CRI听力:China tests homegrown transit elevated bus on road

The transit elevated bus TEB-1 is on road test in Qinhuangdao, north China's Hebei Province, Aug. 2, 2016. China's home-made transit elevated bus, TEB-1, conducted a road test running Tuesday. The 22-meter-long, 7.8-meter-wide and 4.8-meter-high TEB-1 can carry up to 300 passengers. The passenger compartment of this futuristic public bus rises far above other vehicles on the road, allowing cars to pass underneath. [Photo: Xinhua]

The first test of an elevated bus concept has taken place in the coastal city of Qinhuangdao in Hebei.

At 22-meters long and 8-meters wide, the elevated bus allows traffic to run underneath it while running on tracks on either side of the road.

It can carry as many as 300 passengers at a time.

Designers of the elevated bus say it has the potential to cut traffic congestion by as much as 35-percent in certain areas of a city.

The state of the art concept has been under consideration in China for a number of years, but is just now undergoing testing.

For more on this, CRI's Bob Jones spoke earlier with Jiang Chen, lecturer with the Department of Transportation Design at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

That was Jiang Chen, Lecturer with the Department of Transportation Design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, speaking with CRI's Bob Jones.