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Posted by hipstomp | 9 Dec 2008
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UK designer Hugh Frost had an insightful thought: Since both packages and people need to travel around cities, why not kill two birds with one stone? His resultant solution:
The Freight*BUS is a massive new vehicle featuring advanced technology and the ability to adapt to varying numbers of passengers and freight. This flexibility is in part due to ceiling-suspended pairs of seats, which can be completely folded out of the way.At night, or during off-peak times of day, Frost envisages his Freight*BUS being utilised to carry goods around the city, with a capacity of the equivalent to 35 standard 'europallets'. To aid loading and unloading, Frost has designed a palletless system.
Frost is currently seeking backers for the concept; if you know someone with deep pockets, send 'em here.
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reminds me of the tank the guild navigators live in from Dune.
Looks like he's trying to improve upon Greyhound's long standing ability of being able to ship cargo via bus. Problem with it, is that the likelihood that someone wants to send pallets of goods from one certain city to the next (or people to the same place as pallets) is slim to none. Greyhound's typically have 3 or 4 single boxes on them at a given time. Its an interesting concept, but it would take a massive infrastructure to execute.
as said above, naive,
those modifications in order to allow cargo would skyrocket the price of a public transport vehicle, offering only disadvantages in comparison to the established fashion (and that is simply: a bus to carry people where they have to go and a truck/van to deliver cargo where it needs to be)