EFFICIENT MASS TRANSPORTATION

REPORT-6 ( DETAILS ABOUT CONCEPT SELECTION)

SELECTION OF THE TOPIC:

Primarily the idea of choosing the topic ‘Alternate Fuels’ was suggested by [NS] and agreed by all the other members. As the other group had chosen this topic and submitted paper work regarding the project we droppped it.

An idea about doing a project on ‘Space Research’ and 'mass transportation' was proposed by [SMM] and [RR] respectively. After realising that both the topics didn't work well with the team, thought collectively about efficient mass transportation. Team members couldnt connect themselves with space travel but as many of the members use bus for travelling they encountered with problems easily and came up with solution.

A good number of ideas were pooled in and we finally decided on efficient mass transportation as our topic.

TYPES OF TRANSPORT:

The idea of using bus as our mass transport was proposed by [AK]. As bus is already existing solution, it won’t be of any help and therefore the idea was opposed by the [SK] and [NS]. So the improvisations were made in bus like implementing movable seats for driver by [PB], air-conditioners by [SMM], putting engine at the back by [NS] and ramp for wheel chairs by [SK].

[NS] surfed the net about a high class school bus with all the facilities which ultimately inspired our model. Apart from this, ideas used in train was also incorporated in our mass transport like having two compartments, separators, emergency breaks and separate doors for each compartment and the idea of adopting ideas from train was given by [SMM].

With The combination of ideas from bus and train we named our mass transport as ‘BRAIN’.

KIND OF FUEL USED:

The idea of using electromagnetism to run the vehicle was given by [PB] ( referring to an article in a kannada magazine).

The idea is that conversion of mechanical energy to electrical energy. The idea was when the passengers walk on the floor of the bus with a special kind of instrument on them it converts energy and stores in the form of electrical energy. This was the source of energy for the vehicle.

But this idea was opposed by [AK] and [SMM] as it is practically inconvenient for passengers to wear the instrument everytime they travel and hence this idea was not implemented. Existing fuels like petrol, diesel, natural gas ideas suggested by [AK], [SK] and [RR] respectively but the idea was opposed by [NS] because the cost would rise up drastically keeping in mind about our needs in our mass transport.

Later we came up with an idea of using hydrogen as fuel after consulting our chemistry professor Dr.D.N.RAO and IISC prof which was convincing for all the team members as it had more positive points over other fuels therefore was used as fuel in our mass transport.

Team members

[NS]- N.Shashwathi

[AK]- Archana kulkarni

[SMM]-Sheetal monica murthy

[SV]- Sandhya.V

[RR]- Reshma.R

[Sk]- Sangeetha.K.J

[PB]- Padmashree Bhat

N.Shashwathi

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