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NewsMetro do Porto changes operator
PORTUGAL: Barraqueiro Group began operating and maintaining the Metro do Porto light rail network last month under a €204·3m seven-year sub-concession contract. The network is now operated by a single company rather than a consortium for the first time. Barraqueiro previously led the ViaPORTO consortium with Arriva, Keolis and ...
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NewsNovosibirsk suburban rail services planned
RUSSIA: Russian Railways, Novosibirsk oblast and the Novosibirsk city authorities are developing plans for suburban railway services. This would mostly use existing infrastructure, with station modernisation taking place as part of the project. The initial section is expected to cost 584m roubles. Services would use the Trans-Siberian main line ...
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NewsSingapore’s Jurong Region Line alignment finalised
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority published the alignment of the Jurong Region Line on May 9. Planned to open in phases between 2026 and 2028, the 24 km elevated line with 24 stations will become the seventh metro line in Singapore. Originally included in the Land Transport Master Plan 2013, ...
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NewsMTR to bring rail and property development model to Europe
EUROPE: Hong Kong’s MTR Corp has appointed chartered surveyor John Robinson as Head of Property for its European Business, with the aim of bringing to Europe the Rail+Property development model which it has successfully used in China. Property developments at 39 stations in Hong Kong provide 100 000 residential ...
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NewsMashhad metro lines connected
IRAN: The two hitherto isolated metro lines in Mashhad were connected on May 7 when President Hassan Rouhani opened an extension of Line 2. The 2 km extension runs southwest from Shohada to Shariati, where interchange is provided with Line 1. The first phase of Line 2 ...
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Metro Report InternationalOld Oak Common Elizabeth Line depot opens
UK: The Elizabeth Line’s Old Oak Common depot in west London has started operations, Transport for London announced on May 10. The purpose-built facility occupies the site of a former freight locomotive depot. Construction took four years and was undertaken by Taylor Woodrow. The new depot will be used ...
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NewsÖskemen tram services to restart using ex-Almaty vehicles
KAZAKHSTAN: The first five of 13 used KT4Dt trams bought from Almaty for 118·5m tenge have arrived in Öskemen. The trams were built in 1983-85 and originally operated in Berlin, before being acquired by Almaty in 2013. They have been out of use since that city’s tram network closed at ...
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Metro Report InternationalDublin MetroLink designers appointed
IRELAND: A consortium of Jacobs Engineering Group and Idom has been selected by Transport Infrastructure Ireland to assist with development of the Dublin MetroLink north-south metro line, under a contract announced on May 9. Working with TII and the National Transport Authority, the consortium will take the scheme through the ...
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NewsMoscow orders 200 battery buses
RUSSIA: Moscow bus operator Mosgortrans has selected two manufacturers to supply a total of 200 electric buses and charging infrastructure. KAMAZ and GAZ are each to supply 100 low-floor battery buses. Each of the 6·35bn rouble orders include 15 years of maintenance, as well as the installation and maintenance ...
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NewsSétif tramway inaugurated
ALGERIA: The first phase of the Sétif tram network was inaugurated on May 8. The 15·2 km east-west route runs from 11 Décembre 1960 to Berchi Abid and Oucissa Laid, which both serve Université El Bez. In March 2014 Entreprise Métro d’Alger awarded a consortium of Yapı Merkezi and ...
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NewsVDL wins Oslo electric bus order
NORWAY: Greater Oslo bus operator Unibuss placed an order for 40 electric buses from VDL Bus & Coach on May 8. Unibuss has ordered 30 Citeas SLFA-180 Electric buses, which have a 169 kWh battery pack, to operate on routes 20, 21, 28, 34, 37 and 54. A further ...
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Metro Report InternationalMobile ticketing arrives in Portland
USA: Mobile ticketing was introduced to the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area on May 2 with the launch of an Android app. The Virtual Hop Card uses Google Pay. Passengers can tap their smartphones on fare validators when they use bus, light rail and commuter rail services operated by TriMet, C-TRAN ...
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NewsPeoplemover opens at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport
RUSSIA: An automated peoplemover opened at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on May 3. The 2 km cable-driven peoplemover links the newly opened Terminal B with terminals D, E and F on an underground alignment. Doppelmayr built the US$243m peoplemover and is providing 15 years of operations and maintenance under ...
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NewsFrance – Germany tram-train to be studied
EUROPE: A Franco-German feasibility study is to look at the possibility of using around 40 route-km of freight-only and disused railway lines to introduce a regional rail or tram-train style service linking Rastatt in Baden-Württemberg with Haganeu in Alsace. This would make use of an existing road-rail bridge over ...
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Metro Report InternationalPSI to supply Berlin U-Bahn software
GERMANY: Berlin transport operator BVG has commissioned PSI Transcom to supply its PSItraffic software to support the management of operations on the metro network. PSI said the system would control and monitor ‘the largest contiguous public transport network of this kind in Germany’, managing the U-Bahn and around 1 200 ...
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Metro Report InternationalPanamá metro depot equipment delivery
PANAMA: Depot equipment specialist Mechan is preparing to ship its first order for the the Americas, comprising 20 lifting jacks of 12 tonne capacity, four turntables and 40 vehicle stands for the depot which is being built in the Nuevo Tocumen area of Panamá City as part of the metro ...
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Metro Report InternationalOttawa light rail project receives more provincial funding
CANADA: Ontario’s Minister of Infrastructure Bob Chiarelli announced on May 3 that the province is to contribute up to C$50m towards the construction of a 3·4 km extension of Ottawa’s Trillium Line to Limebank Road. The southern extension, which includes a branch to Macdonald-Cartier International Airport, is part of ...
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NewsSecond airport rail link opens in Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA: A rail link to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Kuala Lumpur was inaugurated on May 1. The Ministry of Transport funded the 521m ringgit project. The route branches off from the metre-gauge line that links Kuala Lumpur with Port Klang at Subang Jaya. It runs north along ...
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NewsGrand Paris selects supplier for up to 1 000 driverless train cars
FRANCE: Alstom has been selected as preferred bidder to supply up to 1 000 large-profile metro cars to operate three lines of the automated Grand Paris Express network, project promoter Société du Grand Paris announced on May 2. As part of its 2010 mandate to deliver the infrastructure for ...
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NewsDortmund orders 24 light rail vehicles
GERMANY: Dortmund public transport authority DSW21 has awarded a €195m contract to a consortium of HeiterBlick and Kiepe Electric to supply 24 light rail vehicles and modernise 64 from the existing fleet. The first of the new high-floor bidirectional two-section LRVs is due to be delivered in 2020 and ...
