New Routemaster Wikipedia. For the 1. 95. 6 bus that inspired the design of the New Routemaster, see AEC Routemaster. The New Routemaster, originally referred to as the New Bus for London, is a hybrid diesel electricdouble decker bus operated in London. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, it is manufactured by Wrightbus, and is notable for featuring a hop on hop off rear open platform similar to the design of the AEC Routemaster, but updated to meet requirements for modern buses to be fully accessible. The first bus entered service on 2. February 2. 01. 2. The original AEC Routemaster was a standard London bus type, with a rear open platform and crewed by both a driver and conductor. Pathfinder Harrow Deck Pdf' title='Pathfinder Harrow Deck Pdf' />The New Routemaster, originally referred to as the New Bus for London, is a hybrid dieselelectric doubledecker bus operated in London. Designed by Heatherwick. SecurityStudy. Clare Hollingworth. La storia di Clare Hollingworth, grande giornalistaChi era Clare Hollingworth, a lei Google dedica il doodle di oggi. After half a century it was withdrawn from service except for two heritage routes at the end of 2. Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, in favour of a fully accessible one person operated modern fleet including articulated or bendy buses, none of which featured a rear open platform. The withdrawal of the Routemaster became an issue of the 2. London mayoral election, and Boris Johnson was subsequently elected mayor, with one of his campaign pledges being to introduce a new Routemaster. As a result, the bus is also popularly known as the Boris Bus or Borismaster a portmanteau of Boris Johnson and that of the AEC Routemaster that they were designed to replace. Following an open design competition in 2. Wrightbus was awarded the contract to build the bus at the end of 2. May 2. 01. 0. The design for the new double decker bus is inspired by the original AEC Routemaster, and features three doors and two staircases to allow accessible boarding. Unlike the AEC Routemaster, the new bus has a conventional full front end and a rear platform that can be closed when not needed, rather than the protruding, bonneted half cab design and permanently open platform. The layout of the new bus allows it to be operated by one person at off peak times. The cost of each bus is 3. PZOP/PZOPSQ0004E.jpg' alt='Pathfinder Harrow Deck Pdf' title='Pathfinder Harrow Deck Pdf' />The New Routemasters were popular with many bus operators and are now a common sight in central London. Despite this, they have come under sustained criticism for design faults such as overheating for passengers in summer and emitting more pollution than their predecessors due to unreliable hybrid batteries. In an attempt to allay these criticisms, Wrightbus introduced the Wright SRM in 2. New Routemaster style body on Volvos B5. LHC chassis. The last of the 1,0. New Routemaster buses is scheduled to enter service in 2. Configurationedit. Passengers alighting from the rear platform. The final design has doors at the front, centre and rear. The front and rear doors lead to staircases to the upper deck. The rear entrance has a platform and pole similar to the original Routemaster, which is kept open for hop on, hop off operation when a conductor is on board. Readers for the contactless Oyster card used for payment for transport in London are provided at each of the three boarding points other types of ticket must be presented to the driver, as the conductor does not take fares or check tickets. There is a new pattern of moquette for the seating, manufactured by Camira Fabrics. The internal lighting is provided by LED clusters, and there is a climate controlled ventilation system. There is a system to display text and provide audio announcements via loudspeakers, and T loop for users of hearing aids 9 the information typically includes the route number, destination, name of the next stop and that the bus is stopping. The bus is a hybrid diesel electric driven by a battery powered electric motor, charged by a diesel fueled generator and recovering energy during braking by regenerative braking. BackgroundeditOriginal Routemaster in LondoneditDesigned for and largely operated in London, over 2,8. AEC Routemasters were built between 1. Routemaster outlasted newer buses intended to replace it, remaining in use until 2. From 3. 1 December 2. UK to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act 1. Older buses were allowed to remain in London until 2. October 2. 00. 9 and in the rest of United Kingdom until 2. October 2. 01. 4citation needed. Through the Tf. L contract renewal process, after 2. Routemaster began to be identified as the most common example of a non wheelchair accessible bus type used on Tf. L routes. The first Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, supported the Routemaster during his first 2. He also promised to convert the whole London bus fleet to low floor with an original targeted timeline of 2. October 2. 00. 9, which then was pushed earlier to 1 January 2. Routemaster from London. Contributory factors to the withdrawal were said to be the risk of litigation over accidents arising from using the rear platform, the cost savings of one person operation and the fact that passengers preferred the comfort levels of modern buses to the vintage Routemaster. Livingstone said that the Routemasters were too dangerous, with approximately twelve people per year dying after falling from them during his mayoralty. The last examples were withdrawn from regular London passenger service in December 2. The Routemaster continued in operation on heritage routes 9 and 1. July 2. 01. 4. The heritage routes, shorter than the full 9 and 1. Tf. L and do not contravene the Tf. L accessible public transport policy requirement, as frequent wheelchair accessible buses also operate on these routes. FRM and XRMeditAn attempt to design a rear engined front entrance version of the Routemaster in 1. FRM1 front entrance Routemaster in 1. The prototype shared approximately 6. Routemaster and was the first integrally constructed rear engined double decker built in Britain. Because of its single door a serious drawback for a bus of this capacity and continued mechanical problems associated with its unique design, the FRM was considered a dead end although it provided proof of concept. Quimica General Pdf Whitten there. In 1. 96. 8, London Transport went back to the drawing board for another replacement of the Routemaster, with an anticipated introduction date of 1. The initial result was a four axle low floor design that would have been suitable for automatic fare collection. By 1. 97. 5, the project was well in hand and had been named XRM Experimental Route Master. Features of the new design included a side mounted engine for maximum flexibility in door and seating layout and hydraulic drive to four small wheeled axles for the lowest possible floor. Experiments in the mid 1. XRM morphed into a more conventional looking vehicle but with the rear door behind the rear axle. Other proposed features were LPG fuel and hydraulic suspension to lower the floor at stops. XRM design work was cancelled in September 1. XRMs but only 1. Routemasters. London Transport had, by then, committed heavily to the Leyland Titan, to which they had significant design input and it was regarded as a more viable option. A decade later, London Transport once again looked for another replacement. In 1. 98. 9, designs were solicited from Dennis Bus, Alexander and Northern Counties. Somewhat surprisingly, the style specified was a rear entrance half cab layout identical to the original Routemaster, but by now, it was considered obsolete elsewhere in Britain. In 1. 99. 9, London Transport received an unsolicited design from its former vehicle engineering manager, Colin Curtis, who had overseen the design of the Routemaster. Dubbed the Q Master, it found little favour within London Transport and by manufacturers that Curtis approached. Transport for London announced that it would look at developing a Routemaster replacement, but the project was confirmed as dead in June 2. Initial Capoco proposaleditOn 3 September 2. Conservative mayoral candidate for London, Boris Johnson, announced that he was contemplating introducing a modern day Routemaster. In December 2. 00.