Thursday, February 11, 2016

Hanging Carts as public transport to relieve pressure from on the traffic

Hanging Carts as public transport to relieve pressure from on the traffic 
- Khoundkar Latifa Yasmin 
- Sheikh Anwar Ullah Khoundkar Aakash

In the developing countries like Bangladesh, India etc etc. traffic jam can be a serious problem for the people. Social, religious and political programmes being held in the streets and construction works in the streets adds up extra trouble.


Heavy traffic jams in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Picture shows large number of busses including official ones stuck in very heavy (seemingly impossible to come out of) traffic, costing people their valuable work time and also oil and gas being wasted in large quantities every day by each vehicle stuck in the traffic.

Haphazard driving in zigzag patterns usually causes most of the traffic jams.

Constitution machine and materials blocking up over 80% of the width of the road, seriously causing hardship for the people.


An ambulance carrying emergency patientto the hospital, stuck in traffic.

Sometimes you just wish some super hero in a flying robot armour would come down and give you a lift and save the day. ... seriously!

If only there was a way to get around this, so much work time and fuel could be saved. What if we could go over it then??


Hanging Carts going over the main roads serving as new public transport may relieve the traffic problem to some extent.
Large tall pillars with strong foundation reinforced with steel tendons will be made to hold up the tracks. Large steel alloy pipes may be used as hanging tracks just like roller coasters. 

These pipes will be held fastened with strong with bridge engineering and held with arches and steel tendons. This may reduce the traffic jams as construction of train bridge/hanging cart tracks may take less than constructing an entire bridge. As the rail bridge parts may be construed else where and pieces can be just brought and assembled at the site.
Also building pillars and assembling parts constructed elsewhere would block less space on the road during construction works.

Ultra light materials such as aluminium alloys, carbon fibre and fibre glass materials would be used to construct the Carts so they maybe light enough to safety travel over the rail tracks of the bridge. The entire vehicle system shall be like a combination of that of a roller coaster seen in the amusement park and cable carts in tourist spots.

There will be pillars at regular intervals. They will be as close to each other as possible for safety reasons. There will be as many pillars as possible. And there will be strong platforms as a safety precaution.



There will be bus stops at regular intervals so people may get on and off where they need. People will come and wait under the overpass at the bus stop and wait for the bus. A ticket collector shall be present at the station to help them get on the bus. When the bus arives, people will climb up the stairs and get to the platform from where they'll get on the bus/cart.

There willbe two lanes side by side, for the carts/buses to be going the opposite ways.

These vehicle system shall be created over the most important and most used routes, over highways and main roads.

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