All Metro articles – Page 133
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NewsBeijing orders driverless metro trains
CHINA: CNR Changchun is to supply 60 trains for the first driverless metro line in mainland China. The first two are due to be delivered in May, and will enter service on the 10 km Yanfang Line in Beijing from December 2015. The stainless-steel-bodied Type B trainsets will ...
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NewsIzmir tram contract awarded
TURKEY: Hyundai Rotem has won an 83·7bn won contract to supply 38 low-floor trams to Izmir, the Korean company announced on August 8. The vehicles will be used to operate the 12·6 km Konak Line and the 9·7 km Karsiyaka Line. Gülermak is the construction contractor for both routes, ...
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NewsLight rail test fleet
UK: Light rail industry association UK Tram and rail research and development organisation FutureRailway have agreed to set up a Light Rail Vehicle Test Fleet to support research and product development. West Midlands transport authority Centro has loaned the project two of the Ansaldo T69 trams which have been displaced ...
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NewsChicago receives upgrade funds
USA: Mayor Rahm Emanuel and US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced $35m in Core Capacity Grant Program funds for the Chicago Transit Authority on August 7. The funds make up part of the $43·7m required for preliminary designs, engineering and environmental planning for the first phase of the $4·7bn ...
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NewsAlstom and Huawei announce metro LTE trial
FRANCE: Alstom and Huawei are to test LTE multi-service broadband radio networking technology for metros at the French company’s Valenciennes site. The pilot project follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding by the companies in April. Huawei is to provide the LTE network, while Alstom will provide a trainset ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - August 2014
The Indian government has allocated Rs177·4m for Bangalore metro Phase II and expansion of Phase I by 2015. The EIB is to provide Düsseldorf’s Rheinbahn with a €150m loan for modernisation including procurement of around 40 trams and refurbishment of 100 existing vehicles by 2019. The 3·2 ...
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NewsFind a tram stop with augmented reality
INIT: Making public transport more attractive for passengers and more efficient for operators is the aim of the software developed by INIT, which will be demonstrating its latest innovations at InnoTrans 2014. The DEPARTURESlive iPhone application displays the nearest light rail or bus stops and departure times, or users can ...
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NewsSupercap trams enter service in Rostock
GERMANY: The first of 13 Vossloh Tramlink 6N2 trams equipped with roof-mounted supercapacitor energy storage units entered regular service in Rostock on July 30. All 13 are expected to be in service by the end of the year, replacing older Tatra T6 vehicles. The five-section 100% low-floor trams are 32 ...
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NewsBremen tram route extends out
GERMANY: A 5·5 km extension of Bremen tram Route 4 was officially inaugurated at 14.00 on August 1, with a public ceremony on the following Sunday. The 10-stop extension from Borgfeld to Falkenberg in the neighbouring town of Lilienthal is the first of the city’s tram routes to cross ...
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NewsGrand Paris funding
FRANCE: Société du Grand Paris approved €3·49bn for the Grand Paris project last month. The investment will go towards construction of Lines 16 between Noisy-Champs and Saint-Denis-Pleyel, as well as Line 17 South from Le Bourget RER station to Triangle-de-Gonesse and Line 14 North from Mairie de Saint-Ouen to Saint-Denis-Pleyel. ...
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NewsCAF to supply Monterrey fleet
MEXICO: Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF has announced that it is to supply 22 cars for Line 3 of the Monterrey metro, as leader of the consortium awarded a 20-year concession to build and operate the line on July 30. According to CAF, the funding package for the project was ...
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NewsCzech-Chinese joint venture targets China’s tram market
CHINA: Tong Hao Railway Vehicles Corp has been established as a joint venture of state-owned China Railway Signal & Communication Corp (66%), Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Group Corp (17%) and Czech company Inekon Group (17%) with the aim of producing low-floor trams for the Chinese market. The joint venture is ...
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NewsCAF metro trains enter service in Bucureşti
ROMANIA: The first CAF trainset entered service on Bucureşti metro Line M2 this month. By the end of the year the total fleet of 16 is expected to be in operation on the 18·6 km route. Operator Metrorex ordered 16 six-car trainsets from CAF in November 2011 for €97m. ...
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NewsDirect award as Berlin S-Bahn tender delayed
GERMANY: The Länder of Berlin and Brandenburg have announced their intention to directly award DB subsidiary S-Bahn Berlin GmbH an interim contract for the operation of the capital's ‘Ring’ group of S-Bahn services. The direct award contract would run for 69 months from December 17 2017, giving the transport ...
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NewsAtkins to design Qatar Gold Line
QATAR: Atkins has been selected as lead designer for the Doha metro Gold Line project. The east-west line from Airport City North to Al Rayyan South is scheduled to open by 2019 under Phase 1 of Qatar’s four-line metro plan. The design contract announced on July 30 is worth £80m ...
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NewsMálaga light rail opens
SPAIN: The two-line Málaga light rail network opened on July 30. The east-west 6·7 km Line 1 runs at-grade from Andalucía Tech to Universidad, after which it goes into a tunnel. The eastern terminus is El Perchel, where interchange is provided with the underground Line 2, which runs 4·6 ...
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NewsWashington metro paperless ticket contract
USA: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has awarded Cubic Transportation Systems an $8m contract to convert more than 500 vending machines selling magnetic stripe ‘farecard’ tickets to sell and load value onto SmarTrip contactless smart cards. This forms part of WMATA’s plan to eliminate paper ticketing by early 2016. ...
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NewsCubic wins London ticketing system maintenance contract
UK: Cubic Transportation Systems has beat rival bids by LG CNS and Scheidt & Bachmann to win Transport for London’s ‘Electra’ contract to maintain its ticketing and fare collection equipment. This includes 1 900 ticket gates at London Underground and London Overground stations, 1 800 stand-alone validators including those ...
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NewsDetroit streetcar breaks ground
USA: Construction of the M-1 light rail project in Detroit officially started on July 28. The first stage of construction, due to last 120 days, includes utility relocation and drain installation along Woodward Avenue. Total construction is to last 27 months. Also known as the Woodward Avenue Streetcar, the ...
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NewsLima metro opens Line 1 extension
PERU: The third phase of Lima metro Line 1 opened at 06.00 on July 25. The 12·4 km extension runs north from Grau to Bayóvar on an elevated alignment. This adds 10 stations to Line 1, which is expected to increase its ridership to 250 000 passengers/day. Services run every ...