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		<title>Fraunhofer AutoTram: electric tram + bus of tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electric and hybrid vehicles will take over the cities: cars, bicycles, buses and streetcars. New concepts are needed for individual and local public transportation. In the large-scale project “Fraunhofer System Research on Electric-Powered Mobility“, researchers are developing solutions for mobility of the future. The first results have now been presented. Closing time: the passengers are [...]]]></description>
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<div id="_mcePaste" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.railway20.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fraunhofer_autotram.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-260" title="fraunhofer_autotram" src="http://www.railway20.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fraunhofer_autotram-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a>Electric and hybrid vehicles will take over the cities: cars, bicycles, buses and streetcars. New concepts are needed for individual and local public transportation. In the large-scale project “Fraunhofer System Research on Electric-Powered Mobility“, researchers are developing solutions for mobility of the future. The first results have now been presented.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste" style="text-align: justify;">Closing time: the passengers are patiently waiting at their bus stop. Over and over, whenever a bus stops and pulls away again, they are subject to the smell of exhaust fumes. This scenario could soon be a image of the past . The city traffic of the future will be different: buses will not be the only vehicles propelled by electricity, hydrogen or a combination of hybrid propulsion methods. One of these vehicles of the future is the AutoTram®. As long as a streetcar and as agile as a bus, it combines the benefits of both vehicles: with no need for rails or overhead contact lines, the “bustrolley” rolls on rubber tires and follows a simple white line on the road surface.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste" style="text-align: justify;">In the large project “Fraunhofer System Research on Electric-Powered Mobility,” it serves as a research platform. The vehicle is part of the overall Fraunhofer System Research effort, a research cooperative involving 33 Fraunhofer institutes. “We want to offer workable solutions and advance electric-powered mobility in Germany. With our two research platforms – the AutoTram® and a passenger car – we are demonstrating that the new components can interoperate well,” says project coordinator Professor Holger Hanselka. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding this project with a total of EUR 44 million from the Economic Stimulus Plans I and II for a period of two years. The project is broken down into four areas of focus: Vehicle concepts; energy generation, distribution and conversion; energy storage technology; and technical system integration and social issues. After a year spent in extensive research, the first results are now available.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste" style="text-align: justify;">[<strong><a href="http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2010/07/aboard-the-autotram.jsp" target="_blank">More in the press release</a></strong>]</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste" style="text-align: justify;">Hereafter, you can have a look to the agility and driving precision of the <strong>AutoTram</strong>.</div>
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		<title>Are trolleybuses more sustainable than LRV?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the neverending list of blogs I follow, Low Tech Magazine is one of the most interesting and challenging, keeping in mind my predilection for railways. Some of the theses exposed in its posts goes sometimes towards the necessity of shifting to railway and high speed in particular. Therefore I consider this blog as a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-37" title="trolleybus_minsk" src="http://www.railway20.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/trolleybus_minsk-300x225.jpg" alt="trolleybus_minsk" width="300" height="225" />Among the neverending list of blogs I follow, <a href="http://www.lowtechmagazine.com" target="_blank"><strong>Low Tech Magazine</strong></a> is one of the most interesting and challenging, keeping in mind my predilection for railways.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Some of the theses exposed in its posts goes sometimes towards the necessity of shifting to railway and high speed in particular. Therefore I consider this blog as a second, different point of view on rail questions (and not only) and I appreciate that because it let me think. Its last post considers <a href="http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/07/trolleytrucks-trolleybuses-cargotrams.html#more" target="_blank"><strong>trolleybuses</strong> (but there&#8217;s also a reference to <strong>trolleytrucks</strong>)</a> as a low cost alternative to <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail" target="_blank">LRV</a> </strong>(Light Rail Vehicles) in the cities due to the lower costs derived from converting a fleet of motor buses into electrical ones with the only infrastructure investment of a catenary. Moreover some benefits come from the lower maintenance costs and energy savings. This system inherits the benefits of a not track guided transport together with the flexibility of an energy source such as electricity that can be stored, regenerated and applied to electric motors. Nevertheless rubber tyres make the system less noisy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As a matter of fact if we need more capacity the choice should advantage LRV, the article anyhow represents a way to discuss about a valid alternative to urban  transit combustion engines solutions.</p>
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