Samenvatting
A France transportation research group identifies and reviews 51 projects dealing with innovative buses capable of more efficient fuel utilization. Solutions to the public transport problem Europe faces in its congested cities include electric-battery city buses, trolley buses, mechanical energy storage systems based on high-speed fly-wheels that feed electric motors. Also reviewed are four steam bus projects now in operation, reports on dial-a-bus systems, gas bus systems, and automatic vehicle monitoring.