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March 5 2021

Autonomous Pods: Single mini buses reinvent public transport

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
in concepts, Transportation
Rolla individual public transport
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The sense of paranoia that takes us when we use crowded vehicles is quite recent. Nonetheless, the thought of using public transport will still arouse moderate fear for quite some time. What's now?

Imagining "public transport" without the word "public" can be difficult. How do you create a tailor-made mass public transport system that no longer involves people in the immediate vicinity? And also, how do you manage this system and make sure it is good for the public and safe for the cities?

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Difficult questions, advanced answers

He tried NewDealDesign. The San Francisco-based company has already worked on a whole host of smart mobility projects, including the recent 'Serve', an autonomous delivery robot. Today he tries again with Rolla, a concept that aims to reinvent urban public transport.

Rolla, individual public transport

"Single-dose" public transport

Rolla takes mass public transport and nuclearizes it. It isolates him. If you prefer, customize it. Think about how lifts work, or cable cars, and then remove the cables. Rolla is designed just like a moving booth. Pardon: an entire network of cabins on a human scale, from which you enter and exit as with an elevator.

Rolla can work on fixed routes such as a public transport bus. You can call it and go into it. However, it can also travel on customized routes for short journeys (you book it from an app).

Ground lift

Rolla, individual and versatile public transport
Rolla, public transport

Rolla's message is clear and simple. A sum of basically "familiar" experiences that allow you to trust a "frontier technology". It looks like a simple bus, or a trolley car open on both sides, like those in San Francisco. You enter, hold on to the handrail, go down. The app is like the ones you use to book taxis and services like Uber. The small size of this public transport makes it friendly, unpretentious and (inevitable, the Covid theme always comes back) easy to disinfect between journeys, perhaps with a UV-C light.

The interiors also follow the same criterion: lights and colors that characterize the different pods: yellow for public transport, purple for private transport, blue for fixed private routes (for example in a hospital park, or a university campus). The displays show timetables and routes clearly and legibly.

In summary: Rolla is a concept with clear ideas about the public transport of the future. Very, very clear. A network of single multifunctional pods, easily deployable on the streets of a city without additional infrastructure such as stations or tracks. They are electric, and can take advantage of solar panels on their surface to increase (not by much, of course) their autonomy in a sustainable way.

Small. Versatile. Scalable. Sustainable. Will tomorrow's public transport really be like this?

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Gianluca Riccio, copywriter and journalist - Born in 1975, he is the creative director of an advertising agency, he is affiliated with the Italian Institute for the Future, World Future Society and H +, Network of Italian Transhumanists.

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