The principle behind the rubber tired metro history at left.
Rubber tired trains.
English road train land train parking lot train wattman trains deltrain dotto train or choo choo train is a road going articulated vehicle used for the transport of passengers comprising a driving vehicle pulling one or more carriages connected by drawbar couplings in the manner of a road going railway train.
The vehicles have wheels with rubber tires which run on rolling pads inside guide bars for traction as well as traditional railway steel wheels with deep flanges on steel tracks for guidance through conventional switches as well as guidance in case a tyre fails.
A rubber tyred metro or rubber tired metro is a form of rapid transit system that uses a mix of road and rail technology.
Two incompatible systems using physical guide rails exist the guided light transit glt designed by bombardier.
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.
A rubber tyred tram also known as tramway on tyres french.
Michelin built its first rail car in 1929 and by 1932 had built a fleet of nine cars that all featured innovative and distinctive pneumatic tires in september 1931 an agreement signed between the two companies allowed.
The first ever rubber tired parisian métro at the porte des lilas station.
A trackless train or tram u s.
The vehicles have wheels with rubber tires that run on rolling pads inside guide bars for traction as well as traditional railway steel wheels with deep flanges on steel tracks for guidance through conventional switches as well as guidance in case a tyre fails.