Customer : NTL – Groupe Alstom
Since 2012, NTL, an Alstom Group subsidiary, has been the designer and manufacturer of Translohr wheeled trams, which were initially designed, developed, manufactured and marketed by the Alsatian company LOHR. At the heart of today’s ecomobility challenges, the solutions developed by NTL are part of the new generation of urban transport systems: accessible, electric and capable.
Area of intervention
Since the creation of the Translohr tramway, HAIKU DESIGN has been involved with NTL in the definition, generation of ideas, design studies and testing of the various variants, developments and customer customisations of the models in the range.
The decentralised driver station groups together all the information, control and command components intended for the tram driver-machinist and usable in driving and operating modes.
The tramway’s man-machine interface (HMI) brings together all the information, monitoring and command components for the driver/machinist, which can be used in driving and maintenance modes.
Deployed on all trams, the driver station and its HMI have been designed and developed jointly by HAIKU DESIGN and the manufacturer since the first TRANSLOHR models, in collaboration with specialist ergonomists, and supervised in particular by experts working with the transport network operators SMTC of Clermont-Ferrand and RATP.
At the initiative of the STRMTG (Service Technique des Remontées Mécaniques et des Transports Guidés), a government certification service under the aegis of the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, the study of the Translohr driver’s cab was part of an overall study carried out by the STRMTG over several months in collaboration with manufacturers of rail systems, leading to the drafting of a guide to the design of tramway driver’s cabs.
