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The Superbus was introduced as one of the option for the Zuiderzeelijn, a fast connection between Amsterdam and Groningen and resulted to be the best option; the others being three different types of high speed train and the magnetic levitation train. In order evaluate the feasibility of its implementation, the Dutch Ministry of Transport and Water Management has decided to fund the realization of a demonstrator. The Superbus is sustainable, fast, lightweight, and appealing and transports passengers and goods from point to point and drives at high speed (250 km/h) on its dedicated and relatively cheap infrastructure. The Superbus is 15 meter long, 2.5 m wide, 1.6m high and weighs less than 9 ton when fully loaded. The vehicle has to be able to brake or avoid an obstacle (detected by the navigation and control system) within a distance of 240m. Alongside that, static and dynamic loading conditions have rendered the structural design targets very demanding.

The Superbus is a new vehicle for collective transport that travels safely and comfortably at high speeds and with good handling. The vehicle is 15m long, 1.65 m high, weighs 9 ton and carries 23 passengers plus the driver. The suspension system has been specifically designed with the aim to provide a good compromise between comfort and handling for the specific operational characteristic of the Superbus. The vehicle travels at high seed (250 kph cruising speed) on dedicated infrastructures and at conventional speeds on existing roads. Therefore the range of operational driving conditions has enforce a new design which uses a double wishbone design, adaptive dampers and an hydraulic lifting systems which varies the height of the vehicle from 70mm to 400mm from the ground. Thought the design phase a number of vehicle dynamics analyses have been performed, which showed that the Superbus is a safe vehicle to drive at high speeds and that is very comfortable.