maximum speed on the busway as well.

[HappyTrainGuy]

Whoops, missed the turn off. Let me put it in reverse...... ahhh f**k!