AZERBAIJAN: A consortium headed by Systra and including Mott MacDonald's Praha office and Saman of Korea has been selected to draw up plans for the expansion of the Baku metro by a further 60 km with 50 stations.
A study will be undertaken to identify the needs of public transport users and develop a traffic forecasting model. This will be followed by preliminary design works for proposed extensions to the two existing metro lines and the creation of two new lines.
USA: The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority board has approved a $724·3m contract for Hitachi Rail to supply 200 metro cars to replace the current fleet on Philadelphia’s Market-Frankford Line. A pilot vehicle is to be delivered from Hitachi’s new factory at Hagerstown in Maryland in autumn ...
SPAIN: Metro de Bilbao has announced a €736m plan to increase capacity by 12% by upgrading its metre-gauge network and replacing its oldest vehicles. Communications-based train control is to be installed at an estimated cost of €130m. This would enable headways to be reduced and provide ...
THAILAND: The government has approved a 13·4 km extension of Bangkok Orange Line west across the city centre, awarding Blue and Purple line operator Bangkok Expressway & Metro a 140bn baht 30-year public-private partnership contract for construction and operation on July 18. The tunnelled extension will ...
