东京是公共汽车，是火车，是DMV！世界上第一辆兼具公路和铁路双重功能的双模式汽车将于周六在日本德岛县的海阳镇公开亮相。
DMV 看起来像一辆小巴，在路上使用普通的橡胶轮胎。但是当它到达交汇处时，钢轮从车辆的腹部下降到铁轨上，有效地将其变成了火车车厢。
火车轮将前轮胎抬离轨道，而后轮保持向下以将 DMV 推上铁路。
运营 DMV 的 Asa Coast Railway 公司的首席执行官表示，这些车辆可以帮助像 Kaiyo 这样人口老龄化和人口减少的小城镇，当地的运输公司难以盈利。
“这（DMV）可以到达当地人（作为公共汽车），并将他们带到铁路上，”首席执行官Shigeki Miura周五告诉路透社。 “特别是在人口老龄化的农村地区，我们希望它成为一种非常好的公共交通方式。”
Asa Coast Railway 表示，DMV 最多可搭载 21 名乘客，在铁路轨道上以 60 公里/小时（37 英里/小时）的速度行驶，在公共道路上的行驶速度可高达 100 公里/小时（62 英里/小时）左右。
由柴油驱动的小车队，颜色各异，将沿着日本南部四国岛的部分海岸行驶，连接几个小镇，为乘客提供迷人的海滨风光。
三浦表示，他希望该项目能够鼓励日本各地的铁路爱好者前来参观。
Bus or train? World's first 'dual-mode vehicle' to begin operating in Japan
TokyoIt's a bus, it's a train, it's a DMV! The world's first dual-mode vehicle, equally at home on road and rail, is set to make its public debut on Saturday in the town of Kaiyo in Japan's Tokushima prefecture.
The DMV looks like a minibus and runs on normal rubber tires on the road. But when it arrives at an interchange, steel wheels descend from the vehicle's underbelly onto the rail track, effectively turning it into a train carriage.
The train wheels lift the front tires off the track while the rear wheels stay down to propel the DMV onto the railway.
The CEO of Asa Coast Railway company, which operates the DMVs, said the vehicles could help small towns like Kaiyo with an aging and shrinking population, where local transport companies struggle to make a profit.
"This (DMV) can reach the locals (as a bus), and carry them onto the railway as well," CEO Shigeki Miura told Reuters on Friday. "Especially in rural areas with an aging population, we expect it to be a very good form of public transport."
The DMV can carry up to 21 passengers and runs at a speed of 60km/h (37 mph) on rail tracks and can go as fast as around 100km/h (62 mph) on public roads, Asa Coast Railway said.
Powered by diesel fuel, the small fleet of vehicles, which come in different colors, will run along part of the coast of Shikoku island in southern Japan, connecting several small towns and offering passengers attractive seaside scenery.
Miura said he hoped the project would encourage railway fans from around Japan to visit.
