Mercedes-Benz O405 (VÖV-II) – Classic High-Floor Bus Mod

Mercedes-Benz O405 (VÖV-II) – Classic German High-Floor City Bus

The Mercedes-Benz O405 is Mercedes's implementation of the VÖV-II standardized city bus specification, the second-generation municipal transit standard developed by the German Association of Public Transport Operators in the early 1980s. This Proton Bus Simulator mod brings the high-floor classic into PBSU with the authentic 1980s-90s German urban transit profile, semi-realistic physics, 11 animations and a fully animated interior that defined municipal fleet service before low-floor buses took over in the late 1990s.

Highlights and Features

• Operate the iconic high-floor classic that dominated German municipal fleets through the 1980s and 1990s
• Experience the VÖV-II standard specification developed by the German Association of Public Transport Operators
• Drive a pre-low-floor era city bus that contrasts with the modern Citaro-generation models in your fleet
• Operate 11 animation channels with a fully detailed interior and authentic 1980s Mercedes dashboard layout

Compatibility and Technical Details

About the Real Mercedes-Benz O405

The Mercedes-Benz O405 is Mercedes's implementation of the VÖV-II standardized urban bus specification, developed by the Verband Öffentlicher Verkehrsbetriebe (Association of German Public Transport Operators) as the second-generation common-platform standard for municipal city bus procurement in West Germany. Produced from 1983 to 2001 at Mercedes-Benz's Mannheim plant, the O405 was operated across German municipal fleets through the 1980s and 1990s, with variants exported to operators in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa. The platform's step-entrance high-floor design predates the low-floor era that began in earnest with the 1997 Citaro launch, making the O405 a defining classic of pre-accessibility-standard urban transit.

Credits

Original 3D model: MAMUT. Conversion to Proton Bus Simulator: Bus Simulation Channel. Texture optimization for mobile performance: Proton Bus Mods.