They'd likely use a rear-mounted diesel or compressed gas fueled engine mated to an automatic transmission to propel a vehicle of about 40 feet length with seating and standing room for excess of 50 passengers, a fleet of which would operate on a schedule transporting passengers between various stops in order to facilitate travel across a metropolitan area, or over longer distances between cities.
Sorry, OP. Not sure what you mean by the question. Bus systems are already some of the most distributist of mass transit industries given the relatively limited scope of any particular network's operations.
Ideally I suppose the busses themselves would be built by an interest local to their usage, as was the case until pretty recently and still kind of is. Truck frames and drivetrains are produced by a major manufacturer, then the coachwork is done by a different one.
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u/Mmm_Dawg_In_Me Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
They'd likely use a rear-mounted diesel or compressed gas fueled engine mated to an automatic transmission to propel a vehicle of about 40 feet length with seating and standing room for excess of 50 passengers, a fleet of which would operate on a schedule transporting passengers between various stops in order to facilitate travel across a metropolitan area, or over longer distances between cities.
Sorry, OP. Not sure what you mean by the question. Bus systems are already some of the most distributist of mass transit industries given the relatively limited scope of any particular network's operations.
Ideally I suppose the busses themselves would be built by an interest local to their usage, as was the case until pretty recently and still kind of is. Truck frames and drivetrains are produced by a major manufacturer, then the coachwork is done by a different one.