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Sky Bus metroThe basic concept of sky bus metro is derived from the concept of sky –wheels presented in 1989 at world congress for railway research at Bologna university, Italy by Mr. B. Rajaram, Ex. Managing director of KRCL, based on reengineering of existing technology.
“Technically sound..”
-Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
What is it really mean?
The SKYBUS metro consists of light coaches suspended from sky bogies on the skyway. The skyway is supported by a series of piers placed along the dividers on the road. The skybus is suspended on the wheels and travels on overhead, twin railway tracks enclosed in a concrete box. It can be boarded on a sky station every 500 meters and can be accessed by prepaid cards.
DESCRIPTION
Heavy 52/60 kg /m rails placed at standard gauge floating elastic medium and damped by inertia of measured mass held in a 8 Mx 2m box enclosure, supported over a 1m dia. columns spaced at 15 m and located at 15 m distance from each other, in the divider space in between lanes on a road- way, at a height of 8m above road surface- provides the support and guidance for powered bogies which can run at 100 kmph, with the coach shells suspended below , carry passengers in air conditioned comfort, can follow existing road routes, while existing traffic on roads continue
Why Sky Bus saves 50% to 75% in costs?
Conventional railway provides for heavy steel coaches to protect people from derailments and capsizing. So carry more steel and dead weight instead of people.
Sky Bus has no such problem; no derailment nor capsizing; hence uses very light weight coaches and carries more people using much less dead weight
So Sky Bus requires Only 50m long stations to service 900 persons every 40 sec. While existing metro system need 200m and 90 sec.
With total weight of 48T, a railway can carry only 70 persons in 20m length
Sky Bus with the same weight & length carries 300 persons comfortably
WORKING PRINCIPLE
• Standard railway coach running on railway track
• The under-frame remains same, railway wheels run on the same track, the coach is firmly attached to the under-frame positively .
•The under-frame with wheels and railway traction motors & railway track enclosed in the concrete box- travel on the railway track , carrying the coach below outside the concrete box- now the coach and the track are positively held together- cannot escape from rails!