All Urban transport vehicles articles – Page 10
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Metro Report InternationalThree on Tyne & Wear Metro fleet replacement shortlist
UK: CAF, Hitachi Rail and Stadler have been shortlisted for the contract to design, supply and maintain a replacement fleet of 42 EMUs for the Tyne & Wear Metro, transport authority Nexus announced on June 18. Best and final offers are to be submitted this summer, with the winner to ...
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Metro Report InternationalBombardier 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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Metro Report InternationalUlan-Ude becomes launch customer for PK TS Lionet tram
RUSSIA: Sole bidder PK TS has won a contract to supply 15 trams to Ulan-Ude. The 498m rouble order is being finance mostly through a government grant via the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East. PK TS will supply its unidirectional single-section Lionet model. The 100% ...
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Metro Report InternationalBYD wins contract to supply 183 electric buses to Santiago
CHILE: BYD has won a contract to supply 183 battery electric buses to Santiago. Deliveries are due to start in August, and the buses will be operated by Metbus. The buses will have 38 seats, air-conditioning, wi-fi and USB sockets, and will have a range of 250 km. They ...
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Metro Report InternationalHyundai 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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Metro Report InternationalToshkent metro train loan agreement signed
UZBEKISTAN: Russian development bank VEB.RF and the National Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Foreign Economic Activity have signed a €28m loan agreement for the purchase of rolling stock for a metro line being built in Toshkent. In October national railway UTY signed a contract with Transmashholding subsidiary ...
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Metro Report InternationalSão Paulo airport EMU unveiled
BRAZIL: CRRC Qingdao Sifang has unveiled the first of eight eight-car Class 2500 electric multiple-units that it is supplying for São Paulo suburban operator CPTM’s Line 13 to Guarulhos Airport under a contract awarded in September 2017. The 12·2 km Line 13 was inaugurated in June 2018, and is currently ...
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Metro Report InternationalRATP to test Solaris hydrogen bus
FRANCE: RATP is to test a hydrogen fuel cell bus in passenger service next year, after signing an agreement with manufacturer Solaris at the UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2019 on June 10. RATP will test a bus over a 10-week period between April and June as part of ...
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Metro Report InternationalYutong to supply electric buses to Newport
UK: Newport Transport has ordered 15 battery electric buses from Chinese manufacturer Yutong. The order is being partly financed through a funding line from battery manufacture Zenobe Energy, and the buses will be supplied in partnership with Yutong’s UK distributor Pelican Engineering. The first of the 12 m ...
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Metro Report InternationalSiemens wins Portland light rail vehicle overhaul contract
USA: Portland transport agency TriMet has awarded Siemens Mobility a contract to undertake the mid-life overhaul of 79 SD660 light rail vehicles. Due to be completed in 2025, the €80m contract includes options worth a further €25m. Following two pilot overhauls at the Siemens Mobility West Coast Rail Services ...
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Metro Report InternationalBombardier to supply more metro trains to Delhi
INDIA: Delhi Metro Rail Corp has awarded Bombardier Transportation a contract to supply 40 Movia metro cars for use on three of its 1 676 mm gauge lines. Bombardier will supply the rolling stock from its Savli and Maneja sites in Gujarat. The trains will be equipped with Mitrac ...
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Metro Report InternationalCotton Belt railway DMU order placed
USA: Dallas Area Rapid Transit has awarded Stadler a $199m contract to supply eight Flirt diesel multiple-units for the $1·1bn Cotton Belt Regional Rail Project in the northern suburbs of Dallas. The 42 km line between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Shiloh Road in Plano is under construction for opening ...
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Metro Report InternationalDublin seeks battery-electric DART fleet
IRELAND: National railway Iarnród Éireann and the National Transport Authority have invited expressions of interest in a 10-year framework agreement covering the supply of between 250 and 600 vehicles for Dublin Area Rapid Transport suburban rail services. Expansion of DART electric services to Maynooth, Drogheda and Hazelhatch forms part of ...
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Metro Report InternationalRATP picks three manufacturers to supply up to 800 electric buses
FRANCE: RATP has awarded three framework contracts to Alstom, Heuliez Bus and Bolloré for the supply of up to 800 12 m long electric buses. Each of the orders, which are being financed by Île-de-France Mobilités, is worth up to €133m. Deliveries of the firm orders of 150 buses ...
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Metro Report InternationalImpact-absorbing tram front meets EU fire safety standards
GERMANY: Hübner has launched what it says is the first impact-absorbing material for tram front ends to meet the latest EU fire safety standard EN45545. The 3P Front End System is made from a flexible polyurethane foam with a cell structure which makes it robust but flexible. It deforms on ...
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Metro Report InternationalVancouver metro fleet renewal approved
CANADA: The oldest SkyTrain cars on Vancouver’s automated metro network are to be replaced under a C$1·47bn upgrading and enhancement package unveiled on May 23. Announced by British Columbia’s Minister of Transportation & Infrastructure Claire Trevena and federal Minister of National Defence Harjit Singh Sajjan, on behalf of Minister of ...
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Metro Report InternationalKrasnodar orders UKVZ trams
RUSSIA: Sole bidder UKVZ has been declared the winner of a 284m rouble contract to supply four six-axle three-section 70% low floor tram cars to Krasnodar city transport operator KTTU. The single-sided Type 71-631-04 vehicles will be 28 m long, with a capacity of 201 passengers at 5/m2 and two ...
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Metro Report InternationalNarrow 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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Metro Report InternationalRadom orders electric buses
POLAND: Radom’s municipal transport authority has awarded Solaris a 26m złoty contract to supply 10 Urbino 12 electric buses by mid-June 2020, along with their associated charging equipment. The buses will feature 116 kWh batteries driving two 125 kW motors. They will have a roof-mounted pantograph for fast charging at ...
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Metro Report InternationalSheriff of Nottingham unveils refurbished tram
UK: Sheriff of Nottingham Catharine Arnold has unveiled the first of Nottingham Express Transit’s 15 Bombardier Incentro trams to be refurbished in a £3·5m project. The work is being undertaken by Alstom at NET’s depot, minimising disruption by avoiding the need to move the vehicles elsewhere. The scope ...