Patent ID: 6964219

Claim:
A public transportation vehicle for transporting passengers comprising: an interior of a public transportation vehicle for accommodating passengers to be transported; and blast-resistant protection means arranged in the interior of the vehicle for confining an explosive blast and protecting at least some of the passengers, said blast-resistant protection means comprising: an array of partition means arranged in the interior of the vehicle to subdivide the interior into a plurality of interconnected subspaces for substantially confining an explosive blast to at least one subspace for protecting the passengers situated in the remaining subspaces, the array of partition means comprising at least six spaced-apart blast-resistant panels, fixedly attached to and extending inwardly from inner surfaces of the vehicle body and positioned within the interior of the vehicle for separating groupings of passengers from each other, each panel comprises a transparent portion, wherein at least the transparent portion is provided with a plurality of apertures to attenuate blast pressure in the subspace wherein the blast occurs while air pressure rise in the remaining subspaces is within a limit avoiding injury of persons located therein and provide protection against flying objects in the subspaces not directly open to the source of the explosive blast.