Short routes, big impacts: smart and clean transportation

Respond to gaps in daily travels in large cities through a new small-scale public transport based on clean energy and a capillary system.

Long description

We aim to create a new small-scale public transport system, that responds to gaps of displacements in São Paulo, it offers new routes that aren’t attended by the regular system and hardly made by foot, as a consequence, users choose the car. It’ll also be operated through clean energy technology. As a result it brings benefits to the environment and traffic jam.

It’s possible through shorter routes, that will have few static stops for charge, serving strategic areas and easily adapted through apps that show the users needs.

The system will offer buses with capacity up to 20 users, running on clean electric power provided by supercapacitors, which are electrical energy storage devices, that can be recharged very quickly, between 10 to 80 seconds. The supercapacitors of the bus is recharged at stops by pantographs while passengers are getting in or out of the bus.

With up to 5 km of driving range, supercapacitors are more reliable, faster and more durable than batteries and cleaner and less complex than internal combustion systems. Furthermore, buses equipped with supercapacitors consume 30 to 50 percent less energy than other electric vehicles. Although this type of transportation technology is already a reality in China and US, this project aims to apply this technology to the brazilian vehicles.

Thus, the project aims to integrate urban planners visions and technological capacity of researchers for the benefit of the sustainable development of São Paulo.