BRAZIL: Strukton Rolling Stock is to supply traction inverters, auxiliary inverters and battery chargers for the vehicles to be used on São Paulo metro Line 17.
The monorail is being built by a consortium of Grupo MPE, Andrade Gutierrez, CR Almeida and Scomi Rail, which is providing rolling stock. It will be operated by Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo. The first 14 vehicles are to be delivered in the first half of 2014. The 22 km line is due to open later that year.
BRAZIL: The Move São Paulo consortium of Odebrecht Transport, Queiroz Galvão, UTC Participações and Eco Realty-Fundo de Investimento em Participações has been selected to build and operate São Paulo metro Line 6. Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo restarted the tender for the concession in April after the original ...
BRAZIL: Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo restarted the tender for the 25-year PPP concession to build and operate metro Line 6 during April. The new bid submission date is July 30, and the value is unchanged at R$7·8bn. The original tender from January had to be cancelled because of ...
USA: Automatic train operation has resumed on the Washington DC metro after a 15 year gap. ATO was installed when the metro opened in 1976, but it was turned off following a fatal collision in June 2009. This was caused by a track circuit failure that ...
