Dubai City Bus


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Creator/Artist: Arjunkumar Bavalia

Category: Mobility Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2014-2016

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Shri. Dhrubajyoti Deb & Prof. Nishant Sharma


Detailed Description

When we say Dubai, few things starts to coming in our mind like a dream city, tall buildings, night life, desert, beaches, super cars, luxury hotels etc. And yes it is true that Dubai is one of the city in the world which has shown enormous amount of change within past 45 years which makes it unique in the world. Dubai is the place where the people from various countries comes as tourists or for employment. To cater their need in transportation Dubai is developing towards integrated transportation system which connects Metro to water transport through surface transport. In the surface transport the feeder buses caters the need for integration and connects entire city along with taxi. This project is a hypothetical academic based project to design a city bus for Dubai. It is not just a city bus but it is a city bus for Dubai. The bus should express Dubainess at the end of the day and which make it different from rest of the city buses running in other cities in the world. It is a 24+D city bus. It starts with the understanding about Dubai and find some design attributes for the design and study about few transportation evolution in the world like in aviation, rail etc. Background study of the users is carried out and on that basis persona decided which makes the research more comprehensive. The project phases and deliverable includes exploration, conceptualization of ideas, final concept rendering, a mock up scale model of exterior and a scale mockup of typical seating pitch represents key design aspects.