Tram ride experience is much smoother. Trams can be lower floor making embark/disembark faster. Battery powered busses add a lot of weight and complexity, but trolley busses have a lot of the same limits of trams. Hybrid solutions exist but you can’t say just run a full route on the smaller batteries. Light Rail and Streetcar Service Typical Differences Geometry/curves min radius ~ >85 ft min radius ~ <60 ft Trains / Capacity 1 to 4 cars / 125 to 500 1 to 2 cars /120-240 Station Spacing 1/2 to 1 mile or more 2-3 blocks to 1/2 mile Peak Passengers 1,000-7,500 per hour 1,440-5,760 per hour Seats / Standees 64/61 ~ 125 per car 30/90 ~ 120 per car System map. Constructed near the beginning of the 20th century, until 2014 the Cairo tramway network was still used in modern-day Cairo, especially in modern areas, like Heliopolis and Nasr City. During the 1970s, government policies favoured making space for cars, resulting in the removal of over half of the 120-kilometre (75 mi) network. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Siemens S70; its successor, the S700; and European variant, the Avanto; are a series of low-floor light-rail vehicles (LRV) and streetcars manufactured by Siemens Mobility, a division of German conglomerate Siemens AG. The S70 and S700 are built for the United States market where the vehicles But, there’s a simple test to distinguish streetcars from cable cars: If it runs on steel rails with a trolley pole connected to an overhead wire above, it’s a streetcar. If it runs on steel rails with an open slot between them, and no overhead wires, it’s a cable car. (And just to confuse things further, San Francisco is also one of the Main Differences Between Trains and Trams. A train is a heavyweight mode of transportation, whereas trams are a lightweight mode of transportation. There are several carriages and coaches attached to the engine of a train, whereas in trams, there are fewer coaches and carriages. The tracks laid for running trains are heavyweight iron tracks to Canberra and Newcastle are over $80 million per kilometre, as was the cancelled light rail in Perth. The trackless tram costs around $6-$8 million per kilometre. And it can be put into a road Peak Tram. The peak tram is the first mode of rail transport in Hong Kong, running between the Peak, mid levels and city centre. It runs on rails, but in fact it is a “funicular railway” with TsmUj2A.