Samenvatting
The winning of commuters from cars to public transport requires vehicles which are quiet, vibration-free, pollution-free, easy for handicapped, elderly and small children to enter and leave, and less dependent on scarcer and dearer petroleum fuels, which need to be conserved for long distance transportation. Townobile System is a purpose-built range of electric city buses with infrastructure developed over 12 years to please passengers and operators on all counts, and is an example of how electric engineering development can meet the identified real needs of people.