Parry People Movers Tram-Train Creating a vehicle as attractive as an electrified super tram with much lower running costs using lightweighting and innovative super hybrid technologies

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Parry People Movers Tram Train; creates an innovative low carbon transport alternative toestablished heavy rail and electrified tram modes. JPM Parry and Associates have projectmanaged and created the 'Class 139' Parry People Mover Railcars, its precursors. A seven daya week first adoption operation on the national rail network, established 2009, has seen theseinnovative railcars increase service freqency whilst cutting carbon emissions by a third andoperating costs by half. Spearheading a new concept with a simple aim, to make local railservices more affordable and more sustainable, PPM vehicles enable energy efficient railtravel, with its many benefits, in parts of the country deemed not to warrant a rail service. Thetechnology can also enhance the sustainability of services already in operation, as proven atStourbridge in the West Midlands where the pilot service has achived reliability of 99.4%throughout 2010 and continued to better this figure during early months of 2011, despite thecold weather disabled many heavy rail vehicles all around the country.The challenge now is to harness this proven innovative technology, whereby a small 2.3 litrecar engine coupled to a flywheel enables the carriage of up to 60 people, to power a largervehicle capable of carrying greater numbers of passengers at a higher speed. These criteria arevital in order to respond to demands from the UK rail industry, as well as to create a servicethat can re-open passenger services away from the existing franchised network.Railways currently used only for freight are immediate candidates for a revived passengerservice. To be suitable for these circumstances, JPM Parry and Associates must enhance theride quality of the design to cope with less than perfect track conditions typical on these routeswhile ensuring that the designs meet regulatory specifications for 'interoperability', the abilityfor an innovative lightweight vehicles to run amongst conventional trains.