4 differences between trains and trams
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Walking down the street, you may encounter railroads on which a familiar vehicle roams the city with its poetic figure. You can also come across railroads on certain stations where the whole crowd is waiting for that one big metal body. Do you think on these railroads the same vehicles commute or is there a difference between them? Actually, there is more than one! The first one is called ‘tram’ and the latter ‘train’. You may have heard several times that one is used for the other, but are they the same thing? Is a tram a train? There is not a single answer to these questions.
Although the way they commute is the same, there are a number of differences between trains and trams. In order to differentiate them, we first have to answer the questions of “what is a train” and “what is a tram.” Some countries make the distinction quite clearly while others do not seem to be bothered that much. However, when you get to know their functions and features, you can easily understand the distinction between them.
After understanding how trains and trams work, you may make a comparison and ask yourself “are trains better than trams” or “are trams cheaper than trains”? You can learn all these differences and much more. If you are wondering about what makes them unique in their own way, we have a video full of interesting information. So what are you waiting for? Hop on!
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Anything on rails is the best type of transportation!
short and right answer
I totally agree with you
Well idk .. The idea of the air-train is kinda cool
@@AMPProfThat's called a plane
No. You have to share it with other people. Yuck.
as for the end of the video, I don't really think hyperloop is gonna be a big thing, it's just too much extra cost and extra danger for too little benefit, however, if companies are willing to build up an entirely new transport system, I think it's much more likely, that they're gonna use some type of maglev train examples of maglev trains include the german transrapid, which is used in china, and the japanese SC maglev, which is not yet in commercial service
Yeah, Hyperloop seems to have too many engineering problems to address, safety, maintenance and cost. Maglev is at least a decades ahead when it comes to R&D and is already in service in Germany (limited) and in China (Airport Express). Soon China will fully use Maglev as a new HSR technology and Japan is also building as well with their own. These are most feasible and familiar we have and already proven to work extremely well.
Hyperloop promise is of that even higher speed than the current Maglev, but currently Hyperloop designed to be more like a hyperfast car contained on a vaccum tube than to be an actual high-capacity train. Maybe good option for only needing to get an express from point A to point B extremely far for small amount of people, which seems more of a premium service.
two completely different things, trams move around a town/city, trains travel between towns/cities, then you have commuter trains or metro systems to go from a city centre to a nearby dormitory town and vice versa, yet nothing to do with trams (longer routes, fewer stops, separated tracks)
trams are like busses in a town, but don't get into traffic jams, carry more people and the ride is comfier as they rock much less
it seemed very basic staff for me, but as a european i guess for me it's just everyday life
i personally love trams
they're not even completely different, you have some stuff like the forchbahn in zürich, switzerland, which starts off on the tram netwrok, but reaches quite a bit further and is run as an S-Bahn line (commuter rail)
@@SebastianD334 Those are tram-trains, a hybrid vehicles. That's something different.
They don’t get stuck only if they have their own dedicated lane, but most of the time they run on mixed traffic
@@SebastianD334 That is just overlap at the edges of those roles, which is normal you're gonna have such situations. But by far and large, they're pretty distinct things. It is like a dog and a seal. Both mammals, comparable sizes, reminiscent looks even, both can hunt prey, swim, walk on land and swim in water, and they can do both activities close to each other and even together. Yet, you probably still can easily tell them apart, and that they do all of those things rather differently too.
Way back in the 1920's my father worked on the breaks and electric motors on the trolley cars in Albany, N.Y. He also operated the wrecker whenever a trolley car broke down or jumped the track. He told me about how one night a trolley car had the brakes go out going down hill and the trolley jumped the track and crashed into a funeral home. It was late at night and nobody was in the funeral home, but he had to hook it up and tow it back to the shop. It was dangerous work also. Sometimes he had to get up on top of the trolley car and reattach the pole going from the trolley car to the power line over the street. One mistake and he would have been fried.
Personally, I do not think hyperloop will succeed at all. It's what is known by industry experts as a "gadgetbahn", which is essentially something that really isn't needed. As for HSR, I don't think that will take over either, since it only caters for one type of train: express trains. For local trains, regional trains, etc. HSR won't cut it because of what HSR is: a rail line that doesn't stop everywhere and is very fast. In the UK, HS2 is being built to take express trains off the rail network, allowing us to run more trains that people will use for commuting, since not everyone commutes into London. Places like Leeds and Manchester will have huge capacity upgrades simply because their conventional rail stations won't have to cope with the fast trains which drain capacity like there's no tomorrow. As for commuting, I reckon short commuter rail lines will likely be replaced with a rather recent innovation: the tram-train. The local and regional trains I mentioned earlier will still be run by regular trains, and trams should own the roads in the city centers, since they are so much cleaner than those dirty buses, considering that we are facing an imminent climate crisis.
HSR is good for intercity/ interstate travel, but Hyperloop is good for nothing.
It’s vaporware. It doesn’t exist.
I wouldn't wanna drive in a tunnel that, if someone shot it with a average bullet, will literally explode entirely and kill everyone in it.
I love Trams / Streetcars 🇨🇦
Trams can halfway between a bus and train so they can go on it's on separate track and on roads. Trams are often used instead of a bus line since trams have higher capacity than a bus and lower capacity than a train. Trams stops as frequently as a bus line does. So cities converts a bus line when a bus line have capacity problem into a tramway line. Tramways are often cheaper than building tube lines and tunneling under the city.
There are metros, subways that act like trains, such as the Metro between Rotterdam and Den Haag. The Kustram at the Belgium coast is an interurban tram line that is over 56km long. It connects several cities on the coast of Belgium. In Karlsruhe, Lyon and Kassel in Germany. You have tram trains. These are trams that run at 100km/t or more. These are trams that can use both voltages. In other cities such as Essen, Dortmund, Den Haag, Nice etc. Trams run like subways too. But for the most part, you address the differences correctly.
New high speed rail is the future of long distance travel in countries, but hyper loop is more expensive and less economical
I love train! Please make more videos about trains🙏
part missed is that both systems need good management such as
the right frequency for the demand and having the right mind-set to make the demand for the frequency
Trains do stop, even freight trains. It's very dumb to say that trains don't stop between station.
Thank you for the good information. I personally prefer trams more than trains :)
Generally, Trams are more aesthetic. I guess that's why I like trams more.
Nowadays, for environmental reasons, trains are gradually running on electricity rather than diesel fuel, and certain areas of railway lines have overhead lines for them, so that part isn't a difference between train and tram anymore
When you hear the word hyperloop 👁👄👁
From a technical point of view, trains and trams are the same thing, the major difference being that trams are designed to move people inside cities and trains to move people between cities. When it comes to future transport over long distances, I bet it will be mainly high speed rail and maybe some maglev to shorten longer routes, high speed rail being the backbone and maglev a cherry on top. For city transport it would be busses and trams, buses preferably electric. We should also encourage walkability and use of bikes and similar.
Trains were originally designed to move people between cities, now a lot often than before cities have local rail lines that transport people through the city. For example my city has 21 train stations and 4 more under construction, all of them are used
Turk high-tech! The smart nation.
I have a folder about it (folder 6 in the playlist).
1. Trams can drive on train tracks, but trains can't drive on tram tracks. Trains need a bigger turning circle than trams. This depends on where you live.
As always a very excellent and informative video.....love to watch your videos ❤❤
Can we get a deep dive into tram trains, how they are different from trams and trains, what they're for, where they work, etc? Where I live we're surrounded by disused but technically in service rail lines and we have trams, a tram train seems a no brainer but it never comes up
All trams are trains but not all trains are trams.
Wow, I always thought they were the same thing. Good to be informed 🤙🏻
What a marvelous machines! I like trams more than trains!
I'm from Kolkata, India and its the only Asian City to have functional tram network.
I ❤️ Trams.
Not true lol. Utsunomiya, Tokyo, Sapporo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Foshan, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Suzhou, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, etc. all have trams/light rail network that's equally or more extensive than Kolkata.
gnarly slams bro, keep up the good work
in my opinion, the trams should be compatible with trains, and they should have two cabs, have the same track width and basically be street version of trains
Then there will be a tram-train 👍
Again, great video.
I'ma say trams are better, they seem to be the better version of trains, being more environment friendly, take less time to start and stop, and seem to be easier to maintain in a depot with buses(and trams)
I knew they were similar yet differents, but I never bothered to think more about said differences
Future = walking and cycling (within cities). Go Netherlands!
Where I live in Melbourne Australia I have both very close by. I usually travel by the train as it is more frequent and quicker. I live near a junction station so trains are very grequent. The tram is good for short local hauls.
It really depend on city planner to make tram function effective.. Mostly straight line from point a to b and has it own line and stop
i like both trains & trams
I believe landing gears are very important because it sustain all the gravitational forces and all the weight ,
its very difficult to land the aircraft if any one of them fails.
Two of the first horse tramways in Britain were constructed in 1860 by George Francis TRAIN, hence Mr. Train's Tram.
I think I prefer trams over subway because I like travel above ground and be able to see where the tram is going . I do though love trains in long distance traveling.
I mostly travelled in trains its nice...
But like tram's when I saw this...
and I excited when I will travel in terms...
From India...
Rail infrastructure planning is vital to the success of future railtravel but it all depends above of all from political interest to invest on it in order to create a system as good as aviation flying nation by nation with no technology barriers, many of them historical barriers such as track and loading gauge and direction of travel. But there are many others such as electrification and signalling systems. While this issues prevailing, railways will only be successful inside borders ecluding rare exceptions where nations share their systems specially in Europe, the biggest railway user but facing huge difficulties to make it something competitive with aviation sector on medium distances. Thank you fro sharing the video.
My life is tram 🥰
in short, trams are trains on the road and are buses that are on rails
Both forms are transport are very efficient at moving a lot of people without forming congestion and dont pollute cities airspace but one thing I think we can all agree on is that NORTH AMERICAN CITIES NEED FORMS OF TRANSIT THAT ARENT CARS
Hyperloop mentioned again it's a Gadgetbahn, it's just fast cars in tube how ridiculous.
The correct answer to the question one is the superior option is: both, please.
the hyperloop is not worth it. why should the train be in tunnels if there isn't an obstacle, such as a city or a mountain?
I'm a tram and I approve this video! :O
Trains for traveling from one city to another.
Trams for going around the city.
In Sheffield (uk) there are a special type of tram that can drive on the main line aswell
Yep. A tram-train.
Rails is very good
From horse drawn omnibuses to meglev mass driver hyper transit systems that run in vacuum tubes. Will beanstalk hyper trains be in our future to take us commuters to space?
first two differences I noticed are wheel size and weight
Artificial voice software is too annoying. It's obvious that there is no gap for breathing.
00:09 Zagreb old trams at Šubićeva street, city centre :) 13 just started his city journey, he passed only 1 station at this time :D
There are tyes of rails used only by trams not by trains (hole in middel of rail)
2:57 well well well, if it isn't the "honest guide" boys :D
Were I live the tram can function as a city train or a regular train depending on where In the county and on which line.
Are trams free? it seems like access is unrestricted 1:09
Nope, its the nostalgic tram in Istanbul, and you have to pay for it, but not that much. And i think they were in a rush there, so they just hopped on.
talking about europe, the only free trams are in luxembourg, however they are normally very affordable, around a euro, sometimes little less, sometimes little more, depending on routes and standard of living of the place
@@adamwnt Trams don't have special pricing. They are part of the same public transport network (or belong to same carrier) and thus have the same ticket prices.
@@Terepin64 yes of course, and that’s the standard accross all of Europe. Tickets are around a euro depending on the country/city (sometime a little more, sometimes a little less) and you can use it for both, busses and trams within a specific city area, very convenient indeed
Jakarta: MRT, LRT and Electric Train
The Future of transportation is maglev trains and regular highspeed trains. Hyperloop is not that great and has a lot of flaws.
@romulus augustus read something before you talk about it. You mix two things together
@romulus augustus yes i know that, but you combined hyperloop with Musk's loop system. There is a big diference between them.
Hyperloops? Heck not. They suck
i prefer steam trains way more cheaper then normal trains
I ❤️ trams
This vid id probably for people that dont know anything about trains and trams!
Great video ! (see our trams video in Taiwan too)
3:30 R.I.p pigeon
What's the difference?
Me: One word: SPELLING
Oh !!
I didn't know that 😑
😅😅😅
Anything but buses is good
I like trams more
0:00 Polish tram :)
Both of them
Typical zero research, zero thought American journalism? documentary? blather?
....what do _you_ think?
1:27 this is a metro-train
Both
We don't have any of them in my country
I prefer Air taxi
2:41 haha
Im 100% a train Person
trains are cool, but trams suck
trams are just like a more expensive and dangerous alternative to BRT, or alternately like a more land consuming, dangerous, and less capable alternative to monorail or subway, depending on which you want to compare them to, they have no real purpose, they only exist because they once made sense a long long time ago and people feel nostalgic about them
they have the purpose of providing high capacity rail transport for small or mid-sized cities or urban centers of larger cities, where rapid transport construction is not viable. I personally prefer them over brt for this job, since their capacity is superior and trams have a greater life span than buses. And don't forget, they are more flexible than heavier rail construction, it's easier to lay tracks on a street than to dig tunnels or build elevated structures.
Brt is a completely inferior system to trams. Less energy efficient, less punctual, less passenger capacity, more polluting, more costly to operate, need more drivers, need frequent fleet replacement.
Brt is only used to win people's votes without doing anything worthwhile.
trams suck in the city, metro is the way to go
i like hyperloop more
"trams" and "train" are only brands, not transportation types.
Brands? And which companies branded them?
@@Terepin64. I don't know what is the correct word if something is not a cathegory only a case of cathegory. "tram", "streetcar", "strassenbahn", "U-Bahn", some "metro" systems etc mean "urban local train". "Train" (in urban context), "commuter train", "S-Bahn", "RER", "S-Tog", "Beovoz" etc mean "urban fast train".
@@blista2 Some of them are only names, sure, but tram and train are simply technically and practically very different.
They're completely different systems. Apart from running on rails, they don't have much in common.
@@RR-us2kp are you from the USA?
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Trains are better
They're not better. They're simply different for different needs.
are modern day trams the same as light rail?
One hits harder then the other