PHILEAS
Phileas
Phileas is a bus rapid transit, developed by Samenwerkingsverband Regio Eindhoven, Netherlands, along with some other companies for the Cooperation Foundation Eindhoven Region . It is an advanced guided bus intended to deliver tram-like public transport at a very low cost: the infrastructure is much cheaper, because of less maintenance, and there are no rails and overhead lines. The biggest feature of the bus is the recharging of the battery by means of electromagnetic induction; which means that the battery can be made much smaller, and thus less heavy and environmentally damaging. The project was created in the late 1990s; there was a wish to demonstrate the ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Phileas (public transport)
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