Minister Of Transportation Budi Karya Challenges Undip To Build An Anti-Covid-19 Electric Bus

The "Bio Smart and Safe Bus" bus equipped with a HEPA Filter is an innovation made by Undip. The bus still uses fuel (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The Minister of Transportation (Menhub) Budi Karya Sumadi gave a challenge to Diponegoro University (Undip) Semarang, to make an electric bus equipped with a HEPA filter to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. equipped with a HEPA Filter, from Yogyakata to Semarang, Monday, December 20. “Undip can collaborate with other universities to make this kind of bus, but with battery/electricity fuel. So that next year it can be used to support the G20 Summit in Bali," said Budi Karya in a statement received in Jakarta, reported by Antara, Monday, December 20. “So far, the only HEPA Filter we know about is on the plane, but now we make it on the bus. One thought that is very anticipatory towards the current pandemic situation," he said. Furthermore, the Minister of Transportation said that electric buses with HEPA filters could be used as mass public transportation in a number of cities, including in Bali, using the Buy The Service (BTS) scheme. that we can compete with other nations," he said.

On the same occasion, the Director General of Higher Education (Dikti) Nizam said that innovations carried out by universities can work well when they get support from sectoral Ministries/Institutions that take advantage of the results of these innovations. universities," said Nizam. Meanwhile, Undip Chancellor Yos Johan Utama explained that for the further development of the Bio Smart and Safe Bus, his party requested support from Ministries/Institutions and other related parties. ” said Yos Johan Utama. Undip is collaborating with PO Sumber Alam to create Bio Smart and Safe Buses, in order to increase public confidence in public bus users in the midst of a pandemic, as well as to help the government prevent and stop the Covid-19 outbreak from transportation clusters. Bio smart buses use the smart air circulating system by providing distance between passenger seats Pang, the use of openable windows, UV C light and HEPA filters. With these filters, dirty and clean air does not mix in the passenger cabin, thus minimizing the transmission of COVID-19 through the air.