Comparación entre diferentes tipos de autobuses de gran capacidad

• Autores: R. McLeod
• Localización: Revista A.I.T., ISSN 0378-3294, Nº. 45, 1982, págs. 64-83
• Idioma: español
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  • Comparison between different types of buses
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• Resumen

  • The future offers many possibilities of expanding worldwide the role of public transport systems. In the very developed countries, energy conservation, heavy circulation densities and increase of individual transport costs are some other reasons for promoting the role of public transport systems. In developing countries, people’s mobility will have an increasing significance while its economies are progressing and there is a more centralized production.

    The comparative study of high-capacity buses examines the relative costs, the operation’s problems and possibilities, service quality, environmental aspects and infrastructure. This study does not try to give a standard answer nor to propose a more suitable choice, but to quantify and stand out those aspects to be considered concerning the choice of those types of vehicles more suited to the needs of a particular operating zone, whatever this would be.

    In some cases, the operator’s choice will be partially or completely limited by infrastructure problems in the operation, or by legal regulations, etc. When the choice really exists, it is convenient to preserve the costs –capacity equilibrium, and the one between the operation’s convenience and the passenger’s comfort. In this case, potential capacity, trip’s characteristics, minimal estimated frequency, speed, comfort, etc., must be evaluated.

    The choice of the vehicle’s more suitable type, whatever the considered zone would be, could depend on some complex factors, with more or less importance; some would have a subjective origin while others would have an historic one.

    If the harmonization work on national legislations subjects could be speeded up and accepted by most of the countries, the operating enterprises would achieve some advantages. The external dimensions of the vehicle, axle loads, seat spacing, area reserved for standing passenger, exits, power/weight ratios, braking exigencies, etc. are the subject of many national regulations that often prevent the company from specifying which are the more suitable vehicles for its own operational exigencies.