Computer Sciences
Accurately predicting the arrival times of buses is of key importance, particularly in hectic urban environments. Providing people with efficient and timely transportation can discourage them from using private vehicles, ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Visitors pouring into Japan's Haneda airport for the Tokyo Olympics next year may find themselves ferried to and from planes on driverless buses, currently being tested at the major hub.
Jan 22, 2019
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Computer Sciences
In Fortaleza—the fifth-largest city in Brazil—cars jam the streets, bicycles weave through traffic and bus stops are crowded with passengers who might have to wait much longer than expected to catch their ride.
Oct 13, 2016
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Hi Tech & Innovation
(Tech Xplore)—There is lots to be happy about in looking at a future bus. Your ability to enjoy the bus would be thanks to forward thinkers like the teams at Daimler Buses. Imagine a day at Schiphol airport.
Automotive
It was seven years ago that Matthew Belasco started worrying about the health of students riding the bus at Pittsburg Unified in California. As he watched hundreds of youth pile onto the big yellow vehicles each day, his ...
Feb 27, 2024
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Computer Sciences
In 2009, an Air France jet crashed into the ocean, leaving no survivors. The plane's autopilot system shut down and the pilots, having become reliant on their computerized assistant, were unable to correct the situation manually.
Feb 26, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
A team of researchers from Mass Eye and Ear have developed a micro-navigation smartphone app to provide assistance to those who are blind or visually impaired (BVI) in finding their bus stops, and a new study published in ...
Jan 29, 2024
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Engineering
New technology has allowed scientists to see how a major sporting event can disrupt public transportation in an entire city for hours before and after the event.
Dec 19, 2023
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Automotive
In California's vast northern rural school districts, with their mountain passes and long, snowy winters, the typical electric bus' range is not nearly enough. West Valley is one of Lassen High's nearest athletic opponents. ...
Dec 13, 2023
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Automotive
On a rainy afternoon in Shenzhen, damp passengers jostle their way onto the megacity's buses, the quiet foot soldiers of an electric revolution for coal-guzzling China's public transport network.
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A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, or autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus seat a maximum of 8 to 300 passengers. Buses are widely used public transportation.
The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses. A luxury bus is called a coach. A bus is powered by a combustion engine, although early buses were horse drawn and there were experiments with steam propulsion. Trolleybuses use overhead power lines. In parallel with the car industry bus manufacturing is increasingly globalised, with the same design appearing around the world.
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