Linking multiple units means making the stations longer. A more likely scenario is to deploy more units and deal with staffing by migrating to autonomous operation.
With computerized control and a comms link between the vehicles, you could probably have one vehicle follow 1m behind another, so they are effectively a train. If you still have a driver at all, you only need one in the front vehicle.
I don't think you could do that for CVLR specifically as it's not segregated from traffic and the second car would have to react individually to vehicles, pedestrians, roundabouts, etc.
Linking multiple units means making the stations longer. A more likely scenario is to deploy more units and deal with staffing by migrating to autonomous operation.
In CVLR, you actually cannot as the extreme bogey angles mean they can only operate individually. You also can't order longer cars.
You can run them at high frequency though.
With computerized control and a comms link between the vehicles, you could probably have one vehicle follow 1m behind another, so they are effectively a train. If you still have a driver at all, you only need one in the front vehicle.
I don't think you could do that for CVLR specifically as it's not segregated from traffic and the second car would have to react individually to vehicles, pedestrians, roundabouts, etc.
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