{"id":516818,"date":"2018-09-04T10:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=244b8c9c769682d0b957e17630cafac9"},"modified":"2018-09-04T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:50:30","slug":"research-helps-make-buses-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=516818","title":{"rendered":"Research helps make buses smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rather unusual trolleybus has been navigating the streets of Zurich in recent months. With its large windscreen and covered wheels, it could easily be mistaken for a tram \u2013 but it&#8217;s not just the design that makes this bus so unique. For a start, it features a hybrid electric drive system that allows it to draw power from an on-board traction battery as well as overhead wires. But this bus is also &#8220;smart&#8221;, boasting specially designed software that automatically gathers information on the route. That means it always knows what to expect \u2013 whether that&#8217;s a downhill stretch or a dead wire up ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather unusual trolleybus has been navigating the streets of Zurich in recent months. With its large windscreen and covered wheels, it could easily be mistaken for a tram &ndash; but it&#8217;s not just the design that makes this bus so unique. For a start, it features a hybrid electric drive system that allows it to draw power from an on-board traction battery as well as overhead wires. But this bus is also &#8220;smart&#8221;, boasting specially designed software that automatically gathers information on the route. That means it always knows what to expect &ndash; whether that&#8217;s a downhill stretch or a dead wire up ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516819,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516818\/revisions\/516819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}