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Rubber-tyred tram in Clermont-Ferrand, France. A rubber-tyred tram (also known as tramway on tyres, French: tramway sur pneumatiques) is a development of the guided bus in which a vehicle is guided by a fixed rail in the road surface and draws current from overhead electric wires (either via pantograph or trolley poles).
Traditional, flanged steel wheels running on rail tracks provide guidance through switches and act as backup if tyres fail. Most rubber-tyred trains are purpose-built and designed for the system on which they operate. Guided buses are sometimes referred to as 'trams on tyres', and compared to rubber-tyred metros. [1]
Translohr vehicles are now providing tram-like service in Clermont-Ferrand. Trams in Padua Translohr.. Translohr is a rubber-tyred tramway system, originally developed by Lohr Industrie of France and now run by a consortium of Alstom Transport and Fonds stratégique d'investissement (FSI) as newTL, [1] which took over from Lohr in 2012.
Rubber tyres used for the Translohr rubber-tyred trams. Rubber-tyred trams are trams that are guided by fixed rail, but also make use of rubber tyres. A rubber-tyred tram is a guided bus which is guided by a fixed rail on the ground and uses overhead cables like a conventional tram. This can allow the vehicles to match the capacity of ...
Unlike railbuses, trolleybuses or rubber-tyred trams, for part of their routes guided buses are able to share road space with general traffic along conventional roads, or with conventional buses on standard bus lanes. Guidance systems can be physical, such as kerbs or guide bars, or remote, such as optical or radio guidance.
The system length of a tram/streetcar or light rail network is the sum of the lengths of all routes in the rail network in kilometers (or miles). Each section of track is counted only once, regardless of how many lines pass over it, and regardless of whether it is single-track or multi-track , single carriageway or dual carriageway .
Central guideway with rubber tyres System map The Caen guided light transit or Caen TVR , locally known as "the Tram", was an electrically powered guided bus system in Caen , France , which used Bombardier Guided Light Transit ( TVR in French) technology.
This is a list of driverless train systems, ... Bishan rubber-tyred tram: 16 April 2021: BYD SkyShuttle [broken anchor] Fuzhou Metro: Line 4: 27 August 2023: Jinan Metro: