low-floor
Adjective
Meaning
low-floor
Of buses, trams or trains, built with a floor closer to ground level to ease access for passengers.
Examples
Another factor favoring standard gauge is that accessibility laws are making low-floor trams mandatory, and there is generally insufficient space for wheelchairs to move between the wheels in a narrow-gauge layout.
An articulated tram may be low-floor variety or high (regular) floor variety.
Floor height details The latest generation of LRVs has the advantage of partially or fully low-floor design, with the floor of the vehicles only convert above the top of the rail, a feature not found in either rapid rail transit vehicles or streetcars.
Coaches generally use wheelchair lifts instead of low-floor designs.
Dualis is a strictly modular partial low-floor car, with all doors in the low-floor sections.
However, in 2013, the first domestically manufactured low-floor trolleybuses were introduced in both Argentina and Mexico.