Fleet
The Berlin tram has three different families of vehicles. In addition to Tatra high-floor vehicles there are low floor six-axle double articulated trams in unidirectional and bidirectional version (GT6N and GT6N-ZR), and since 2008, the new Flexity Berlin.
The number of trams has shrunk continuously. The BVB had 1024 vehicles, while currently there are about 600. The reduction is possible because the new low-floor cars on average achieve more than twice the mileage per year (100,000 kilometres), and, being longer, carry more passengers and therefore rarely operate in double header.
In July 2006, the cost of energy per vehicle-kilometre was:
- tram €0.33
- coupled set €0.45
- bus €0.42
- underground train €1.18
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