All Europe articles – Page 24
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NewsBYD signs Messina electric midibus contract
ITALY: Messina municipality signed a contract to purchase 13 electric midibuses from BYD, the supplier announced on August 21. To be delivered in two batches this year, the 8·7 m long buses will have two doors and capacity for 53 passengers. The municipality will own the buses, which ...
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NewsFrankfurt light rail vehicles to be lengthened
GERMANY: Bombardier is to supply 22 light rail vehicle centre sections for Frankfurt am Main transport operator VGF. The 25 m long modules will be used to lengthen VGF’s U5-50 LRVs to 75 m or 100 m. Bombardier supplied the fleet of high-floor U5 vehicles. The centre sections will ...
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NewsNext Firenze tram route to open in November
ITALY: Opening of Firenze tram line T2 is now expected in November, after the President of the design-build-operate concessionaire confirmed that work would not be completed at the end of August as planned. Tram di Firenze President Fabrizio Bartaloni confirmed that work is expected to be completed ...
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NewsSolaris wins Berlin electric bus order
GERMANY: Berlin transport operator BVG has ordered 15 Solaris Urbino 12 electric buses. The 12 m long vehicles are due to arrive in 2019, when they will join the five already in operation. The buses will have axles with integrated traction motors and Solaris High Energy batteries with a ...
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Metro Report InternationalItalian urban transport funding allocated
ITALY: The Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport has allocated a total of €1·4bn to urban transport projects throughout the country. Roma is the largest recipient, with a total of €425·5m. The larger part of this, €291·1m, would be spent on upgrading metro lines A and B, including the power ...
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NewsVolvo wins Uddevalla battery bus order
SWEDEN: Bivab and Uddevalla Omnibus have ordered four Volvo 7900 Electric buses for use in the city of Uddevalla. The vehicles are expected to enter service in mid-2019. Volvo will undertake maintenance for both the vehicles and their batteries at a fixed monthly cost. Maintenance will be handled by ...
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NewsFirst Stadler Tango tram enters service in Ostrava
CZECH REPUBLIC: The first of 30 trams that Stadler is supplying to Ostrava entered revenue service on Route 4 on August 13. The Tango NF2 nOVA arrived in Ostrava from Stadler’s Siedlce factory in Poland on April 23, and has undergone two months of test running on the city’s ...
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NewsCentral Suburban Passenger Co orders EMUs
RUSSIA: Moscow commuter operator Central Suburban Passenger Co has awarded Transmashholding’s Demikhovsky Engineering Plant a contract to supply 10 Type EP2D electric multiple-units by the end of the year This follows from an order for 10 units delivered earlier this year for use on the routes from Moscow’s Kursk, Riga ...
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NewsSouth Wales Metro rolling stock order confirmed
UK: Stadler Rail has been confirmed as preferred bidder to supply rolling stock for use on the South Wales Metro network serving Cardiff. The Swiss company is to supply 36 three-car Citylink tram-train vehicles for use on services to Treherbert, Aberdare and Merthyr Tydfil. These would be able to ...
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NewsPadova to receive BYD electric buses
ITALY: BYD has won a tender to supply six electric buses to operate in Padova. The 12 m long buses will be operated by Busitalia Veneto, a subsidiary of Busitalia Sita Nord, which is owned jointly by FS Group and the municipality’s APS Holding. BYD has previously supplied electric ...
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Metro Report InternationalEdinburgh seeks tram driver vigilance system
UK: City of Edinburgh Council and Edinburgh Trams have launched a competition offering funding to develop an automated driver vigilance system for its trams. The Driver Innovation Safety Challenge, supported by industry body UK Tram, would provide the winner with £168 000 for up to two years from Scottish ...
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Metro Report InternationalGRP overhead electrification mast trial
GERMANY: Karlsruhe regional light rail operator AVG is to test glass-reinforced plastic electrification masts supplied by the Powerlines Group at a turning loop in Ettlingen from September. A similar GRP mast has been on test at Oostende on the Belgian coastal tram line since 2013, where it is exposed to ...
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NewsSolaris electric buses enter service in Kristiansand
NORWAY: Solaris has delivered five Urbino 12 electric buses to Kristiansand. Operator Boreal Buss is using the vehicles on route 10. Solaris signed a €3m contract with Boreal Buss last year. The 12 m long buses are fitted with two 125 kW traction motors powered by 145 kWh Solaris ...
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NewsBolzano tram agreement signed
ITALY: Bolzano Mayor Renzo Caramaschi and Trentino-Alto Adige President Arno Kompatscher signed an agreement on August 2 to study the feasibility of developing a tram line in Bolzano. The 7 km route would serve 17 stops between Sigmundskron southwest of the city centre and the railway station. Services would ...
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NewsMidland Metro third-generation tram procurement launched
UK: The West Midlands Combined Authority has begun the process of procuring a third generation of trams for the Midland Metro line, including future extensions. The start of procurement follows a market sounding exercise undertaken earlier this year. The planned framework contract with an estimated value of £150m plus VAT ...
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NewsAlstom signs Athens tram contract
GREECE: Attiko Metro signed a contract with Alstom on July 27 for the supply of 25 trams. The contract is worth €54m excluding VAT, and includes spare parts and maintenance equipment. The EU is providing co-funding from its European Regional Development Fund. The first tram is expected to enter ...
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NewsBombardier to supply more Francilien EMUs
FRANCE: Bombardier Transportation is to supply further 36 Francilien high-capacity suburban electric multiple-units to SNCF, which has placed the €261m order announced on July 30 on behalf of Greater Paris transport authority Île-de-France Mobilités. The firm order has been placed within a 2006 framework agreement covering up to 372 EMUs, ...
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NewsIrizar signs Aix-en-Provence electric bus contract
FRANCE: Irizar announced on July 27 that it had signed a contract with transport authority RDT 13 to supply 15 electric buses for use on the planned L’Aixpress route in Aix-en-Provence. The Spanish manufacturer will supply a 12 m version of its Irizar ie tram model, along with charging ...
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NewsNext phase of Luxembourg tramway inaugurated
LUXEMBOURG: The next phase of Luxembourg City’s tramway was inaugurated on July 27, becoming the first part of the route with no overhead wires. The western extension from Pafendall-Rout Bréck to Place de l’Etoile has intermediate stops at Theater and Faïencerie. To enable catenary-free operation, the trams are equipped ...
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NewsIstanbul’s third airport to gain metro link in November 2019
TURKEY: The first metro line serving Istanbul’s third airport is scheduled to open on November 24 2019, the Ministry for Transportation, Maritime & Communications has told Metro Report International. The 37·5 km route with nine stations is being build by a consortium of Kolin and Şenbay under a €999·8m ...