Going to school and returning home can be a nightmare for many students. Not because they are afraid of exams or teachers, but because of the road traffic they encounter every day as they commute to school.

Students in urban centres, especially cities, tend to take the school bus to commute. But the journey can be exhausting, both physically and mentally. They spend hours travelling. It actually wastes a lot of time and affects their productivity.

“My teammates and I were discussing ways to find a solution for this, and thus we came up with our innovation – the ‘Future Transportation System’,” says Shatadha Sharma from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s R.K.Sarda Vidya Mandir, Raipur.

Their prototype – a bus that physically rises above traffic and travels above passenger cars – is designed to speed up mass transportation. It is an ‘elevator bus’ on which 80-100 people can travel at a time.

The prototype is expected to elevate the bogie/compartment high enough so that the bus can take over the traffic from the above. The system can be activated automatically or with the push of a button.

Once the bus crosses such traffic, it would come back to a normal position and move like any other bus.

“The biggest challenge for us was to convert the idea into a model prototype. With the help of our mentors, we were able to do it in two months,” Shatadha adds.

Traffic in India is a bane that takes a heavy toll on us all. Let’s hope such innovations help us all glide over the major issue.