Interactive Straddling Bus from Graphic News

Incredible interactive graphic from Graphic News: Follow this link to see an interactive model of China’s new “straddling bus”— designed to combat Beijing’s traffic congestion, the bus glides over lower lanes of traffic, running on electricity and solar energy. The graphic opens in a new window and plays a demonstration of how the bus works. The red dots allow the viewer to click to see more detailed descriptions of the elements of the system, including the statistics on cost, safety features and capacity. The inset shows a locator map of where the trials for the bus will begin in relation to the rest of Beijing, giving it context by showing that the trials will begin in an outlying district and not in the city center. There is also another inset at the bottom left showing an active map of the bus and the direction the bus and cars underneath it are going, and how changes in direction will work with the straddling bus.