--- title: The Trains With Rubber Tires | daily.dev description: Rubber-tired metro systems emerged in post-WWII Paris as a collaboration between RATP and Michelin, offering advantages like reduced noise, better grip on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-trains-with-rubber-tires-3qmrnggvh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Trains With Rubber Tires | daily.dev og:description: Rubber-tired metro systems emerged in post-WWII Paris as a collaboration between RATP and Michelin, offering advantages like reduced noise, better grip on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-trains-with-rubber-tires-3qmrnggvh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3QMRNggvH.png og:image:alt: The Trains With Rubber Tires og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Trains With Rubber Tires **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Rubber-tired metro systems emerged in post-WWII Paris as a collaboration between RATP and Michelin, offering advantages like reduced noise, better grip on steep grades, and improved passenger comfort compared to traditional steel-wheel-on-steel-rail systems. These benefits made them attractive for cities like Mexico City (unstable soils), Montreal, and Santiago. However, drawbacks include higher track construction costs, shorter tire lifespan, lower energy efficiency, increased heat generation underground, and particulate pollution. Today, rubber-tired metros operate on several Paris Metro lines and in cities worldwide, though they remain a niche solution rather than a mainstream replacement for conventional rail. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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