Expertise


design services

TDI has an outstanding portfolio of design work developed over the past 23 years. Typically TDI is commissioned to undertake the feasibility, layout, styling, interior design and production engineering of high speed trains, metros, light rail systems, monorails, people movers, buses and commercial vehicles. 

In public transport, project examples include the design of saloons, vestibules, toilet modules, driving cabs and control desks, detrainment systems, passenger seating, on-board catering equipment/galleys, IT and entertainment facilities as well as complete refurbishment solutions. In addition to vehicles, expertise also extends to the development of urban realm and related infrastructure components such as ticket offices, street furniture, signage and passenger information systems. 

TDI employs specialist industrial designers, ergonomists and mechanical engineers to develop fully styled, fully engineered solutions based on individual customer’s own technical performance specifications and industrial design brief. This ‘one-stop-shop' approach includes the following range of service: 

  • market research
  • feasibility studies & bid support
  • interior design
  • vehicle styling
  • graphics, liveries & corporate identities
  • human factors/ergonomics
  • 3D computer modelling in Catia, ProEngineer & 3D Studio
  •  annimations and walk-throughs 
  • scale models, full size mock-ups & prototypes
  • mechanical engineering
  • finite element analysis (FEA)
  • production design & documentation
  • project management