Love them or hate them, bendy buses are impressive. You see one coming around a corner looking like an ordinary bus, then comes the articulated bit and then more bus. Now the unveiling in Dresden, ...

As part of its research into the public transport of tomorrow, researchers at Fraunhofer have developed the AutoTram – a vehicle as long as a streetcar and as agile as a bus. Combining the best of ...

Electric and hybrid vehicles will take over the cities: cars, bicycles, buses and streetcars. New concepts are needed for individual and local public transportation. In the large-scale project, ...

German researchers are testing a unique form of public transportation that borrows the best from busses, electric cars, trains and trams without contributing emissions. The vehicle, named AutoTram, is ...

The world’s longest bust will soon debut on the streets of the city of Dresden, Germany. The bus which said to sit 256 passengers has been described as a train on wheels. Designed by Fraunhofer IVI ...

Getting around Dresden just got more interesting. The eastern German city is now home to the world's longest bus: A 101-foot behemoth with room for 256 passengers. Developed by the Fraunhofer ...

Built by the Fraunhofer Institute for Traffic and Infrastructure Systems, AutoTram Extra Grand is considered the longest bus in the world. A futuristic public transport system, it is nearly 31 meters ...

It's a light-train on wheels. Does that make it a bus? a train? It's unclear. But the developers of the AutoTram at the Fraunhofer Institute seem to have hit upon an interesting way of powering public ...

At nearly 100 feet long and capable of carrying 256 passengers, the Dresden Autotram Extra Grand bus is a behemoth of mass transportation. Consisting of of three accordion-linked cabins, the bus is ...

The city of Dresden, Germany will soon be getting a monstrous addition to its public transportation system that can only be described as a train on wheels. Designed by Fraunhofer IVI and the Technical ...

Public transit is a great way to reduce traffic and gridlock in a crowded city. But do those benefits still apply when the streets are filled with 100 foot buses like the Fraunhofer Institute’s ...

This release is available in German. Closing time: the passengers are patiently waiting at their bus stop. Over and over, whenever a bus stops and pulls away again, they are subject to the smell of ...