Commuter trains are renowned for potentially being cramped and crowded, but they don’t have to be that way. Tiny adjustments to a commuter train’s design – from the width of the doors to the position of the handholds – can have huge impacts on the speed that passengers can get on and off, and can make or break the economics of a train service.
WSJ sits down with train manufacturer Alstom to discover what a perfected commuter train could look like.
Chapters:
0:00 Train carriages are a blank slate
0:38 What influences a train design
2:00 Train doors
2:49 Load monitoring
4:23 Train seats
5:15 Accessibility
5:55 Why there aren’t more futuristic designs
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