In planes, which are now the benchmark comparison for the bullet train, even a two month old baby is charged a full ticket.
However, in trains in India we go by age for a half ticket and the bus conductors down south would use the height as a metric to charge a half or full fare decades ago!!
Presuming we will have a sizeable number of under three foot toddlers who must pay at least half the fare, the idea of using the space under the overhead luggage rack as a retractable pull down cradle cushioned on all sides occurred to me.
The images below would help to imagine how these cradles might recede into the base of the overhead luggage rack and fit within the allotted row to form a cradle-berth for up to 2 year olds!
Of course the images are only ideas and the US Patent 20040123781A1 maybe requisitioned at minor cost for public utility or circumvented by providing vertical tube-in-tube retractors!
The lighting as you would have guessed by now needs to go into the armrest!
So, even if this idea is adopted for 5 locations in a coach, the lights can still go into the armrest as a permanent movement even for the Shatabdhis right away for a host of conveniences!
However, in trains in India we go by age for a half ticket and the bus conductors down south would use the height as a metric to charge a half or full fare decades ago!!
Presuming we will have a sizeable number of under three foot toddlers who must pay at least half the fare, the idea of using the space under the overhead luggage rack as a retractable pull down cradle cushioned on all sides occurred to me.
The images below would help to imagine how these cradles might recede into the base of the overhead luggage rack and fit within the allotted row to form a cradle-berth for up to 2 year olds!
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| Pull down vertical storage as used in kitchens |
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US Patent 20040123781A1 |
Of course the images are only ideas and the US Patent 20040123781A1 maybe requisitioned at minor cost for public utility or circumvented by providing vertical tube-in-tube retractors!
The lighting as you would have guessed by now needs to go into the armrest!
So, even if this idea is adopted for 5 locations in a coach, the lights can still go into the armrest as a permanent movement even for the Shatabdhis right away for a host of conveniences!
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