Overhead power lines, bridges and box trucks beware: The giant, lane-straddling bus Chinese engineers hope will someday conquer that country's legendary traffic by swallowing it whole is one step ...

It's not that often that one of those crazy-looking transportation concepts you see on the cover of an old 1950s Popular Mechanics comes true, but I'm delighted to say that's happened. In China, a ...

China is home to more people than any other country on Earth, and they're moving into megacities at a rate that's simply unprecedented. In fact, just about everything about today's China is ...

The giant Straddling Bus we reported on earlier this year could be headed to the U.S. This week the inventor of the bus, Mr. Song Youzhou, announced that his Shenzhen-based company is aiming to form ...

Last summer, a seemingly cool "straddling bus" project in China made headlines. The futuristic thing swooped above traffic on rails at the side and center of the road. Well, after a whole lot of ...

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China has unveiled its much anticipated “straddling bus.” Spanning two lanes of traffic, the “bus” is essentially a moving tunnel, traveling on tracks on the far side of each lane while leaving ...

The Hyperloop may help humanity travel great distances at remarkable speeds, but how should we sustainably get from point A to B in congested cities? An innovative public transport design looked like ...

Inventions are not always what they seem. This is particularly the case when a device or design appears to magically solve all your problems. Last week we wrote about the prototype of a “bus” that ...

If you start seeing long worm-like vehicles swallowing up cars on Chinese highways, don't be alarmed. The country is just solving its massive traffic problem. These odd-looking vehicles are known as ...

What do you do if your roads are congested and polluted? Try designing a vehicle that takes up no road space. And make it partly solar powered. A company in the southern Chinese town of Shenzhen has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Seriously though, the idea (and this more conservative incarnation of it) has some real merit. Engineering-wise, it’s really not ...