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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).
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 conventional trams and cope with gradients up to 13% due to the ...
A rubber-tyred metro or rubber-tired metro is a form of rapid transit system that uses a mix of road and rail technology. The vehicles have wheels with rubber tires that run on a roll way inside guide bars for traction.
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.
Guided buses are to be distinguished from rubber-tyred systems that cannot run other than along a dedicated trackway, or under fixed overhead power lines. Tram-like guided busway (rubber-tyred tram) systems include: CRRC Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit – 2017: Yibin, Sichuan, China; Zhuzhou, Hunan, China; Yongxiu, Jiangxi, China
Rubber-tyred tram; G. Bombardier Guided Light Transit; T. Translohr This page was last edited on 13 February 2022, at 19:19 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Rubber-tyred tram: 750 V Translohr Croatia: Trams in Osijek: 12 km 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) 600 V Trams in Zagreb: 54.2 km 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) 600 V 1891-1911 at 760 mm (2 ft 5 + 15 ⁄ 16 in), converted to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) in 1910 Czech Republic: Trams in Brno: 70.4 km 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 600 V ...
At the end of the Second World War, the tram suffered many setbacks. As cars began to become more popular, the government did not focus any effort on public transportation systems, but instead on the expansion of roads and highways. The tramlines were gradually replaced by buses. The last tram in Clermont-Ferrand ran on 17 March 1956. [8]