Adelaide O-Bahn (guided busway)
O-Bahn (autobús guiado) de Adelaida
- Date
- 5 de marzo de 1986 · confidence high
- Place
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Credited to
- Government of South Australia and Daimler-Benz
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A 12 km concrete track along which buses, guided by side wheels with no driver steering, run at 100 km/h. Opened in 1986, it is the longest and fastest guided busway in the world.
The technology was tested earlier in Essen (Germany) in 1980; Adelaide is the largest application, and it has grown with extensions since 1986.
What it led to
- a model for guided-bus corridors in low-density cities
- a complement to surface rail in corridors without railways