The above features, combined with an electronic guidance and control system which ensures that vehicle locations are always precicely known, seem to me to offer a viable alternative for smaller cities, which might not be able to meet the infrastructure costs of light rail or tram systems.
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I must say, that sounds really neat.
I think it's a beautiful vehicle and would be an excellent prospect to curb our current light-rail mania in this country.
Craig: why do you consider it better than light rail? Or more generally, what do you consider to be the problems of light rail and in what ways is this BRT better and worse than light rail?
A thought--I wonder about using NiMH batteries. My understanding is that lead-acid batteries are usually preferred over NiMH except when the weight of lead-acid is a significant problem, since NiMH is much more expensive. I would think that for a multi-segment bus, battery weight would be a much smaller fraction of total weight than in a 4 passenger automobile.
Hi--I'm studying transportation at MIT and considering writing my thesis on people's perceptions of BRT. I stumbled accross this blog and was wondering if anyone could tell me about it (who posts, is it related to some organization, etc) thanks,
miriam
