If you live in a large city and rely on public transport to get around, there is a strong possibility that you will suffer daily from slow traffic. By the way, on a particularly busy day, you might even have thought you could fly over all the vehicles on the road to get to your destination faster.

Because you were not the only person who thought of this kind of solution to dribble cars! A few days ago, during the International High-Tech Expo in Beijing, a team of engineers came up with the design of a suspended bus that travels over the roads - and seems to swallow vehicles on the way. See the following image:

Doesn't it look like the bus is swallowing the cars?

Bus

The project, called the Transit Elevated Bus, involves an electric vehicle that would run on rails and could carry up to 1, 400 passengers. The bus (the creators refer to it as a bus, not a train) would travel at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour - much faster than many buses out there! - and would function as a kind of mobile tunnel moving over traffic. Watch the video below:

According to the engineers, the bus would allow cars up to two meters high to circulate quietly under it and, according to the initial proposal, it would occupy two lanes. As you saw in the video, Land Airbus (this is the name of the bus) would be equivalent to a subway system, but would cost 80% less to implement. Road construction time would also be shorter - after all, they would be installed on existing roads and streets.

In addition, each Land Airbus could replace up to 40 conventional buses, resulting in a cut in fuel consumption of 800 tons and a reduction in pollutant gas emissions by more than 2, 400 tons annually.

Model presented during the fair in Beijing

It is estimated that the system could be installed in just one year, but the project has raised some concern about safety. The model presented by the engineers had no crash barriers and did not consider what would be the circulation with heavier vehicles such as vans and small trucks. However, the first tests with the buses are scheduled to begin between July and August in China.