Efficient Mass Transportation

Group Members:

1. Archana Kulkarni-1ms09is016
2. Padmashree Bhat-1ms09is062
3. Reshma R-1ms09is076
4. Sandhya Rao-1ms09is082
5. Sangeetha K J-1ms09is083
6. N Shashwathi -1ms09is057
7. Sheetal Monica-1ms09is087

Traffic congestion is one of the major problems faced by the public today. The following mathematical analysis would show that public transport is a true solution for this problem.

In times of increasing fuel crisis, developed and developing nations have been chalking out various alternatives. Millions of dollars are being diverted towards development of alternate fuels. Unfortunately, public transport has not been recognized as a wonderful “on hand” solution. With a simple example of Bangalore’s metropolitan transportation, it can be proved that public transport system can be extremely useful and fuel efficient.The mileage statistics of B.M.T.C bus is about 283 km for 57 liters, which crudely works out to be 4.96 km/litre. Assuming that a considerable proportion of buses have reached their salvage point, we can round off the mileage of bus to 4 km/litre. When a bus runs in full capacity, the number of passengers may be around 70. This is equivalent to a staggering 35 two wheelers! Let us now assume a journey of 10 kms. Bus would use about 2.5 litres of fuel. Assuming that an eaverage two wheeler gives a mileage of 45 kmpl, 35 two wheelers would use up 7.777 litres of fuel for the same 10 kms of journey, as compared to a minimal 2.5 litres used by public transportation mode. Mathematically, it is 3 times more fuel efficient than private transport!!!Hold on!! The vehicular density is brought down by 34 parts.

It can be said that public transport is a very effective measure of transportation after this analysis. But there are certain problems associated with buses too.

But the buses too cause a lot of pollution.

Many a times they get over crowded and it becomes highly inconvinient for the public to travel.

Lack of punctuality causes a lot of problems to the public.

A sincere attempt has been made by a few MSRIT students to solve these problems. An idea to use electricity instead of fossil fuels in public transport has been given a thought and its materialisation needs time. More improvements will be updated shortly.

Report : 

As said in the earlier report, the team's focus in the last week has been on finding an alternate fuel for the final product. The team has decided on using hydrogen internal combustion engine (HICE) in the final product. 
The HICE, as the name suggests is an engine that uses hydrogen as the fuel. Hydrogen fuel that is used now is produced mostly by fossil fuels. The fossil fuel combustion that mainly results in the exhaustion of gases such as carbon-di-oxide, results in pollution of the environment. 
If hydrogen is directly used in the vehicle instead of fossil fuels, there will arise no quesion of combustion of the fuels which means that the emission of carbon-di-oxide and such related gases are completely eliminated as the net reaction inthe engine will be emission of water. Thus, the vehicle can run as efficiently as it does with any fossil fuel but without causing any environmental pollution. 
The same idea is used in the HICE in which hydrogen is directly used as the fuel instead of deriving it from the fossil fuel combustion. 
The team's next focus is on providing a comfortable and an appealing vehicle to the passengers which can not only let them have a safe journey but also provide them facilities which their otherwise luxurious private vehicles cannot provide. Improvements have been made and more information will be updated shortly.

REPORT-

Proposed ideas:

Our transport can travel in 3 ways: 
1. Air(fantasy thought) 
2. Track 
3. Road 

Difficulties in air: 
1. The vehicle is too heavy to fly. 
2. The fuel used (Hydrogen) is not designed to work in air. 
3. It is uneconomical i.e. unaffordable by all standards of people. 

Difficulties on track: 
1. The installation charges are very high thus making it expensive. 
2. High initial investment. 
3. Low returns. 
4. Maintenance cost is high. 
5. There is a high possibility of the vehicle getting de-railed. 
6. Frequent inspection is required for this purpose. 

Factors considered to do the concept selection method. 
1. Cost efficient. 
2. The medium that can withstand the weight of the vehicle. 
3. The initial investment. 
4. The efficiency of the vehicle. 
5. The maintenance cost. 
6. Economical(affordable). 

Using EVAD, DATUM and criteria ranking methods for concept selection. Finally the group has come up with the idea of using the vehicle on road for Indian population. 

The sketches regarding the designs will be submitted by this weekend. Regular meetings are held to discuss the progress of the project. The work has been distributed equally amongst the members. Any developments will be reported shortly.