WO2003013933A1

WO2003013933A1 - Transport system using motor buses or trolley buses with restricted passenger means of getting on and off

Info

Publication number: WO2003013933A1
Application number: PCT/MX2002/000075
Authority: WO
Inventors: Eduardo Ayala Vargas
Original assignee: Eduardo Ayala Vargas
Priority date: 2001-08-09
Filing date: 2002-08-08
Publication date: 2003-02-20
Also published as: MXPA01008044A

Abstract

The invention relates to a passenger transport system that operates on public ways using motor buses or trolley buses that have been modified such that persons cannot get on or off said buses easily except at designated stops in the system. The modifications made to said buses comprise the removal of the steps that passengers can use to get on and off at almost any location and the use of a directional control mechanism which is incorporated in the front axle of the vehicle and which operates together with a guide channel that is fixed to the platform at each stop. A television camera is disposed at the front end of the vehicle in order to capture and transmit an image of the right front axle to a monitor that is installed in the instrument panel of the vehicle so that the driver can direct said axle along a guide channel which is painted on the ground. In this way, vehicle drivers can ensure that the wheels of the directional mechanism are inserted in the guide channels when the vehicle arrives at a stop.

Description

TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM THROUGH BUSES OR TROLEBUSES WITH ASCENT AND DESCENT OF PASSENGERS RESTRICTED. BACKGROUND OF PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION IN THE CONURBED AREA OF THE CITY OF MEXICO.

Until now, the public transport of passengers that takes place in the metropolitan area of Mexico City is carried out in buses, minibuses and trolleybuses provided with steps in all the doors to raise or lower these automotive vehicles from anywhere on the public highway , which has evidently been the cause of the very old and dangerous custom of dealing with the raising or lowering of these vehicles with relative ease in any place, and in fact, this is the only reason why the authorities responsible for monitoring the Urban transport service have failed to ensure that the ascent and descent of passengers is carried out only at the sites designated by the authority, despite the efforts that have been made.

With the absolute certainty of being able to eradicate immediately, this serious and dangerous custom and other causes that are well known and that also significantly affect the circulation of other vehicles that are totally alien to the public transport systems of people, the system has been developed of transport described below in this application, in order to protect it by patent; this transport system that includes, in addition to vehicles with restricted ascent and descent of passengers, stations (or bus stops) with elevated platforms at the same level as the floor of the vehicles and the necessary means to make the payment of the service by means of "smart payment cards "that can be acquired in different commercial establishments.

Note: for reasons of simplicity, this application refers only to the use of buses because this description is completely extensive to the use of minibuses and trolleybuses. DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The characteristic details of this people transport system are clearly shown in the following description with the help of the accompanying drawings as an illustration of that, using the same reference signs to indicate the same parts in the following figures:

Figure 1, are the longitudinal and plan views showing a bus like those currently used for urban service in which the necessary modifications have been made to be used in this transport system, these modifications are limited only to the following:

1. The suppression of the steps below the side doors.

2. The adaptation on the front axle of the tires of a mechanism to automatically guide the buses on the station platforms. 3. The installation of a television camera at the front end focused to capture and transmit in closed circuit to the screen of a small television receiver installed on the dashboard of the bus, the image of the route that the front tire of the side Right you must continue to roll on a guide rail that is painted on the surface of the vehicular stream on a stretch of 30 to 40 meters before reaching the stations.

Figure 2 are the longitudinal, transverse, and plan views of the directional mechanism that automatically guides the buses used in this transport system, from the entrance to the exit of the station platforms. Figure 3 are the longitudinal, transverse and plan views of the side doors for the ascent and descent of passengers, including at the lower end a retractable platform that works in combination with the opening and closing of said side doors.

Figure 4, are the longitudinal, transverse and plan views of a station with a narrow platform that has at one end the devices to make the payment of the service by means of a coded payment card that each person you must insert a tourniquet to allow only the person who inserted the payment card to enter the platform, while at the other end of the platform a tourniquet is installed that prevents the return of passengers to buses, and also the entry of people to the station from public roads.

Figure 4A is a station like the one described in the previous paragraph, except that its platform is wider, and in which the entry and exit accesses are located side by side at the same front or rear end of the station. Figure 5 is a plan view showing the outline of a guide rail that is the same width as that of the bearing surface of the tires of the buses used in this transport system, which should be painted in color white on the bearing surface that guides the bus drivers so that the front tire on the right side rolls exactly on said guide rail, so that the horizontal guide wheels of the directional mechanism shown in Figure 2, can be Insert and roll into the guide channel that is fixed on the platform of each of the stations.

With reference to Figure 1, it can be seen that buses with restricted ascent and descent of passengers (No.7), used in this transport system are essentially the same as buses that are currently in service, with the only difference that below the side doors of entry (No.8), and exit (No.9), the steps that are necessary to get on or off the buses currently in use have been suppressed, on the other hand, the second difference consists in which the front directional axis of buses with restricted ascent and descent of passengers that are used in this transport system have the aforementioned automatic directional control mechanism incorporated.

It can also be seen at the front end of the bus (No.7), that a television camera (No.24) is installed at the floor level, with a reflector directed to illuminate the front side of the tire (No.19) , corresponding to the right side, and a short section of the surface of the public road on which said tire is rolling (No.19), so that the television camera (No.24), can capture and transmit in closed circuit to a small television receiver (No.25), which is placed on the dashboard of these buses (No.7), the image of the path that the bus driver must follow to that the tire (No.19), mentioned above, can roll exactly on the guide rail (No.21), so that when the buses (No.7) arrive at the stations, the horizontal wheels (No.14), of the guide mechanism can be inserted and rolled inside the guide channel (No.15), which is fixed to the platforms (No.16). The guide channels (No.15), have the function of keeping constant the reduced separation between the buses (No.7), and the platforms (No.16), which should be 6 to 8 centimeters to prevent the passengers can inadvertently step on an empty space, if the separation between buses and platforms is greater. On the other hand, at the front end, below the bus floor (No.7), the field or area that the television camera (No.24) covers for the collection of objects is shown with oblique and parallel spectral lines. within which is the lower front part of the rim (No.19), on the right side and a short segment of the guide rail (No.21), which is painted on the vehicular stream near the stations.

The television camera (No.24), is protected by the baffle plate (No.22), against small objects or rainwater that are raised and expelled tangentially by the rotation of the tire (No.19), in the direction of the television camera (No.24), and by the plate (No.23), against water and objects that for some reason are expelled in a vertical direction.

Figure 2 shows the mechanism for directional control that acts in combination with the guide channel (No.15), which is fixed to the platforms (No.16); said mechanism consists of a frame (No.10), which in its central part is fixed to the articulated yoke (No.11) on the right side of the front axles used in buses and trucks, using the same thymes (No.12) used to fix the lower cover of the master bolt (No.17), on both ends of the frame (No.10), the axes (No.13), of the wheels of the horizontal guides (No.14), which transmit to the articulated yoke (No.11), the changes of direction ordered by the guide channels (No.15).

In figure 3, it is shown that the side entry doors (No.8), and exit doors (No.9), of the buses (No.7), used in this transport system, are of the folding leaf type , which open to the outside of the buses, and that each door consists of two halves formed by the assembly of two sections or semi-doors (No.26), which are joined together by hinges, on the other side below the lower end of each of these doors, there is a retractable platform (No.27), which is operated by means of compressed air by means of the two pneumatic pistons (No.28), which act in combination with the opening and closing of their respective doors .

The use of a pneumatic piston (No.28), to drive each end of the platforms is because the purpose of these platforms is to completely cover the empty space, which inevitably remains between the side of the buses (No .7), and the platforms (No.16), and since the width of said empty space can be variable, the best solution is the impulsion by means of pneumatic pistons because the thrust of these pistons, that is, the displacement of the retractable platforms (No.27), be stopped for their impact against the side of the platforms (No.16), but as you can not ensure that the doors (No.8) and (No.9), are open until the buses are completely immobile on the platforms, the platforms (No.27), are equipped with the rollers (No.29) so that, in the event that the doors (No.8) and (No, 9), are open with the buses still moving, the rollers (No.29), can roll on the side of the an denes (No.16), at very reduced speeds.

SEASONS

The stations (or bus stops) to get on and off the buses (No.7), used in this transport system basically consist of a platform (No.16), which has the same height as the bus floor (No .7), this platform is divided into two independent sections, separated by a cancel (No.30), the section corresponding to the front end of the buses is intended to be addressed by the side door (No.8), this section is arrives directly from the public road through the entrance staircase (No.31), and the passage through the payment control turnstile (No.32), which is activated by inserting the "payment card mentioned above" .

The rear section of the platform (No.16), corresponds to the area that is momentarily occupied, by passengers who have already left the buses through the rear side door (No.9), and who are waiting to leave the stations passing through the tourniquet of no return (No.33), and the exit stairway to public roads (No.34).

Figure 4 shows a station provided with all the devices described in the previous paragraph, whose platform has a width of only 1.30 meters, and which is appropriate to be built on sidewalks that have a minimum width of 2.5 meters to allow passage of people between said platform (No.16), and the houses or buildings adjacent to the station. However, the construction of this kind of stations is only possible if the houses or buildings adjacent to the station do not have garages for car parking.

In figure 4 ^a , another type of station is shown provided with the same devices that the previous station has, with the only difference that its platform (No.16), has a width of 2.2 meters, and that the entrance turnstiles and output (No.32) and (No.33), respectively are installed side by side at the front or rear end of the station.

Finally, in figure 5, it is shown in a scale of 1: 200, the way in which a station with a narrow platform (No.16) can be built as described in figure 4, on a bench of 2.5 meters wide belonging to a street or avenue of twelve meters wide and a single direction of movement, on which the guide rail is painted (No.21).

For the reasons mentioned above, it can be affirmed that the characteristics inherent to this transport system offer considerable advantages to improve the public transport service of people in cities that are not in a position to be able to pay the very high investment that is necessary for the establishment of a transport system that uses trains with metal wheels of the rail type or special design wheels that roll on exclusive lanes such as the Mexico City Metro which can carry large numbers of passengers that inevitably gather in some stations, which has given rise to the birth of problems as serious as they are, the congestion of all kinds of vehicles and people who travel on public roads, the lack of security for passengers, the anarchic proliferation of passenger feeder vehicles, food vendors, most of they prepared without any hygiene in the same place in which they are sold, consumed and the leftovers are thrown anywhere, promoting the rapid and uncontrollable propagation of animals that feed on the waste of these foods.

Claims

CLAIMS Having described this invention sufficiently that I consider as a novelty, I claim as my exclusive property what is contained in the following clauses:

1. A system for the transport of people that includes buses of special design and stations with the necessary devices to be able to use said buses, which are characterized by, a) that do not have steps below the side doors, b) because the axis To control the direction of movement, it is also operated by a mechanism that acts in combination with a guide rail that is fixed on the platform of each station, c) because at the front end of these buses a television camera focused on capture the image of at least one front tire and a segment of the surface on which said tires are rolling, d) because on the dashboard of each bus a television monitor connected in closed circuit with the television camera is installed previously mentioned, e) because a retractable platform is installed under each side door.

2. A system for the transport of persons as described in clause 1, characterized in that in said buses the automatic directional control mechanism is suppressed and in the platform of each station the above-mentioned guide channel.

3. A system for the transport of people as described in clause 1, characterized in that in retractable buses such retractable platforms are suppressed.

4. A system for the transport of persons as described in clause 1, characterized in that instead of said buses trolleybuses are used with the same characteristics described for said buses.

5. A system for the transport of persons as described in clause 4, characterized in that in said trolleybus and platform the mechanism for automatic directional control, and the guide channel, respectively, are suppressed. A system for the transport of people as described in clause 4, characterized in that in said trolleybuses the retractable platforms are suppressed.