Japanese Dual Mode Vehicle(DMV) デュアルモードビークル JR北海道

[1201kasahara]

dmv

[anthrocite]

The conversion mechanism looks very smooth, if a bit noisy. Scale it up to a larger articulated vehicle, add diesel / electric mode, and this would allow Boston to reactivate the (E) Arborway line, (A) Watertown line - even extend it to provide a one-seat loop from Harvard to Park St. And replace the Roxbury Silver Line BRT with a bus / subway trolley. The MBTA has recently been paying about $3M for Italian Breda low-floor trolleys that derail, certainly the Japs could engineer this for less.

[ccolimon]

@anthrocite  The Breda cars, like all things Italian, are junk.

[Clavichordist]

@anthrocite

Very true, however knowing the T, they'd come up with some kind of extra proprietary vehicle from some unknown manufacturer that requires some weird part that's hard to get. I say that as I think about the Type 8s that keep derailing in the tunnels!

Unfortunately, the NIMBYs in Jamaica Plain and on the Watertown line in Brighton would find some kind of excuse not to let these things run. Remember it's the NIMBYs that ruined the rebuild of the old Arborway line to Forest Hills.

[SamuraiTogo]

Great! Just Great!

★This is the world first railway and road Dual Mode Vehicle.

[platformone]

@SamuraiTogo Um no not exactly. Their are road-rail maintentance vehicles with various names

[argenvia2]

Just wonderful!

5 stars

greeting from Argentina

Gustavo

[hkrivell]

Aww. I wanted it to turn into a robot.

[osakakawachi]

外人さんの書き込み多いなぁ・・・

やっぱ外国の人にとっても衝撃的なんだろうなあ・・・

[stewartyuen]

cool it can be the bus of train replacements

[5383totodata]

効率悪そう〜

[drkuroneko]

Trains are much more environmentally friendly mode of travel compared to buses/coaches, because it takes much less energy to travel on trails. This is basically a bus service, but whenever it can it travels as a train, which reduces CO2 emission.

[PrimaryConsult]

It appears though that this vehicle is replacing an electrified line. It would have probably been better if it could run on electric while on the rails. Boston has buses that run on diesel in the streets but switch to overhead wire to run in a tunnel. Combining this with that would be pretty good.

[audigex]

@drkuroneko But surely the extra weight of the mechanism's to change mode will reduce efficiency, making it barely worthwhile?

[kanaogu]

普通に道路走ったんじゃ駄目なの？面白いからいいけど。

[px712uf]

this concept was already being used in the 1950s: 15 "Schi-Stra-Bus" were running from 1953 to 1967 in different places throughout Germany. One of these is on display in the railway museum of Bochum-Dahlhausen

[HSMiyamoto]

The idea is to lower the cost of passenger rail service on lightly-traveled branchlines. That is one reason the bus is so narrow, and it does not seem capable of high speed or powerful enough to pull an articulated section.

[ShutterBug717]

I don't understand the concept of this. Couldn't the people just tack the regualr trains? Is this supposed to be environmentally safe or something?

[demo46]

pretty good concept, nice job!!

[heatherandpaul2]

Ok, I heard the begining. I hear the deisel. I figuer its too complicated to tap into the deisel to control the other stuff. this looks like its been retrofitted.

[heatherandpaul2]

why does it sound like a lawn mower? Does it usen a separate small engine to raise and lower the guide wheels and train wheels. Is the vehicle electric??

[ajlordnikon]

Considering the time it takes to drop the hi-rail wheels on to the tracks, and all the geopolitics of having to talk to dispatch to get clearance to enter the RoW, I don't see it as being very efficient. I don't see it even passing a kaizan audit.

[Surrey12]

everything made in china and japan are crap, i hope that car isn't painted with lead.

[kgt2468]

its made in china because japanese company move to other country like china because china is very cheap

[kgt2468]

made IN china but the creator is japanese

[SmileyOreo]

your ipod is made in china, too

[thiago497150]

a kind of hybrid train/bus was tested 10 year ago in brasil. But haven´t sucess

[Myiophonus]

鐵路＆道路兩用bus＾＾超實用..這樣..以後要考火車司機

需再加考大bus駕駛執照了．．

[ktome889]

カッコいいとかじゃなくて役に立つかどうかが課題。

[flygiordano]

You can go, as Chiavarino told to train after that took the young turkeys away from the tracks

[tpzoso]

lol. why do they need this. its a 5 minute delay to all the passengers when they change to rail.

[emzo51]

This vehicle sucks :)

[DominoKing123]

UM UM UM UM U MU M U M UM U MU

[Bunnytheelder1987]

ok... and the point on that is???

[assholedonuts2003]

Don't you find it amazing? Just like the Aquada (amphibious vehicle) of your country??? C'mon, get surprised man! lol

[Bunnytheelder1987]

It's cool, but why?

[assholedonuts2003]

You say Why? Well... don't think any further man!

When you think it's cool, yes it's cool. That's it. lol

[Napostriouf]

The prototype seem having some problem about the balance. Quitly dangerous as we see that was having about no winds and the minibus was balancing side to side.

However, i hope that theese prototype goes more far and fin a way to adapt this kind of transport to any climate. It could be a good way of transport if security part were more worked.

[zxc5200]

people will be surprised and call the police

[atomicpuppet]

lol too much time and money on there hands.

[pvpadilla]

cool!

[PangLiang]

... they should start work on denliner... as much as deno is annoying denliner is useful.

[murfleblurg]

huh. Well, that only took about half an hour longer than it would have to just get off the bus and get onto a train or better yet ... just drive to where it was going, while at the same time weighing and costing more and involving itself in track scheduling. Ingenious. Now let's see a taxicab that can fly after it takes you to the airport.

[PunkHorror]

So freaking cool.

[TedGreene]

omg

you are you people?!?

[BongFuFighter]

Who are you people?