Long Bus, Short Wait Green transport in Curitiba

摘要

On april 5, luciano ducci, the mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, boarded the world's largest urban bus on its inaugural ride across town, marking yet another coup for the city's transportation system. Powered exclusively by biofuels (made from soybeans), the 92-ft.long (28 m) megabus can carry 250 passengers at a time and makes just four stops along a 6-mile (10 km) route. With a projected fleet of 24 vehicles, the system will ferry an average of 25,000 people per day. Curitiba may be the original smart city. In the early 1960s, it was plagued by sprawl and congestion.