I think...
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that Singapore Buses should be like Germany's...
Germany buses have hydraulic facility for bringing the steps lower to allow old people to easy board the bus. When the hydraulic deactivates (or activate, im not too sure) the bus will tilt in an angle around 5~10 degrees down towards to bus stop. Before closing doors, it will activate and the bus is in upright position again.
It has a system whereby when it stops at every busstop, it will annouce the busstop name (or rather street name).
Together with the streetname appearing in a screen mounted at the top (like LEDs but better than that, also duno call wat =_=) so that you will not miss your busstop and need not look around to see if you are alighting at the right busstop or not.
Sometimes singapore drivers very powderful, they full blast the air con, causes the condensation on the windows.. Cannot see where u are at all. ~_~"
So with these facilities, I am sure there would be lesser chance of "XIA CUO ZHAN LA!" -
last time when the stupid ezlink was not auto yet .....
the bus driver always press the num of stage wrongly ........ always hai wo get
down on the wrong stage ........
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hmm.. don't think they would hav tat bah.. even if they have it, they'd make travellin via public transport so exp... u'd be considerin ur own car after a while
prefer that kinda system tho
esp for blur sotongs like me 
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Ya mi too! hahax~ always have to bring a bus guide along.. But at germany, u will not get lost at all! =DOriginally posted by shinta:hmm.. don't think they would hav tat bah.. even if they have it, they'd make travellin via public transport so exp... u'd be considerin ur own car after a while
prefer that kinda system tho esp for blur sotongs like me -
You mean you want the LED to display something like this
CURRENT STOP: Scotts Rd Far East Plaza ........ NEXT STOP: Orchard Rd Tang Plaza ? -
ok next time we will have anti-gravity vehicles where we can fly not drive
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nah.. not really the bus guide, but more like.. i can't recognise the placeOriginally posted by miwitch:Ya mi too! hahax~ always have to bring a bus guide along.. But at germany, u will not get lost at all! =D -
sounds good?Originally posted by tranquilice:You mean you want the LED to display something like this CURRENT STOP: Scotts Rd Far East Plaza ........ NEXT STOP: Orchard Rd Tang Plaza ?
the trains are havin it.. isn it? -
Haloo long time no see ....Originally posted by miwitch:that Singapore Buses should be like Germany's...
Germany buses have hydraulic facility for bringing the steps lower to allow old people to easy board the bus. When the hydraulic deactivates (or activate, im not too sure) the bus will tilt in an angle around 5~10 degrees down towards to bus stop. Before closing doors, it will activate and the bus is in upright position again.
It has a system whereby when it stops at every busstop, it will annouce the busstop name (or rather street name).
Together with the streetname appearing in a screen mounted at the top (like LEDs but better than that, also duno call wat =_=) so that you will not miss your busstop and need not look around to see if you are alighting at the right busstop or not.
Sometimes singapore drivers very powderful, they full blast the air con, causes the condensation on the windows.. Cannot see where u are at all. ~_~"
So with these facilities, I am sure there would be lesser chance of "XIA CUO ZHAN LA!"
I agree Singapore need to upgrand, they made profit every year and still no upgrand now want increase price!!! upgrand first !!! -
Which is also known as the "Kneeling" function.Originally posted by miwitch:that Singapore Buses should be like Germany's...
Germany buses have hydraulic facility for bringing the steps lower to allow old people to easy board the bus. When the hydraulic deactivates (or activate, im not too sure) the bus will tilt in an angle around 5~10 degrees down towards to bus stop. Before closing doors, it will activate and the bus is in upright position again.
This feature can be found in Singapore buses as well, especially the Volvo Super Olympians (SBS 98xx-series), the Tridents (SBS 9671-9690-series) and single-decks such as the Volvo B10M Mk4 DM3500, the CNG buses as well as SBS 1688K and SBS 2888T.
Correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK, this feature is manually-operated by the driver. -
wah.. very technical stuff over here wor...Originally posted by Superbus:Which is also known as the "Kneeling" function.
This feature can be found in Singapore buses as well, especially the Volvo Super Olympians (SBS 98xx-series), the Tridents (SBS 9671-9690-series) and single-decks such as the Volvo B10M Mk4 DM3500, the CNG buses as well as SBS 1688K and SBS 2888T.
Correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK, this feature is manually-operated by the driver.
dunno wat series u're talkin about
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DM3500 got kneeling function? I thought only stepless buses had it.Originally posted by Superbus:Which is also known as the "Kneeling" function.
This feature can be found in Singapore buses as well, especially the Volvo Super Olympians (SBS 98xx-series), the Tridents (SBS 9671-9690-series) and single-decks such as the Volvo B10M Mk4 DM3500, the CNG buses as well as SBS 1688K and SBS 2888T.
Correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK, this feature is manually-operated by the driver. -
Thought this kneeling function is onli introduced b4 VSO and most probably can b found on it?Originally posted by Superbus:Which is also known as the "Kneeling" function.
This feature can be found in Singapore buses as well, especially the Volvo Super Olympians (SBS 98xx-series), the Tridents (SBS 9671-9690-series) and single-decks such as the Volvo B10M Mk4 DM3500, the CNG buses as well as SBS 1688K and SBS 2888T.
Correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK, this feature is manually-operated by the driver. -
ah! cheem talks gg on >.<
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Originally posted by shinta:ah! cheem talks gg on >.<
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Originally posted by MeOwSuSan:
yeah...i support the three calls to upgrand! upgrand good! best is if buses have Gold class seats like GV Grand at Great World City! make it very grand!
Haloo long time no see ....
I agree Singapore need to upgrand, they made profit every year and still no upgrand now want increase price!!! upgrand first !!! -
Originally posted by NineGrains:
yeah...i support the three calls to [b]upgrand! upgrand good! best is if buses have Gold class seats like GV Grand at Great World City! make it very grand![/b] no lah i think she type to fast liao -
It has a system whereby when it stops at every busstop, it will annouce the busstop name (or rather street name).
In fact buses in Taipei City got this kind of system too
Together with the streetname appearing in a screen mounted at the top (like LEDs but better than that, also duno call wat =_=) so that you will not miss your busstop and need not look around to see if you are alighting at the right busstop or not.
It is "powered" by GPS. In Hong Kong, for KMB, they've
also got a similar system, but is manually-operated. ie
drivers have to press for showing any kind of information,
while driving on the road.
Drivers said it's in fact dangerous to press the machine
at every stop during driving. They have asked the company
to change the system into an automatically operated (GPS)
one. But KMB just refused...because expensive.
There're also cases that salary of drivers got cut because
they forget to press the machine for the next stop! So poor
are they!
So if there's any kind of this to be installed in Singapore,
it should be operated automatically by GPS, or else it would
be an unbearable extra workload for the poor drivers -
Of course it sounds good. Yes, trains are having such displays.Originally posted by shinta:sounds good?
the trains are havin it.. isn it? -
You may wish to see this threadOriginally posted by shinta:wah.. very technical stuff over here wor...
dunno wat series u're talkin about http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=112842 Look at the first post to see the various buses used here. -
Wow
A surprise to me that DM3500s have kneeling function. I really don't know that at all. -
very very chim leiOriginally posted by tranquilice:You may wish to see this thread http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=112842 Look at the first post to see the various buses used here.
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Nevermind then.Originally posted by shinta:very very chim lei
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Just wondering, did any of you guys saw any BCs using the above mentioned "kneeling" function? Cos i understand that buses also have their fair share of elderly n disabled (does not include wheelchair-bound) persons getting up the buses.Originally posted by Superbus:Which is also known as the "Kneeling" function.
This feature can be found in Singapore buses as well, especially the Volvo Super Olympians (SBS 98xx-series), the Tridents (SBS 9671-9690-series) and single-decks such as the Volvo B10M Mk4 DM3500, the CNG buses as well as SBS 1688K and SBS 2888T.
Correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK, this feature is manually-operated by the driver. -
That's the kneeling feature found in some citybuses. A few Scania bus-chassi in Singapore uses it since around 5 years ago. Useful to have but i wonder how well would it be used versus any known 'tradeoffs' compared to not using it ?
The bus-stop name indication is useful but i'll prefer just flashing the name on the LED interior panel (which already exist on TIBS buses here but now they use it to show time & temperature instead !) To make one's ride as quiet as possible, no need to announce audiably except when there's blind people on board which the driver would know of any.
The operators & or drivers here need to learn how to set more realistic air-con temperatures !!!! Of late i notice they simply set to the coldest @ full blast, which is not only wastage but is actually making people more uncomfortable than comfortable ! If there's condensation & they need to use wipers even to see outside (which stupidly seems quite common nowadays especially @ night)
then it's very obvious the setpoint temperature is too cold yet they can't seem bothered to make sensible adjustments ! Operators & drivers do need to wake up to deal with such wasteful & inefficient usage of the air-con !Originally posted by miwitch:that Singapore Buses should be like Germany's...
Germany buses have hydraulic facility for bringing the steps lower to allow old people to easy board the bus. When the hydraulic deactivates (or activate, im not too sure) the bus will tilt in an angle around 5~10 degrees down towards to bus stop. Before closing doors, it will activate and the bus is in upright position again.
It has a system whereby when it stops at every busstop, it will annouce the busstop name (or rather street name).
Together with the streetname appearing in a screen mounted at the top (like LEDs but better than that, also duno call wat =_=) so that you will not miss your busstop and need not look around to see if you are alighting at the right busstop or not.
Sometimes singapore drivers very powderful, they full blast the air con, causes the condensation on the windows.. Cannot see where u are at all. ~_~"
So with these facilities, I am sure there would be lesser chance of "XIA CUO ZHAN LA!"