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

Trial runs with passengers in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. (Jan 21, 2007)
静岡県富士市の岳南鉄道線でのデモンストレーション走行（2007年1月21日）

In the year 2000, Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) began developing a prototype DMV (Dual Mode Vehicle) 'minibus' that will carry 25 passengers and can operate as a train, running on tracks with steel and rubber wheels, as well as a bus, driving on roads with conventional tires. Now nearing completion this remarkable hybrid will be able to take advantage of existing rail track through more developed areas and then shift to roadways for operation in less-densely populated areas. Overcoming the main obstacle to this kind of service it can change from one type of wheels to the other in 10 to 15 seconds! (JR NEWS Aug 9, 2006)

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[1201kasahara]

dmv

[platformone]

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

[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.

[ccolimon]

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

[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.

[SamuraiTogo]

Great! Just Great!

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

[audigex]

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

[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・・・