An invention by the CRRC called Autonomous Rapid Transit is a hybrid between a bus and streetcar.
of commuters use mass rapid transit like subways, and U.S. rail projects can cost billions of dollars and take decades to complete.
"Cities all over the world have proposed light rail systems that either get greatly reduced or don't happen at all because of the expense of putting rail in the roadbed. It's highly disruptive to the business community," said Lisa Chamberlain, a communications lead for the Global Centre for Urban Transformation at the World Economic Forum. "For residents, it's very expensive.
A Chinese company has a radical new solution. It's a train-bus hybrid that runs on rubber wheels but follows a predetermined track. It's called Autonomous Rapid Transit , and it's made by the CRCC, a Chinese mass transit manufacturer. "So I went there thinking, this is going to be something hiding like a bus," said Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. "It'll look like a light rail, but it is, in fact, a bus. But when I rode it, it was dramatically different. I could find myself feeling like I was on a train."
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