A bellows for a passage between two articulated vehicles or for an air passenger stair or bridge has a plurality of folds or waves arranged behind one another. A floor region has at least one inner jacket and at least one outer jacket spaced from the inner jacket. An intermediate layer is disposed between and spaced apart from the inner and outer and is fire-retardant.

An articulated electric bus includes two units with: a passenger compartment including a main floor forming a low and thin platform with a planar surface extending over the majority of the width of the passenger compartment, a wheel housing adjacent to the planar surface, a longitudinal row of seat places on the wheel housing, and a driving wheel which is housed in the wheel housing under the longitudinal row of seats. The driving wheel defines a rotation axis and includes an electric engine, and a rim with a rim top above the planar surface. The driving wheel is vertically movable with respect to the planar surface, and the wheel housing actually receives a pair or a couple of driving wheels.

A bellows assembly for an articulated vehicle connects a first vehicle module and a second vehicle module. The bellows assembly forms a tube between the first vehicle module and the second vehicle module with a top region and a bottom region, the top region corresponding to a roof region of the vehicle above an aisle of the vehicle. The bellows assembly includes a section configured to receive a lighting installation, the section being arranged in the top region of the bellows assembly. Further, an articulated vehicle with such a bellows assembly and a system for installing such a bellows assembly is described.

A gangway for connecting a first car with a second car and allowing passage of passengers from the first car to the second car, has a first hoop for attaching the gangway to the first car, a second hoop for attaching the gangway to the second car, a third hoop and a fourth hoop, the third and fourth hoops being arranged between the first hoop and the second hoop. A connection element is arranged between the third hoop and the fourth hoop and elastically connects the third hoop to the fourth hoop.

A material web for a bellows of a gangway between two articulately connected vehicles or a material web for a canopy roof of an air passenger bridge or air passenger stair has at least one reinforcement layer and an elastomer coating on each side of the reinforcement layer. The reinforcement layer is a nonwoven material and an adhesion-promoting layer is disposed between the nonwoven material and the elastomer coatings.

A middle hoop system for a vehicle joint arranged between a vehicle front part and a vehicle rear part of a vehicle and forms a passage between the vehicle front part and the vehicle rear part. The middle hoop surrounds the passage. The middle hoop system comprises a cable strand which extends between the vehicle front part and the vehicle rear part, wherein the cable strand is arranged above the passage. The middle hoop system comprises a pivot lever between the middle hoop and the cable strand. A first pivot joint is formed between the pivot lever and the middle hoop. In a preferred embodiment, the pivot lever guides the cable strand at a distance from the first pivot joint. The middle hoop system is cost-effective and provides reliable guidance for the cable strand.

A treadplate for a floor of a gangway the treadplate having a basic body of a first material, and a plurality of bones of a second material, wherein the bones are encapsulated by the first material, wherein the second material has a higher elastic modulus than the first material and/or the stiffness of at least one bone of the several bones is higher than the stiffness of the basic body.

Described is a device for connecting between the bellows and the frame of articulated vehicles, including a connecting element having a hooking portion which can be coupled to an end edge of a bellows, and an engagement portion which can be inserted in a compartment defined by a rigid support of the frame of the vehicle and abutting at least one first inner wall of the compartment; the device also has an elastically deformable insertion element, also positioned in the compartment between the connecting element and a second inner wall, for stably engaging the engagement portion against said first inner wall. The insertion element and the connecting element comprise reciprocal coupling means configured for making a mutual connection between the insertion element and the connecting element.

The present invention relates to the use of a multi-layered sheet material (1) comprising a reinforcing member (2), having a polymer coating (3) at least on one side, preferably on both sides, wherein the reinforcing member (2) comprises at least one backing fabric (6) made of warp threads (7a,b) and weft threads (8a,b), and wherein the sheet material (1) comprises at least one channel (12) extending through the sheet material (1), and wherein the warp and weft threads (7a,b; 8a; 8b) are woven together such that the backing fabric (6) comprises both single layer fabric regions (14) and at least one at least two-layered fabric region having at least two fabric layers (15a,b), which are not joined together, so that the channel (12) is each formed between the fabric layers (15a,b), as a bellows wall (19) of a crossway bellows (16), a crossway element comprising such a sheet material for the protection of a passageway of two vehicle parts or components, which are connected together movably relative to each other, against external influences, as well as a vehicle, a flight passenger bridge or staircase and a building connection comprising such a crossway element.

A joint is connected between floors of a vehicle that are movable relative to each other. The joint includes a plurality of hinged segments to accommodate vertical and longitudinal relative motion between the floors. At least one of the hinged segments includes a flat, walkable surface aligned with the floors.