Flexity (tram)

Under the name Flexity the company Bombardier Transportation markets its rail vehicles for urban transport. At the moment, be subsumed under this name different road and rail types that are not only externally but also technically very different.

Trams

Flexity Classic

The Flexity Classic is a family of partial low-floor trams, which are mainly used in Germany. The transport company in Dresden, Frankfurt and Dortmund are the biggest customers in Germany.

Flexity Outlook

:% Low-floor vehicle series together - under the name Flexity Outlook 100 are two different

  • First, the City Runner, which is now called Flexity Outlook C and was used for the first time in 2000 in Graz. The vehicle series is widely used in German-speaking in addition to Graz in Augsburg, Innsbruck, Linz and Krefeld, but is also found in Brussels, Eskişehir, Geneva, Łódź, Marseille, Palermo and Valencia / Alicante.
  • The Euro Tram falls into this category and is marketed as Flexity Outlook e. She is known primarily from Strasbourg, but also comes in Milan and Porto are used.

Flexity Berlin

For the Berlin Transport Services (BVG ) was constructed by Bombardier from the Incentro the specially adapted to the needs of the Berlin Flexity Berlin. It is a 100 - % low-floor trams, which is produced in four different configurations ( setup or bi-directional vehicles with 30.8 and 40 m length). The design of vehicles specifically designed for Berlin and to be inspired by the Bauhaus style. After four pre-production in these different versions is currently a first tranche of 99 vehicles in the delivery; additional options can be retrieved later. Also from the Strausberg Railway two vehicles of the Berlin series were ordered, the first of which is in use since February 2013.

Flexity 2

The Flexity 2 is the latest, advanced 100 - % low-floor trams from Bombardier Transportation, which was introduced in 2009. First customer is the tram Blackpool in England. From the third quarter of 2014 and 61 vehicles under the name " Flexity Basel " are delivered to the Basel traffic operations.

Flexity Freedom

For the North American market, Bombardier Transportation offers the vehicle family Flexity Freedom, which was introduced in October 2011 and developed in parallel with the Flexity 2. Also it is a 100 - run % low-floor vehicle. In the design special attention was paid to the performance of Canadian and U.S. standards. This family of vehicles to be produced in North America.

Light rail

Flexity Swift

The Flexity Swift is a family of light rail vehicles, which is offered in both low-floor as well as in high-floor variant. This type of vehicle was first used at the 1995 Cologne transporting enterprises (KVB ) is used, but today it is used for instance in transport companies in Cologne, Bonn, Bursa, Frankfurt, Istanbul, London - Croydon, Minneapolis, Rotterdam and Stockholm. Also in Karlsruhe, light rail will in future drive type Flexity Swift.

Flexity Link

When Flexity Link is a so-called tram-train vehicle, so a tram that can travel both in inner-city tram network and the regional rail network. This allows, provided an appropriate infrastructure optimum accessibility of the region to the inner cities. Currently, 28 railcars of the type Flexity Link in Saarbahn in Greater Saarbrücken in use.

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