low-floor

English

Adjective

Of buses, trams or trains, built with a floor closer to ground level to ease access for passengers.
- 2020 November 4, Philip Haigh, “Easy to maintain, easy to use, but how easy to implement?”, in Rail, page 33:
  To date, only Stadler has brought low-floor trains to Britain, while the major rolling stock makers - Bombardier, Alstom, Siemens and Hitachi - seem wedded to trains with high floors that force passengers in wheelchairs to ask for help to board and alight trains.

Usage notes

A low-floor train needs to have floors at the same height as the platforms at the stations it serves. Many trains have floor heights above the height of the platforms.

References

“low-floor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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