The Inekon 01 Trio is an

articulated An articulated vehicle is a vehicle which has a permanent or semi-permanent pivot joint in its construction, allowing it to turn more sharply. There are many kinds, from heavy equipment to buses, trams and trains. Steam locomotives were sometim ...

low-floor tram A low-floor tram is a tram that has no stairsteps between one or more entrances and part or all of the passenger cabin. The low-floor design improves the accessibility of the tram for the public, and also may provide larger windows and more airsp ...

manufactured by company

Inekon Trams Inekon Trams, a.s. is a manufacturer of trams, or Tram, streetcars, located in the Czech Republic, and has supplied new trams to several cities in the Czech Republic and the United States.Webb, Mary (ed.) (2009). ''Jane's Urban Transport Systems ...

. The company is a member of Inekon group. The tram is conceptually based on the

Škoda 03 T The Škoda 03 T (sold as Škoda Astra, later Škoda Anitra (''Asynchronní nízkopodlažní tramvaj''; Asynchronous Low-floor Tram)) is a three-section low-floor tram developed by Škoda Transportation and Inekon Group. The design was introduced i ...

developed by

Škoda Transportation Škoda Transportation a.s. is a Czech engineering company that continues the legacy of Škoda Works' rolling stock manufacturing that started at the end of 19th century in Plzeň. Following the first world war, the Works commenced locomotive p ...

and Inekon Group.

Design

The

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acce ...

between Škoda and Inekon was dissolved in 2001, after which Škoda continued to sell the 03 T, while Inekon formed a new partnership with DPO (''Dopravní podnik Ostrava'', the city transport company of

Ostrava Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four ri ...

),''

Tramways & Urban Transit ''Tramways & Urban Transit'' ''(TAUT'' or ''T&UT)'', also known as ''Modern Tramway'', is a British monthly magazine about tramways and light rail transport, published continuously since 1938. Its content is orientated both to tramway enthus ...

'', March 2002, p. 103. Light Rail Transit Association (UK). known as DPO Inekon, and in 2002 began selling a nearly identical version of the ''Astra'', under the name ''Trio''.''

'', September 2003, p. 347. Light Rail Transit Association (UK). . The ''Trio'' is a three-carbody-section, four-axle (two-

bogie A bogie ( ) (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework that carries a wheelset, attached to a vehicle—a modular subassembly of wheels and axles. Bogies take various forms in various modes of tr ...

) design, in which the low-floor area represents 50% of the entire vehicle floor area. The overall length is . The Inekon 01 Trio is a single-ended (uni-directional) version, buyers of which have included (as of 2008) the transport agencies in

Olomouc Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019). Located on th ...

and

. The first car was built in 2002, for Ostrava's tram system (DPO).

Deliveries and operation

References

External links

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Low-floor tramway INEKON 01 TRIO
{{InekonTram Tram vehicles of the Czech Republic