Ideas Zugcity: S-Bahn in the future - seating

With the quality of the S-Bahn trains in the country, not every passenger is satisfied. The fact that you have tried to improve improvements is to illustrate the concept of a local train that the Deutsche Bahn has now presented. However, the "Idea ZugCity" is only a model, but at least in scale 1: 1, and also walkable.

More capacities at the push of a button

Flexible: In peak times with high passenger traffic, the seating furniture can be flaps. Db

The central concern of the future train is to be able to adapt the seating offer to the number of passengers. So there is a comfort mode with many seating and capacity mode, in which more open space for standing places and - especially in the multi-purpose area - are available for bicycles or children's clothing. "Unique worldwide" is the flexible space concept, such as Jörg Sandvoss, CEO of DB Regio AG, says "At the touch of a button, we increase the capacity by up to 40 percent".

Digital slides

The seats can be moved, for example, turning and moving away or change from opposite to the longitudinal arrangement. Working passengers find folding tables and screens on their places to which they can connect their laptop. And on the windows digital foils are placed, which signal the passengers waiting at the station, where they find room for their bike or where wheelchair users are best boarding.

Orientation facilitates: pictograms applied to digital films continue. Db

Further information provides the 180-degree display on the head of the train, which automatically adapts to the viewing angle of the waiting ones, the indication of the destination station then switches from a central to a lateral position.

As early as 2018, DB Regio has presented the "Idea Zuggio" in the model; First approaches have already been implemented in the Munich S-Bahn and should also provide more comfort in Stuttgart and Hamburg trains as well as in the Southeast Bavaria.