All Urban transport business articles – Page 8
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Metro Report International
Bergen aims to be the electric bus capital of the Nordic region
NORWAY: Bergen public transport authority Skyss has awarded two contracts for the operation of the city’s bus services with electric and biogas vehicles. Keolis has operated the city’s tramway since 2020, and has now won its first bus contract in Norway. The NKr280m/year Bergen Central contract runs ...
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SFO AirTrain operating contract awarded
USA: The City & County of San Francisco has awarded Bombardier Transportation a new contract to operate and maintain the SFO AirTrain automated peoplemover at San Francisco International Airport. The contract is worth $220m over 10 years, and has an option for an additional five years. Bombardier supplied the SFO ...
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Transmashholding reveals new metro car design
RUSSIA: Transmashholding presented a mock-up of its latest metro car design at the SmartTransport trade show that took place in St Petersburg on June 19-21. The ‘Metro 2020’ bodyshell features ‘innovative and super-technological’ aerodynamic characteristics as well as wider doors and an improved cab configuration. TMH subsidiary OEVRZ ...
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Bombardier to open assembly plant in California
USA: Bombardier Transportation announced on June 14 that it is opening an assembly plant in Pittsburg, California. The first vehicles to be assembled at the new factory will be the Fleet of the Future metro cars that Bombardier is supplying for the BART network serving San Francisco. Intended to ...
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Engineering and maintenance MoU signed in Singapore
SINGAPORE: Metro operators SBS Transit and SMRT Trains signed a memorandum of understanding with ST Engineering on June 17 to share maintenance and engineering knowledge. The three-year agreement allows the parties to explore various areas for collaboration that would add depth and breadth to their maintenance and engineering expertise. ...
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Hyundai Rotem plans Polish factory as it signs Warszawa tram contract
POLAND: Hyundai Rotem has signed a contract to supply up to 213 trams to Warszawa. Operator Tramwaje Warszawskie says that the order, announced on June 12, is the largest tram contract ever signed in Poland. The base order includes 123 fully low-floor trams to be delivered by the end ...
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Hyundai Rotem to develop hydrogen fuel cell tram
SOUTH KOREA: Hyundai Rotem has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hyundai Motor’s Mabuchi Research Institute for the development of a hydrogen fuel cell tram. The agreement announced on June 10 would see Hyundai Motor, which already has hydrogen fuel cell cars and buses in its portfolio, supply fuel ...
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Mobility Innovation Partnership launched
GERMANY: The UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2019 saw the official launch of the Mobility Innovation Partnership between UITP and TechnologyRegion Karlsruhe that was concluded in April. This includes UITP’s establishment of a training centre in Karlsruhe, which will reveal its initial programmes at the summit. Firms in the ...
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Alstom focuses on ‘green, fluid, safe and inclusive’ mobility at UITP 2019
ALSTOM: Alstom will use the UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2019 to show how public transport can offer passengers a ‘fluid, secure and enjoyable travel experience’ while remaining environmentally friendly, sustainable and accessible. Visitors to the company’s stand will be able to learn about the latest developments in the ...
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RATP and Airbus to explore urban air mobility around Paris
FRANCE: Paris public transport operator RATP Group has signed a partnership with Airbus to explore the feasibility of developing ‘urban air mobility services’ in the Île-de-France region. ‘Beyond mass transport, which remains our core business, it is important for RATP Group to develop its human and technical know-how in ...
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Mobility planning software for smarter cities
UK: ‘Mobility is changing fast but transport decision-making is slow and expensive, based on poor data’, believes Robin North, co-founder and CEO of planning software company Immense Simulations. The company has just raised US$4·6m to support the development of its ‘simulation as a service’ transport modelling platform in a Series ...
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Narrow gauge tram bogie unveiled
RUSSIA: A new design of narrow gauge tram bogie was launched by PK TS at the Elektrotrans-2019 trade fair in Moscow on May 14-16. The bogie is intended for use with fully low-floor single-car or articulated light rail vehicles. It is designed for trams with narrow bodies 2 300 to ...
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Stadler inaugurates Salt Lake City factory
USA: Vehicles being built for Caltrain and TEXRail were used to re-enact the completion of the transcontinental railway at Promontory Summit 150 years before as part of celebrations marking the official inauguration of Stadler US Inc’s factory in Salt Lake City on May 9. ‘It seems fitting that as we ...
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Urban mobility a feature of FS Group’s investment plan
ITALY: State railway holding FS Group Chief Executive Gianfranco Battisti unveiled an ‘unprecedented’ spending programme on May 10, with €58bn to be invested across various modes in 2019-23. A total of €28bn is to be spent on rail infrastructure and €14bn on the strategic road network through FS Group’s ...
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Scomi Rail ordered to wind up
MALAYSIA: The High Court ordered the winding-up of monorail manufacturer Scomi Rail on May 6. The order follows Scomi Rail defaulting on debts to Maybank and Voyage Logistics International (Malaysia). The property of the Scomi Engineering subsidiary, which had a net book value of just under 507m ringgit on ...
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Railway supply industry news round-up
PKP Cargo has signed a letter of intent with Poland’s Industrial Development Agency for co-operation in setting up a wagon factory near Rzeszów. Greenbrier subsidiary Wagony Świdnica is expected to sign a letter of intent soon, allowing a fuller agreement to be signed by the end of the year. Eight ...
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CRRC launches rolling stock finance business
CHINA: CRRC and Tianjin Trust Co have launched a financial leasing subsidiary with the aim of expanding the rolling stock manufacturing group’s export activities and supporting the government’s Belt & Road Initiative. Target market sectors include urban rail vehicles, as well as high speed trainsets, high-power locomotives and wagons. CRRC ...
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Siemens Mobility submits plans for Goole rolling stock plant
UK: Siemens Mobility has submitted an outline planning application for a £200m rolling stock plant at Goole in East Yorkshire which would manufacture and commission vehicles for the UK market. This follows the signing last of November of a £1·5bn contract to supply 94 Inspiro London trainsets for London Underground’s ...
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Battery leasing credit line set up
USA: Proterra is working with Mitsui & Co to establish a US$200m credit facility to support a battery leasing programme, the electric bus manufacturer announced on April 16. Under the programme, a customer that purchases a Proterra bus can lease the batteries over the 12-year life-cycle of the vehicle. ...
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Electric bus planning joint venture formed
BUSES: Transport software company IVU Traffic Technologies and Aachen-based consultancy Ebusplan have formed a joint venture to develop software and components for battery electric buses. Based in Aachen, EBS Ebus Solutions aims to develop rostering tools tailored to the needs of electric bus fleets. The joint venture partners expect ...