All articles by Metro Report International – Page 6
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Metro Report InternationalSalvador seeks tram network to replace aborted monorail scheme
BRAZIL: The state government of Bahia has approved the call of tenders for the construction of a three-line light rail network in Salvador totalling 36 km at an estimated cost of R$3·6bn. The first 16·6 km line would link Calçada in the centre of the conurbation ...
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Metro Report Internationalİzmir opens third tram line
TURKEY: A 12 km long tram extension opened in İzmir’s Çiğli district on January 27 with a ceremony attended by Mayor Tunç Soyer. Services run in both directions around the ring, meeting at the northern terminus at Katip Çelebi Üniversitesi. The Çiğli tramway serves 14 stops ...
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Metro Report InternationalNew York’s first walk-through Subway trainset enters service
USA: The first R211T open gangway trainsets being supplied by Kawasaki Rail Car for the New York Subway entered service on February 1 on the C/Eighth Avenue Local Line linking Washington Heights and East New York. New York state Governor Kathy Hochul, Metropolitan ...
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Metro Report InternationalFuture Mobility Taskforce launched
EUROPE: Private transport technology companies have formed a Future Mobility Taskforce which aims to inform EU policymakers about innovation and start-ups in the sector. The taskforce was launched when 16 CEOs and founders met Commissioner for Transport Adina Vălean in Brussels during January. Train and coach ...
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Metro Report InternationalNew Jersey Transit pilots track monitoring ‘force multiplier’
Mock dashboard USA: Humatics has been awarded a 12-month contract to pilot its Focus track condition monitoring technology on the New Jersey Transit network. This will expand current trials from an initial 16 track-km of monitored track to more than 160 km. ...
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Metro Report InternationalHosur – Bommasandra metro study commissioned
INDIA: A feasibility study has been commissioned for a metro line connecting Hosur in Tamil Nadu with Bommasandra, southeast of Bengaluru in Karnataka. Bommasandra is the future terminus of Bengaluru’s Namma Metro Yellow Line, which is under construction with opening now expected this year. The proposed ...
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Metro Report InternationalOrbital tunnels in Zürich’s tram network expansion strategy
SWITZERLAND: ‘We have to invest today in the mobility of tomorrow’, Zürich councillor Michael Baumer said when city transport operator VBZ presented a network expansion strategy which includes plans to increase the number of passengers by 40% by 2040. Baumer said major investments in the tram ...
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Metro Report InternationalBern trams donated to Lviv
UKRAINE: Agreement has been reached for the Swiss city of Bern to donate 11 trams to the city of Lviv, where Switzerland will also support the construction of a 1 km tram route along Mykolaichuka and Shevchenko streets to the emergency hospital.
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Metro Report InternationalTokyo Metro privatisation could begin this year
JAPAN: Tokyo Metropolitan Government is likely to begin selling off its shares in Tokyo Metro in the 2024 financial year, Governor Yuriko Koike said on January 26. The current Tokyo Metro company was founded on April 1 2004 as part of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s policy ...
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Metro Report InternationalUrban transport industry news round-up
This week’s round-up of news from the urban transport sector.
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Metro Report InternationalExtension takes Phoenix light rail over the freeway
USA: ‘We have made the leap over one of our busiest and most vital freeways with a bridge that opens the door to the West Valley’, said CEO of Phoenix’s Valley Metro Jessica Mefford-Miller when celebrations marked the opening of the Northwest Phase II light rail extension on January 27.
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Metro Report InternationalSheffield Supertram refurbishment planned
UK: South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority is seeking market feedback to help it draw up plans to extend the lives of the original Supertram fleet. SYMCA says the 25 Siemens–Düwag trams built for the opening of the Sheffield light rail network in 1994 are suffering from ...
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Metro Report InternationalSustainable design integrated into metro construction
CHINA: MTR Corp is working with Hong Kong University of Science & Technology to develop software to quantify the embodied carbon of rail projects and assist with the adoption of low-carbon construction. The Hong Kong transport operator has also obtained BEAM Plus Provisional Gold or above ...
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Metro Report InternationalGrand Paris Express Line 15 East contract awarded
FRANCE: Automated metro project promoter Société du Grand Paris has awarded a €2·54bn contract for the design and construction of the eastern segment of Grand Paris Express Line 15. The winning COREA consortium is led by Eiffage Génie Civil, and also includes design studios Architecturestudio, Ar Theme ...
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Metro Report InternationalRebuilt depot ready to revolutionise Tyne & Wear Metro maintenance
UK: VolkerFitzpatrick has completed a £70m project to rebuild Gosforth depot where Stadler will maintain the 46 light metro trainsets it is supplying to renew the Tyne & Wear Metro fleet. The depot has been rebuilt ‘to a very high standard, with quality and precision at ...
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Metro Report InternationalSecond busiest Paris metro line goes fully automatic
FRANCE: Paris metro Line 4 has been fully converted to Grade of Automation 4 unattended operation
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Metro Report InternationalConnecting Stockholm wins metro operating contract
SWEDEN: Local authority Region Stockholm has selected the Connecting Stockholm joint venture of The Go-Ahead Group (55%) and ComfortDelGro (45%) to operate and maintain the Tunnelbana metro network. The preferred bidder was announced on January 23, with formal award subject to a standstill period. Go-Ahead CEO Patrick ...
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Metro Report InternationalUrban transport industry news round-up
This week’s round-up of news from the urban transport sector.
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Metro Report InternationalDubai considers elevated pod platoons
UAE: Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority has signed a memorandum of understanding to work with Urban.MASS on an operational pilot of its Floc Duo Rail concept for platoons of driverless electric pods running on an elevated track. Urban.MASS is now seeking funding for development and deployment ...
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Metro Report InternationalBLT begins testing Tina trams
SWITZERLAND: Baselland tram operator BLT has begun testing the first of 25 Tina trams being supplied by Stadler. BLT was the first Swiss customer for the Tina (Total Integrierter Niederflur-Antrieb or total integrated low-floor drive) design, placing a SFr125m order in November 2021. The first of ...