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City Swing, a Green Alternative to the Yellow Cab

By Aart van Bezooijen - December 4, 2007

More and more cities are getting clogged with traffic. Reason enough for Gert-Jan van Breugel to propose a more sustainable alternative for a fast and flexible travel.

The City Swing is a hybrid motorbike cab with seats for three people. Driven by bio-fuel or electricity, and by making use of bus-only lanes, the motorbike cab is faster, more economical and less polluting than present-day cabs.

More pictures after the jump!

The City Swing has room for three people and is 65% smaller then a regular taxi.

The motorbike cab offers multiple passenger/luggage configurations.

City Swing's on Broadway means no air pollution and no engine noise.

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Aart van Bezooijen

Aart van Bezooijen is a Dutch optimist and motivator for materials in design. He lives and works in Hamburg where he founded Material Stories (2005) to inspire and enable the best use of materials to make design more competitive, creative and sustainable.

2011 he explored sustainable solutions from around the world during the "It's Not Easy Being Green" project with graphic designer Paula Raché. He co-organized the Materials Café exhibitions at the Hannover Messe in Germany, the world's leading trade fair for industrial technology. Since 2012, he works as Professor for Material and Technology Transfer at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle growing a new materials library.