All Europe articles – Page 29
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NewsChișinău expands battery trolleybus fleet
MOLDOVA: Chișinău trolleybus operator RTEC introduced a second route to the airport on May 7 when it launched Route 31 between the city centre and Sîngera in the southeast. Battery trolleybuses operate the 17·5 km route, as 11 km does not have overhead wires. The city has introduced five ...
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NewsTenders called for Olsztyn tram network expansion
POLAND: MPK Olsztyn has called tenders for the construction of a 6 km extension of the city’s 11 km tram network which opened in 2015. Bids are due by June 12 and the project has an estimated budget of 208m złoty. Construction is due to start in 2019 and ...
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NewsMetro do Porto changes operator
PORTUGAL: Barraqueiro Group began operating and maintaining the Metro do Porto light rail network last month under a €204·3m seven-year sub-concession contract. The network is now operated by a single company rather than a consortium for the first time. Barraqueiro previously led the ViaPORTO consortium with Arriva, Keolis and ...
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NewsMTR to bring rail and property development model to Europe
EUROPE: Hong Kong’s MTR Corp has appointed chartered surveyor John Robinson as Head of Property for its European Business, with the aim of bringing to Europe the Rail+Property development model which it has successfully used in China. Property developments at 39 stations in Hong Kong provide 100 000 residential ...
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Metro Report InternationalOld Oak Common Elizabeth Line depot opens
UK: The Elizabeth Line’s Old Oak Common depot in west London has started operations, Transport for London announced on May 10. The purpose-built facility occupies the site of a former freight locomotive depot. Construction took four years and was undertaken by Taylor Woodrow. The new depot will be used ...
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Metro Report InternationalDublin MetroLink designers appointed
IRELAND: A consortium of Jacobs Engineering Group and Idom has been selected by Transport Infrastructure Ireland to assist with development of the Dublin MetroLink north-south metro line, under a contract announced on May 9. Working with TII and the National Transport Authority, the consortium will take the scheme through the ...
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NewsMoscow orders 200 battery buses
RUSSIA: Moscow bus operator Mosgortrans has selected two manufacturers to supply a total of 200 electric buses and charging infrastructure. KAMAZ and GAZ are each to supply 100 low-floor battery buses. Each of the 6·35bn rouble orders include 15 years of maintenance, as well as the installation and maintenance ...
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NewsVDL wins Oslo electric bus order
NORWAY: Greater Oslo bus operator Unibuss placed an order for 40 electric buses from VDL Bus & Coach on May 8. Unibuss has ordered 30 Citeas SLFA-180 Electric buses, which have a 169 kWh battery pack, to operate on routes 20, 21, 28, 34, 37 and 54. A further ...
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NewsPeoplemover opens at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport
RUSSIA: An automated peoplemover opened at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on May 3. The 2 km cable-driven peoplemover links the newly opened Terminal B with terminals D, E and F on an underground alignment. Doppelmayr built the US$243m peoplemover and is providing 15 years of operations and maintenance under ...
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NewsFrance – Germany tram-train to be studied
EUROPE: A Franco-German feasibility study is to look at the possibility of using around 40 route-km of freight-only and disused railway lines to introduce a regional rail or tram-train style service linking Rastatt in Baden-Württemberg with Haganeu in Alsace. This would make use of an existing road-rail bridge over ...
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NewsKaluga trolleybus extension inaugurated
RUSSIA: Kaluga trolleybus operator UKT inaugurated a 3·3 km extension of Line 18 on April 29. The extension runs northwest from Ulitsa Generala Popova to Mikrorayon Koshelev. Line 18 is now 28 km long with 26 stops, offering an end-to-end journey time of 80 min between Dubrava and Mikrorayon ...
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Metro Report InternationalPSI to supply Berlin U-Bahn software
GERMANY: Berlin transport operator BVG has commissioned PSI Transcom to supply its PSItraffic software to support the management of operations on the metro network. PSI said the system would control and monitor ‘the largest contiguous public transport network of this kind in Germany’, managing the U-Bahn and around 1 200 ...
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NewsGrand Paris selects supplier for up to 1 000 driverless train cars
FRANCE: Alstom has been selected as preferred bidder to supply up to 1 000 large-profile metro cars to operate three lines of the automated Grand Paris Express network, project promoter Société du Grand Paris announced on May 2. As part of its 2010 mandate to deliver the infrastructure for ...
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NewsDortmund orders 24 light rail vehicles
GERMANY: Dortmund public transport authority DSW21 has awarded a €195m contract to a consortium of HeiterBlick and Kiepe Electric to supply 24 light rail vehicles and modernise 64 from the existing fleet. The first of the new high-floor bidirectional two-section LRVs is due to be delivered in 2020 and ...
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Metro Report InternationalTransport for London awards long-term drone inspection licence
UK: Transport for London has granted approval for Lanes Rail to use drones to carry out of asset surveys. This is the first long-term drone licence that TfL has awarded, and comes after a 12-month testing and approval process. In addition to having a Civil Aviation Authority UAV licence, ...
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NewsCAF to supply next generation of Amsterdam metro trains
NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam public transport authority GVB has selected CAF as preferred provider to supply up to 60 metro trainsets, it announced on April 30. A firm order for 30 type M7 trainsets would be used to replace older stock. GVB says that the S2 and S3 series trains are ...
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Metro Report InternationalIstanbul to increase capacity on Line M1
TURKEY: Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality expects to call tenders on May 15 to increase capacity on metro Line M1. The municipality expects the work on the 21 km route to take 2½ years. All station platforms are to be lengthened to accommodate five-car trainsets instead of four-car maximum now, and ...
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Metro Report InternationalBrussels inaugurates Marconi depot
BELGIUM: The new Marconi tram depot and maintenance facility in the southern Brussels district of Uccle was formally inaugurated on April 27 by the Minister of Mobility for the Brussels Capital Region Pascal Smet, STIB Chairman Thomas Ryckalts and CEO Brieuc de Meeûs. Financed by the Capital Region, the €80m ...
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NewsLisboa tram route reinstated after 23 years
PORTUGAL: Services restarted on tram route 24 in Lisboa on April 24, nearly 23 years after they were suspended. The 4 km north-south route links Campolide with Praça Luís de Camões. Services are initially worked with three refurbished trams, and could increase if demand is strong enough. Route 24 opened ...
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NewsMore Škoda trams delivered to Riga
LATVIA: The first of five 41 m long trams which Rīgas Satiksme ordered from Škoda Transportation in 2016 arrived in the city on the night of April 15-16 and was unloaded at the Aleksandra Vārtu depot. The €62·6m contract signed in April 2016 covers 15 three-section and five four-section ...