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
Pro Perfected
Experts in engineering and design break down a ubiquitous problem, examining how the world is built and what can make it better.
#Train #Subway #WSJ
|
The economics of AI are getting harder t...
#yahoofinance #business #stockmarket US...
== AlphaSpace by Yahoo Finance: A Profes...
For the third month in a row, the jobs r...
== AlphaSpace by Yahoo Finance: A Profes...
Why bitcoin sitting on the 200 weekly mo...
Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Elon M...
Software has dominated venture capital f...
Philip Johnston, Starcloud CEO, joins to...
Supernatural, the VR fitness app for Met...
The May jobs report came in stronger tha...
After Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote, join Th...
While the AI fundraising machine keeps b...
From Stitch to Omni, Google I/O introduces new tools for content creat
Google I/O 2026 just dropped a wave of n...
Hardware Architect Answers Microchip Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer ...
From Stitch to Omni, Google I/O introduces new tools for content creat
Google I/O 2026 just dropped a wave of n...
Hardware Architect Answers Microchip Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer ...