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Seminar Report
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SKYBUS TECNOLOGY
By
Submitted for partial fulfillment of the requirements for award the degree of
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
(Mechanical Engineering)
Submitted to-
Mechanical Department
Introduction...................................................................................................................................1
What is Sky Bus?...................................................................................................................1
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Challenges of transportation..................................................................................................1
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Sky Way:................................................................................................................................7
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Sky Bogie:.............................................................................................................................8
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Sky Coaches:.........................................................................................................................8
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Sky Station:............................................................................................................................9
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Traverser:...............................................................................................................................9
For Designing:.............................................................................................................................10
Safety Measures...........................................................................................................................15
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In Future..................................................................................................................................16
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................17
Reference.............................................................................................................................................18
Abstract
Sky bus is a modern suspended railway invented by Indian technologist, Er. B Raja
Ram. It is an eco friendly, noise free and economical operation, which makes it interesting
not only in cities in India, but also in different cities in Europe and America. Sky Bus falls
under tramway category, according to the Constitution of India. Since it operates along and
parallel to existing roadways and within municipal limits, it is excluded from the Indian
Railway Act. Sky bus is economical than metro rails and other means when considered within
the city limits, in the view of transportation and safety.
Introduction
What is Sky Bus?
Sky bus is a suspended railway system, can never capsize nor collide due to its design
and construction technique. This is noise free, pollution free and economical with no points
and crossings. In short, sky bus is A unique mass transit system which than can be put up
within any two years in any crowded and congested city for safe transportation without loss
of time.
Challenges of transportation
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Though, some of the challenges are met by other means of transportation, Sky Bus is efficient
in meeting all the above specified requirements and challenges and serves the public.
Sky bus comes to state with no financial risk to Government, being financially viable.
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bus.
Sky bus may be constructed within 24 months and people will be travelling in sky
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It is affordable for a common man with least rate possible, according to the city
constructed, including air conditioned travel, pollution free and high quality of life protection
for people.
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life.
The construction and execution of sky bus occurs with least disturbance to daily city
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Adds additional urban space every at 9000 m2/per km between stations, a special
feature distinguishing sky bus.
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Transportation of goods can be handled by the Sky Bus, which is unique advantage of
Sky Bus.
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Employment is also provided in the construction purpose of Sky Bus @ 250 persons
for every 10 km.
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The advantage of Sky Bus is that polycarbonate sheets are fixed around it to take care
of any vandal activity.
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The Sky Bus costs about 2500 crores for a length of 50km, but current elevated metro
option using conventional railway system costs about 5000 crores, which is nearly 2 times the
cost of construction of Sky Bus.
His inventions cover Railway Technologies, Anti collision devices, Sky Bus.
He is Mr. B. Raja Ram, the inventor of Sky Bus Technology.
He holds degrees namely Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Technology, Fellow of National
Academy of Engineering, Fellow of Institution of Engineers. He is a member of Indian
Railway Service of Engineers.
He is the recipient of prestigious FICCI national award for OUTSTANDING
CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE BASED INDUSTRIES, as adjudged by Justice
Bhagawati Committee.
He believes it is in the realm of reality to make food, travel, communication and dwelling
virtually free to all humans on the plant through bold application of science and technology to
infrastructure development.
He wants India to lead the world in transportation, with Sky Bus Technology, which makes
railway systems safer and financially affordable by even a common man.
1. Performance
2. Safety
3. Land & Protection to existing buildings
4. Capital and running costs
5. Construction
6. Charges
7. Financial viability
7. Even the depot areas etc., Sky Bus can make use of space above existing Bus
depots without fresh land acquisition.
8. Sky Bus is a railway technology, with maximum feasibility options like Bus
while other metro options cannot help in this.
sky bus moving without any defect and to give the passengers the ultimate comfort along
with other luxurious facilities which they cannot get in the local buses or in trains.
Components are:
1. Sky Way
2. Sky Bogies
3. Sky Coaches
4. Sky Stations
5. Traverser arrangements at terminals
Sky Way:
1. In the middle of the road way, pile foundations support 1 m dia column approx.
8m high, and spaced at 15m all along the road way.
2. The Sky way consists of a concrete box structure carried over a series of piers at a
height of 8m above the existing road level.
3. In short, Sky Way is the way in which the Sky Bus travels along the road, but at
higher level.
4. Sky Way consists of two rails fixed with appropriate fastenings with in concrete
box support and guide the Sky Bogie.
Sky Bogie:
1. Standard two axle bogies used in metros for speeds of 100 kmph are used, which
gain speed up to a maximum of 160 kmph of standard gauge.
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Sky Coaches:
1. Double walled light shells with wide large windows are suspended from the sky
bogies.
2. Air conditioned and with automatic doors are provided.
3. Audio visual information is provided to passengers, for easy understanding of sky
stations.
4. Special 4m wide or 2m x 2m wide sliding doors are provided for quick entry and
exit of passengers.
5. Each pair carries 300 persons.
6. Service is possible in every 30 seconds or one minute.
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Sky Station:
1. Unlike conventional mass transit systems, Sky Bus needs smaller stations.
2. Totally computerized control, access control is also electronic by prepaid cards
being swiped in.
3. Stations act as only access facility, and not as passenger holding area.
Traverser:
1. Traverser is the system which automatically shifts the Sky Bus units for balancing
the loads / changing routes too as well as shift units to depot lines etc
For Designing:
Even in case of designing, the Sky Bus is easier to design in structural point of view.
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5t
6.5 t
c. Passenger load
d. Weight of equipment :
2t
e. Axle load
12 t
24 t
9t
In the Sky Bus technology, the median in the middle of road is used to raise columns to
support 9.4 m wide concrete box 2.4 m high, which houses sky-guides and a powered bogie
and can run on the sky-guides at speed up to 100 kmph .The coaches are suspended from the
bogie frame running overhead and thus are designed for lighter crush loads as compared to
normal railway coaches. Tremendous savings are achieved in systems design.
2. The fixed structure at 8m height above road level is aesthetically pleasing and
there is no concern of claustrophobic feeling for road users.
3. Aesthetic and eco friendly, the Sky Bus can never derail, capsize nor collide, by
design as well as by construction, hence is safer than existing rail based system.
4. The system is noise free, pollution free with 18000pphpd to scalable to 72000
pphpd as required.
5. It is a unique mass transit system which can be put up within two years in any
crowded and congested city.
6. In addition to moving people, Sky Bus can carry 20 ft containers, boosting its
capacity utilization to double that of other existing systems.
Figure 8
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Figure 10 7B
Figure 11 7C
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Figure 13 8A
Figure 14 8B
Figure 15 8C
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Safety Measures
Compared to conventional railway systems, the centre of gravity of the mass being
carried on the wheels is brought down to be closer to the wheel support. Hence
dynamic safety is many times improved.
In conventional railway wind can topple the trains. In Sky Bus wind cannot topplethere is positive link between the rail guidance system and the Bus Coaches- with
400%.
Figure 17
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In Future
After the successful test run of the sky bus in its test track in Madgaon Goa,
The Indian Railway has recognized its work efficiency and found it as the future of mass
communication in the urban areas. The Sky bus has proved its effectiveness in various sectors
in all the tests it has gone through. Hence the Sky bus has proposed by the Railway
department
in
following
cities of India, Ahmedabad, Pune, Kochi, Kolkata,
Lucknow, Mumbai, Pondicherry, Ranchi, Shimla, Thane, Bhubaneswar, Bangalore, Chennai
Coimbatore Delhi, Goa, Gurgaon and Hyderabad.
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Conclusion
The Sky bus is the technology breakthrough that India has achieved. Sky bus is an
improved railway technology, eliminating the problems of existing metro rail systems, like,
derailments collisions, and capsizing crushing people. Old conventional railway men, who
remained basically operating and maintenance experts, may take a little time to appreciate,
but the fact remains. Sky bus is an improved railway technology eliminating their fears of
derailments and capsizing from which they suffered for decades!
Financially Sky bus Metro makes urban transport a dream come true for
administrators- virtually free gift to people without Government fund in
What needs to be done is to eliminate the doubting Thomas in our minds, and adopt the
Sky bus, if we want to really solve the urban transport crisis. The Sky Bus metro is one single
technology which can change the face of our cities, take out almost 10 million road vehicles
in the cities and make the cities livable, improving quality of life and attract and sustain
economic activity to generate wealth.
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Reference
www.atrilab.com
www . konkanrailway .com
http://skybus.blogspot.com
http://skybus.metro.googlepages.com
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