Seating management - city amp; bus rapid transport buses (brts)

摘要

This invention relates to seating arrangement in city buses & buses used for rapid transport. The seats used here are of the tip up type having a cushion which springs back to vertical position by default. Two horizontal rails (6) are mounted one on each side wall of the bus. The tip up seats are installed over the extrusions by a pivoting mechanism (3) which is also capable of sliding across the rails. The standee space [5] inside the bus is increased in either of two ways. One, the tip up seats in the closed or default condition are pivoted & aligned with the side wall of the bus or two, the seats are pushed along the rail either towards the front or rear of the vehicle , thereby creating extremely free space devoid of seats for standee passengers. Figure 3