Futurology is littered with predictions that failed to materialise, not least in the field of transport technology. In Edwardian times, when public transport was largely powered by horse or steam, a ...

1882: The Elektromote, the world’s first trackless trolley bus, is tested outside Berlin. Built by Dr. Werner von Siemens, the Elektromote featured two electric motors that used contact wheels to draw ...

The optically guided bus is the latest in a long line of initiatives to repackage the bus as premium rail-derived technology. The name "trackless trams", the vehicle design, and the modest deployment ...

Trackless trams are vehicles larger than buses that drive on city roads. They provide higher rider capacity than buses, more like light rail, and less air pollution. They are currently being tested in ...

Peter Newman receives funding from the Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre (SBEnrc). I began my life as an activist academic in 1979 when the Western Australian government closed ...

China likes its trains and it has deployed some of the most advanced and the most out-of-the-box train technologies in the world. Now its latest train is so out-of-the-box that it could just as easily ...

“This is incredible! China is testing it’s [sic] new autonomous electric train that does not need traditional tracks. It runs on a virtual track. Can go everywhere.” On May 19, Erik Solheim, a former ...

Last week, Ms Nawaz took the trackless tram for a test ride from Raiwind Road to Muslim Town in Lahore, assessing its performance in live traffic. Alongside Punjab Transport Minister Bilal Akbar, she ...

The Nationalist Party believes that a trackless tram or a similar form of dedicated rapid transit system would be the best way to help tackle the traffic problems in the country in the long term, the ...

Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz is subjected to widespread internet ridicule for unveiling what she proclaimed was South Asia's "first trackless tram," a solar-driven metro system that was brought ...

The Punjab government has announced a plan to introduce tram-like trackless electric buses as part of a new sustainable public transport initiative. Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has directed the ...