All Metro Report International articles – Page 156
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Metro Report InternationalLondon orders fuel cell powered double-deck buses
UK: Transport for London has placed a £12m order for Wrightbus to supply what the authority says will be the world’s first hydrogen-powered double-deck buses, and their associated fuelling infrastructure. The 20 buses will be fitted with FCveloCity-HD 85 kW fuel cell modules from Ballard Power Systems. They are ...
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Metro Report InternationalTransdev wins Fairfax County bus contract
USA: Virginia’s Fairfax County Department of Transportation has awarded Transdev Group a contract to operate and maintain the Fairfax Connector bus network for five years from July 1, with an option for a further 10 years. The contract is worth almost €400m. It covers the operation of 16 million bus-km/year ...
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Metro Report InternationalAnaheim Transportation Network orders battery buses
USA: California’s Anaheim Transportation Network has awarded BYD a contract to supply 40 battery-electric buses. Half of these will be the BYD K9M design, the others the shorter BYD K7M and articulated K11M. The order is being placed through two existing contracts in Washington and Georgia, which local authorities and ...
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Metro Report InternationalAmsterdam trams to be fitted with collision warning system
NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam city transport operator GVB has called tenders for the supply of a collision warning system for its fleet of 155 Siemens Combino trams, saying this would assist tram drivers, help improve road safety in the increasingly busy city and reduce damage to its vehicles. GVB envisages that cameras ...
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Stadler inaugurates Salt Lake City factory
USA: Vehicles being built for Caltrain and TEXRail were used to re-enact the completion of the transcontinental railway at Promontory Summit 150 years before as part of celebrations marking the official inauguration of Stadler US Inc’s factory in Salt Lake City on May 9. ‘It seems fitting that as we ...
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Metro Report InternationalElevated section of Buenos Aires commuter line inaugurated
ARGENTINA: President Mauricio Macri inaugurated a new viaduct on the Retiro – Tigre branch of the Mitre suburban railway serving Buenos Aires on May 10. The 3·9 km structure between Avenida Dorrego and Avenida Monroe eliminates eight level crossings. Two stations on the section have been rebuilt. Belgrano station ...
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Metro Report InternationalUrban mobility a feature of FS Group’s investment plan
ITALY: State railway holding FS Group Chief Executive Gianfranco Battisti unveiled an ‘unprecedented’ spending programme on May 10, with €58bn to be invested across various modes in 2019-23. A total of €28bn is to be spent on rail infrastructure and €14bn on the strategic road network through FS Group’s ...
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Metro Report InternationalIVU wins København light rail contract
DENMARK: IVU Traffic Technologies is to supply its IVU.suite fleet management system for the Ring 3 light rail line in København, which is due to open in 2025. The 29 Avenio trams that Siemens is supplying for the project will be fitted with an IVU.box.touch on-board computer running IVU.cockpit ...
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Metro Report InternationalFast tram plan for Minsk
BELARUS: A feasibility study is to be carried out for a 9·4 km fast tram route in Minsk after the city authorities approved the plan. The route would run from the existing tram terminus at Ploshcha Myasnikova in the city centre to the Sukharevo district in the ...
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Metro Report InternationalMendoza light rail line extended
ARGENTINA: Governor Alfredo Cornejo inaugurated the first extension of Mendoza’s light rail line on May 6. The 5·4 km northern extension from the city’s former railway station to Avellaneda in Las Heras district adds nine stops. Services operate every 10 min, and three additional vehicles have been added to ...
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Metro Report InternationalElectric buses handed over in Badajoz
SPAIN: Badajoz Mayor Francisco Javier Fragoso attended a ceremony on May 9 marking the delivery of 15 battery electric buses from Chinese manufacturer BYD. Transport operator Tubasa, a Grupo Ruiz subsidiary, placed the order in July 2018, as part of the city’s plan to have a completely electric bus ...
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Metro Report InternationalScomi Rail ordered to wind up
MALAYSIA: The High Court ordered the winding-up of monorail manufacturer Scomi Rail on May 6. The order follows Scomi Rail defaulting on debts to Maybank and Voyage Logistics International (Malaysia). The property of the Scomi Engineering subsidiary, which had a net book value of just under 507m ringgit on ...
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Metro Report InternationalPK TS wins further St Petersburg tram order
RUSSIA: St Petersburg tram operator Gorelektrotrans announced on May 6 that PK TS was the sole bidder for a 2bn rouble contract to supply 21 three-section trams. It is thought that other producers did not bid owing to the tight delivery schedule: tenders were called on April 15 and ...
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Metro Report InternationalPassenger service begins on Doha metro Red Line
QATAR: A soft launch for the driverless Doha metro took place on May 8 with the start of passenger services on the Red Line. Services are operating between 08.00 and 23.00 on the section between Al Qassar in the north and Al Wakra in the south, with 13 stations. The ...
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Metro Report InternationalDriving towards a digital future
Siemens Mobility plans to focus on aspects of digitalisation at the forthcoming UITP Summit in Stockholm, presenting three key streams ahead of the event.
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Metro Report InternationalBYD wins further Swedish electric bus order
SWEDEN: Bus operator Nobina has ordered 20 K11 articulated electric buses from BYD. Deliveries of the 18 m long vehicles are due to begin at the end of 2019. Four of the buses will be put into service in the Barkarby district of Stockholm, and 16 in Linköping. The ...
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Metro Report InternationalFirst G1 metro train arrives in Nürnberg
GERMANY: The first of 34 Type G1 metro trainsets that Siemens is supplying to Nürnberg transport operator VAG arrived at VAG’s Langwasser depot on May 3. The four-car trainset was delivered by rail from Siemens’ Wien factory. It is expected to enter passenger service on Line U1 at the ...
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Metro Report InternationalMain work begins on Manila metro extension
PHILIPPINES: Main works on the southern extension of Manila metro Line 1 were launched at a ceremony on May 7. An event to mark the start of enabling works had taken place in May 2017. The 11·7 km extension to Bacoor in Cavite province is expected to be completed ...
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Metro Report InternationalFirst driverless Glasgow Subway train delivered
UK: The first of 17 driverless metro trainsets that Stadler is supplying for the Glasgow Subway has arrived in the city ahead of the start of on-site testing. Two more are due to be delivered by the end of the summer. In March 2016 Strathclyde Partnership for Transport approved the ...
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Metro Report InternationalTianshui tram rolled out
CHINA: China Railway Signal & Communications Group has rolled out at its Changsha factory the first of 17 trams that it is supplying to operate the initial tram route being developed in Tianshui. The five-section Pioneer tram has a capacity of 370 passengers including 58 seated. The 100% low-floor ...