Powered by electric rails on either side of the road, engineers tout the invention as a breakthrough that requires no additional real estate to build and construction costs at just 20 percent of those needed to dig a subway.
The concept was debuted as the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB) in 2010, but recently resurfaced at this year’s Beijing High-Tech Show. A real-life deployment of the technology is scheduled somewhere in China this year.
Concept images of the project and details on the vehicle's features, like built-in elevators, can be viewed in the videos below.
