Urban transport news – Page 248
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Metro Report InternationalTendering starts for Buenos Aires metro concession
ARGENTINA: Tendering for a 12-year concession to operate and maintain the Buenos Aires metro network has been launched by the city government. Due to start on January 1 2019, the new contract is being tendered by metro authority SBASE, which will be responsible for setting service levels and fares. As ...
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NewsTransilien double-deck EMUs ordered
FRANCE: SNCF has placed a firm order for a further nine Bombardier Transportation Regio 2N double-deck electric multiple-units, acting on behalf of greater Paris public transport authority Ile-de-France Mobilités. The order announced on February 19 is worth €96m, including ‘price escalations based on best faith assessment of assumptions’. The ...
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Metro Report InternationalHelsinki opens its ticket retail interface to everyone
FINLAND: Helsinki regional transport authority HSL is creating an open retail platform for single tickets intended to allow anyone in Finland or abroad to purchase single tickets for retail sale. The interface will be available at sales-api.hsl.fi. ‘We are building a highly innovative and advanced digital retail API’, explained Mari ...
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NewsAlstom to replace Paris metro Line 11 fleet
FRANCE: RATP has exercised an option for 20 five-car rubber-tyred metro trains from Alstom, the supplier announced on February 19. The €157m order is funded half by RATP and half by regional transport authority Ile-de-France Mobilités. The MP14 sets with open gangways would go into service on Line 11, ...
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NewsMetro do Porto pilots increased passenger capacity
PORTUGAL: Metro do Porto has started a three-month trial of a light rail vehicle with a remodelled interior designed to increase capacity. Growing ridership across the network, which surpassed 60 million passengers 2017, has led the operator to take steps to increase capacity. Metro do Porto says that the ...
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NewsMetrowagonmash metro trains ordered for Baku
AZERBAIJAN: Baku Metropoliten signed a contract with Metrowagonmash on February 16 for the supply of two five-car metro trainsets. Each Moskva trainset will be composed of two end trailers and three powered intermediate cars. They will have asynchronous traction motors, open gangways, air-conditioning, and bicycle and pushchair spaces. ...
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NewsTesting begins on second Izmir tram line
TURKEY: Test running has started on the Konak tram line in Izmir. The 12·9 km route was due to open late last year, but has been delayed. Services will operate with a fleet of 21 five-section low-floor trams supplied by the Eurotem joint venture of Hyundai Rotem and Tüvasaş. ...
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NewsPesa signs Gdańsk tram contract
POLAND: The city of Gdańsk and tram operator GAiT signed a contract with sole bidder Pesa on February 15 for the supply of 15 bidirectional Jazz Duo trams, with options for 15 more. The 138·4m złoty contract includes maintenance and staff training, and is 85% co-financed by the EU. ...
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NewsGebze driverless metro tender progresses
TURKEY: Kocaeli Municipality announced on February 1 that 15 consortia had prequalified for a contract to build a driverless metro line linking Gebze and Darıca. Seven of these will now move on to the next phase. Construction is planned to start by mid-2018 on the 15·7 km ...
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NewsFinal Singapore metro lines transferred to new concession model
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority announced on February 14 that it had concluded discussions with SBS Transit for implementation of the government’s New Rail Financing Framework model on the North East Line and the Sengkang and Punggol peoplemovers. This completes the 10-year transition of the island’s entire rail network to the ...
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Metro Report InternationalSiemens to provide predictive maintenance for Atlanta Streetcar
USA: Siemens has been selected as the long-term service provider for the Atlanta Streetcar. The partnership will see Siemens providing technical support and materials for all preventative and corrective maintenance of the four Avanto vehicles that it supplied for the route. Siemens will use its Railigent platform to analyse ...
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Metro Report InternationalFirst Oklahoma City streetcar arrives
USA: The first of seven trams for Oklahoma City arrived on February 13 from Brookville Equipment Co’s factory in Pennsylvania. Haulage by road was provided by Silk Road Transport. Brookville is supplying seven low-floor trams for the project, with the remaining six to be delivered at a rate of ...
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NewsTesting begins on Firenze tram line T3
ITALY: Test running on tram route T3 in Firenze began on February 12 using a Sirio tram that Hitachi Rail Italy delivered to the city on February 9. Tests are underway on the Careggi – Piazza Dalmazia section at the northern end of the route. Due to ...
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NewsPraha reintroduces 14T trams
CZECH REPUBLIC: The first series-modernised Škoda 14T tram is about to enter service in Praha, following the successful testing of a prototype. City transport operator DP Praha plans to have 14 more modernised trams in service by the end of the year, with all 57 to be modernised by 2020. ...
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Metro Report InternationalCRRC unveils new-generation monorail train
CHINA: CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co presented its ‘new generation’ straddle monorail vehicle for low- and medium-capacity routes on February 1. CRRC Changchun has drawn on its experience of supplying 770 monorail sets since 2004. The manufacturer says that the use of carbon fibre composite for some components makes ...
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Metro Report InternationalSingapore metro upgrade contracts awarded
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority has awarded three contracts for the upgrade of power supply and track circuits on the North-South and East-West metro lines. Meiden Singapore has won two contracts totalling S$500m to upgrade the power supply, and a separate S$73m contract has gone to a consortium of Siemens ...
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NewsElectric buses enter service in Bettembourg
LUXEMBOURG: Voyages Emile Weber subsidiary Autocars Pletschette put seven electric buses into service in Bettembourg on February 8. They are in service on the 13 km, 23-stop Line 305, which becomes the country’s first bus route to use only battery buses. VDL has supplied the fleet of Citeas LLE-99 ...
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Metro Report InternationalSydney metro train on test
AUSTRALIA: Dynamic testing of the first Sydney metro train has started on the elevated section of the city’s future metro line. Alstom delivered the first of 22 trainsets to the Rouse Hill depot on September 26. Testing is initially taking place in that area, before being expanded to the ...
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NewsSingapore – Malaysia metro joint venture
ASIA: Malaysia’s Prasarana and Singapore’s SMRT have accepted a Letter of Offer jointly issued by Malaysia’s Prime Minister’s Department and Singapore’s Land Transport Authority for the two companies to form a joint venture to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the Johor Bahru – Singapore Rapid Transit System Link cross-border ...
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Metro Report InternationalAlstom and SNC-Lavalin to build Montréal’s automated metro
CANADA: CDPQ Infra announced the winning bidders for the construction and operation of the Réseau Électrique Métropolitain automated metro project in Montréal on February 8. Construction is due to start in April, with testing to start at the end of 2020 and passenger services on the first branch beginning ...