Other variants of the type were subsequently built for the VBZ, for other Swiss operators, and for the Italian city of Genoa.

As VBZ's network has turning loops at all termini, the cars are single-ended (have a driver's cab at only one end) and single-sided (have doors on only one side).

The car bodies were built by SWS, the bogies by SIG and the electrical equipment by BBC.

Of this batch, 53 were similar to the standard model delivered earlier, whilst a further 20 were non-articulated cars designated Be 2/4.

[citation needed] For the opening of the Genoa Metro in 1990, a fleet of six Be 4/6 standard gauge double-ended single-articulated cars were built to the Tram 2000 design.

Unlike their counterparts on Swiss tramways, these high-floor cars operate on segregated right of way and serve stations with matching high platforms.

Following the successful conclusion of these, 22 identical sections were ordered from Winpro (formerly SLM) using bogies from Alstom.

[9] As of 2013, no large scale withdrawals of Tram 2000 vehicles have taken place, and the design is still in service with all its original users.

Most will be scrapped, but 35 are to be donated to the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, as VBZ previously did with its 1960s Karpfen and Mirage rolling stock.