A hybrid training platform: a real traction-lever joystick, a virtual cab worked with VR hands, and crises injected live — pedestrians, vehicles, obstacles — with every reaction measured.
The tram simulation is a hybrid training platform that develops tram drivers' driving competence and crisis-moment reflexes in a risk-free virtual environment.
Emergency scenarios that carry a risk of loss of life and property in the real world — collisions, emergency braking — are tested here with zero risk, maximising drivers' operational decision-making under stress.
Physical and virtual components together: more realism, optimised cockpit costs.
Collision and emergency-brake scenarios that cannot be rehearsed on a real line.
The reaction time is measured from the moment a crisis is injected.
Every run becomes a concrete performance report in the web panel.
To increase realism and optimise cockpit costs, the system combines physical and virtual components — and adds live scenario control and web telemetry on top.
The tram's acceleration and braking dynamics come from real tram joystick hardware, building muscle memory.
Doors, lighting, announcements and wipers are operated on 3D buttons in the virtual environment, with VR hands.
During an active drive the admin suddenly adds a pedestrian, civil vehicle or environmental obstacle to the route and tests how quickly the emergency-brake protocol is applied.
Speed violations, stop-and-go precision, reaction times — all telemetry is transferred to a central database.
The data is processed in a web-based panel into concrete, certification-ready performance reports for every driver.
Normal service builds the routine; the admin can turn any moment of it into a crisis.
The route with its stops, seen from the driver's seat through the headset: departing on the traction lever, service braking into each platform and stopping on the marker. Stop-and-go precision is measured at every stop.
Junctions, crossings and platforms bring lower limits. Every overshoot is logged as a speed violation in the driver's telemetry.
The admin spawns a pedestrian in front of the tram mid-drive. The reaction time from the spawn to the emergency brake and the stopping distance are recorded.
A car cuts across the rails at a junction or stalls on the track. The collision scenario that is too dangerous to stage for real is rehearsed with zero risk.
A fallen tree or another obstacle suddenly appears on the route. The driver has to recognise it, decide and apply the emergency-brake protocol in time — the reaction time is recorded.
Doors at the platform, lighting, passenger announcements and wipers when the weather turns — all worked on 3D buttons with VR hands, while the lever stays in the other hand.
All telemetry is transferred to the central database and processed in a web-based panel into concrete, certification-ready performance reports for every driver.
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Open simulation →Direct-drive steering, a moving seat that pitches and rolls, and a passenger-comfort index built from real G-forces.
Open simulation →See the hybrid simulator live: the physical traction lever, the virtual cab with VR hands, live crisis injection and the web panel reports.
