@yugthebug the grass patch up the middle of Port Road should be converted back into a waterway from the city to the Port and allow for special buses that can float and that have the little side wheels so they can scoot down the special Water-Bahn track.
O-Bahn: Weder Bus noch Bahn 🚍✨ Mercedes-Benz entwickelte in den 80ern ein Hybridsystem mit Spurführung. Günstig, flexibel, bis 100 km/h. Systeme in Adelaide, Essen, UK.
👉 Meine Einschätzung: Kreative Lösung für mittlere Städte. Doch limitierte Kapazität und Wartungsaufwand sprechen für klassische Straßenbahnen bei hoher Nachfrage.
(Video Credits to Rory Ding, 22.06.2024, via YT, "Adelaide OBahn: A Combination of Bus and Train!")
1,221 likes, 108 comments - sigorvision on February 21, 2025: "Bus switches from the road to obahn without stopping. Follow @sigorvision #Australia #Adelaide #nofilter #publictransport #bus #busobahn #busoban #bustrain #bustrack #transportation #Adelaidebusobahn #obahn #oban #engineering #solutions #notraffic #tunnel #bridge #nofilter #sigorvision #sigormusic".
The #adelaide O-Bahn Klemzig Interchange.
The O-Bahn is a #bus based mass transit system in Adelaide, South Australia.
This is probably the most unusual mass transit system I've encountered. The buses run on a dedicated roadway. The frequency of buses was more than one each minute while I observed it. It seems to me the flexibility of using buses (which can go on any road at each end of the system, I assume) rather than rail-based systems would seem to be advantageous for a flexible mass transit system. I wonder whether the operation cost per passenger might be higher than an equivalent rail-based system?
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@maegul @[email protected] @poVoq Here's a video on the Adelaide O-Bahn: https://youtu.be/ozjHHsHt1IE
My question was more around if you want a single seat journey that runs as a bus down local streets, then follows a track, why not build a guided busway, like the O-Bahn?
Instead of the extra mechanical complexity that comes with fitting the wheels-to-rails conversion mechanism, you just need to attach a couple of guide wheels to the bus' steering mechanism.
If @AussieWirraway is around, he can explain more about how it works. But it seems to me, in most cases, a buided busway is a better option than a bus-train.
#bus #obahn #sa #SouthAustralia #Adelaide #train #trains #PublicTransport #MassTransit
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