Urban transport news from Europe – Page 9
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Metro Report InternationalLondon Underground seeks new ways to mind the gap
UK: Transport for London is looking for innovative approaches to managing safety at the platform-train interface, where there is a risk of people or objects falling onto the track. TfL is seeking to eliminate or reduce the risk of falls on the track and between the ...
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Metro Report InternationalNew trains and CBTC to increase Bilbao metro capacity
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalMadrid metro Line 6 to go driverless
SPAIN: Metro de Madrid has announced more details of its plans for the automation of the 23·5 km, 28-station circular Line 6, which is the busiest on the network with an average of 618 000 passengers on weekdays. Work on the €129m project is scheduled to ...
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Metro Report InternationalDriverless tram operation demonstrated in depot
FINLAND: The driverless movement of a tram around the Tampere tramway’s depot has been demonstrated, with Škoda Group saying its ’marks a significant step towards full autonomy’. The Škoda ForCity Smart Artic X34 tram was set tasks remotely. It then moved around the depot ...
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Metro Report InternationalArt and architecture mark Napoli metro Line 6’s return
ITALY: Napoli metro Line 6 reopened on July 17, 11 years after services were suspended. The original 2·3 km line west from Mergellina to Mostra has been extended in tunnel 3·1 km towards the city centre at Municipio, where there is interchange with Line 1. The ...
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Metro Report InternationalDriverless tram scheduled to carry first passengers in September
RUSSIA: Moskva’s first driverless tram is to begin carrying passengers in September, the city’s Department of Transport has announced. On July 15 operator Moskva Metro reported that the tram was currently on test without passengers on Route 10, adding that it had already covered 400 km ...
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Metro Report InternationalBozankaya wins Beograd tram tender
SERBIA: On July 11 Beograd city transport operator GSP named Turkish supplier Bozankaya as the winner of a 7·8bn dinar contract to supply 25 trams. The first is to be delivered in 12 months, and the rest within the following 13 months. GSP has specified five-section, ...
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Metro Report InternationalTyne & Wear Metro SCADA contract awarded
UK: Tyne & Wear Metro operator Nexus has selected Sella Controls to undertake a £8·8m two-year project to replace the Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition System which is used to manage the network’s high and low voltage power supplies, fire and intruder alarms, lighting, lifts, escalators ...
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Metro Report InternationalMultimodal opportunities as Luxembourg tramway extension opens
LUXEMBOURG: The 3·7 km five-stop Phase D extension of the city of Luxembourg’s tramway south from Lycée Bouneweg to Stadion was opened by Mayor Lydie Polfer on July 7. The new terminus provides an interchange with bus services, and a park-and-ride facility is to open in ...
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Metro Report InternationalMazyr to take delivery of first trams since 1988
BELARUS: The Mazyr tramway which is owned and operated by the oil refinery which it serves is about to take delivery of its first new trams since the 20 km line opened in 1988. In autumn 2024, BKM was awarded a contract to supply 10 Type ...
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Metro Report InternationalRebodied tram unveiled
RUSSIA: The BKM-Siberia joint venture of Belarussian manufacturer Belkommunmash and the city of Novosibirsk unveiled its first rebodied partially low-floor Type T701 tram at the Siberian Transport Forum trade fair which was held in the city during June. The cost of rebodying a tram is put ...
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Metro Report InternationalToruń tram framework contract awarded
POLAND: Pesa Bydgoszcz has beaten Turkish company Bozankaya to win a framework contract to supply MZK Toruń with up to 20 low-floor unidirectional trams. A firm order for an initial four trams is planned, with follow-on orders to be placed over 48 months subject to EU ...
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Metro Report InternationalCAF sole bidder to supply Bologna trams
ITALY: CAF is the sole bidder for the tram tender in Bologna, the city council announced on June 25. The municipality is currently evaluating the offer and it still hopes to sign a contract by the end of the summer. Bologna municipality has called tenders worth ...
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Metro Report InternationalParis metro Line 14 extended north and south
FRANCE: The length of Paris’ driverless metro Line 14 was more than doubled on June 24, when President Emmanuel Macron joined transport authority Ile-de-France-Mobilités and operator RATP to inaugurate northern and southern extensions
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Metro Report InternationalKing inaugurates København M4 extension
DENMARK: The southern extension of København’s automated metro Line M4 serving the Sydhavn and Ny Ellebjerg districts was formally inaugurated by King Frederik X on June 22.
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Metro Report InternationalParis metro and light rail operating contracts awarded
FRANCE: Paris transport authority Ile-de-France-Mobilités has awarded Keolis and RATP Cap Ile-de-France contracts to operate the future Grand Paris Express metro Line 18 and existing tram-train services T12 and T13. The 35 km fully automated Line 18 is to open in three phases, from Massy to CEA-St-Aubin ...
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Metro Report InternationalCluj-Napoca breaks ground for first metro line
ROMANIA: Construction of Cluj-Napoca metro Line 1 was launched with a groundbreaking ceremony on June 5, attended by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, Minister of Transport & Infrastructure Sorin Grindeanu and Mayor Emil Boc. The country’s first driverless metro will run over a 21 km route with ...
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Metro Report International‘Extremely exacting’ Madrid metro train order signed
SPAIN: Metro de Madrid has signed a contract for sole bidder CAF to supply 40 six-car trainsets to operate on large-profile lines 6 and 8. The €400m deal announced by CAF on June 17 includes a programme to optimise the fleet’s life cycle, and there is ...
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Metro Report InternationalParis opening doubles length of metro Line 11
FRANCE: The length of the Paris metro’s rubber-tyred Line 11 is almost doubled with the opening of a 6 km six-station extension from Mairie-des-Lilas to Rosny-Bois-Perrier.
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Metro Report InternationalVirtual reality tramway safety training tool launched
UK: A virtual reality tool designed to provide hazard awareness training for people who will be working on or near tram tracks has been developed by the Light Rail Safety & Standards Board in partnership with tram simulator specialist Avansim and industry association UKTram. The Virtual ...