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Hannover und Braunschweig hat aber andere Wagen, die hier gibt's nur in Köln, Bonn und Manchester.
http://goteborgssparvagar.se/form-och-design-klar-goteborgs-nya-sparvagn/
An interesing story about the trams here that was made to save money was with the old M21's. They consisted only of two carriages with indoor stairs and where orderd in the 80's.
At the turn of the century, more capacity was needed as well as a more sustainable tram for wheelchairs and strollers, thus they rebuilt the M21 to become M31. What they did was to plit the two highfloor carriges the tram consisted of and build a lowfloor carridge inbetween. The new cart didn't need any more axels and so a lot of space was saved....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Stadtbahn
Well these lightrails came to be from the 70's, when some cities in Germany went to gradually turn their tram systems into something that's more like a metro, including doors without any stairs. Only, low-floor trains like the one in your picture were not yet invented back then, so the only option was to raise up the whole train and the platforms. That way, there was also more room for the bigger and more powerful engines they needed, because they were also meant to go faster than classic trams.
The K5000 came when some of the classic trams still running on the lightrail reached the end of their lives, and some more when the first generation of dedicated lightrail trains was mostly retired.
They go just about anywhere. On the streets, on their own tracks - sometimes parallel to a street, sometimes completely independent, underground, elevated...
I hope that clears things up a little :)
Yes. It's a lightrail ("Stadtbahn") vehicle, it combines features of a tram, a metro and a train. As far as hitting pedestrians goes, I would assume these are actually less dangerous than typical trolleys - more survival space underneath.