All Urban transport vehicles articles – Page 31
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Metro Report InternationalTriMet orders electric buses for Portland
USA: Portland transport agency TriMet has awarded New Flyer of America a contract to supply five battery buses, the manufacturer announced on September 28. The order is being partly financed through a Federal Transit Administration grant. New Flyer will supply its 12 m Xcelsior model, under a contract that ...
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NewsEdinburgh welcomes electric buses
UK: Edinburgh bus operator Lothian Buses will put its first electric buses into service on October 1. The six buses will operate on the Service 1 route, which runs through Edinburgh’s central air quality management area. Lothian Buses ordered six Street Air buses from Wrightbus for £2·7m. These are ...
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NewsStuttgart to order more light rail and rack railway vehicles
GERMANY: The board of Stuttgart transport operator Stuttgarter Strassenbahnen has agreed to exercise an option for 20 more S-DT8.12 light rail vehicles, valued at around €80m. SSB placed an initial order for 20 LRVs from Stadler Pankow in early 2010, the first of which entered service in late 2013. ...
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Metro Report InternationalElectric buses ordered for Minneapolis
USA: New Flyer of America is to supply 18 m long articulated electric buses to Twin Cities operator Metro Transit for use on the C Line rapid bus route, which is due to open in 2019. To be assembled at New Flyer’s factory in St Cloud, Minnesota, the Xcelsior ...
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NewsElectric buses ordered for Stalowa Wola
POLAND: Solaris Bus & Coach is to supply 10 Urbino 8,9 LE electric buses to Stalowa Wola. The city has placed the order alongside a contract for nine diesel buses. Due to be delivered in early 2018, the buses will each be powered by four batteries feeding a 160 ...
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NewsŠkoda to supply electric buses to České Budějovice
CZECH REPUBLIC: Škoda Electric is to supply 11 electric buses to České Budějovice, the manufacturer announced on September 26. The 9 m long buses will serve two routes connecting park-and-ride sites to the city centre. The batteries will be charged using a pantograph through the city’s existing trolleybus catenary.
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NewsSolaris to supply trolleybuses to Vilnius
LITHUANIA: Solaris Bus & Coach was the sole bidder for a contract to supply 41 low-floor Trollino trolleybuses to Vilnius. The contract is expected to be signed in the next few weeks. Solaris placed a bid of €19·2m, which is being partly funded through Vilnius municipality, with the EU ...
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Metro Report InternationalGorzów Wielkopolski tram network expansion and fleet replacement
POLAND: On October 1 services on the entire tram network in Gorzów Wielkopolski will be suspended for around a year for modernisation and extension, ahead of entry into service of an entire new fleet. Under a 225m złoty project, the city is modernising track on 11 route-km of its ...
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Metro Report InternationalSydney Metro’s first trainset arrives
AUSTRALIA: Sydney Metro announced the delivery of its first trainset to the Rouse Hill depot on September 26. Alstom is supplying 22 six-car Metropolis driverless trainsets, together with Urbalis 400 communications-based train control, Iconis control systems and Smartlock 400 computer-based interlocking under a €280m contract awarded in September 2014. ...
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NewsTrondheim orders Volvo electric buses
NORWAY: Volvo has received what it says is its largest ever order for fully electric buses. It will supply 25 of its 7900 Electric battery buses to Tide Buss in Trondheim. The buses are due to enter service on four routes in in August 2019. Volvo will maintain the ...
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Metro Report InternationalBallard to supply hydrogen fuel cells to Pau buses
FRANCE: Ballard Power Systems has signed a letter of intent with Van Hool to provide hydrogen fuel cells for eight buses that Van Hool is supplying to operate a BRT route in Pau. Due to be delivered in the second half of 2019, the 18 m buses with capacity ...
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Metro Report InternationalChengdu metro traction equipment contract awarded
CHINA: Chengdu Metro Corp has awarded Alstom a €57m contract to supply traction equipment for 62 eight-car trainsets for Line 5, which is due to open by the end of 2019. Optonix traction equipment will be supplied by Alstom’s joint ventures Shanghai Alstom Transport Electrical Equipment Co and Chengdu ...
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Metro Report InternationalSiemens to supply trains for Bangkok Blue Line extension
THAILAND: Bangkok Expressway & Metro and CH Karnchang have selected a consortium of Siemens and ST Electronics to supply railway systems for the Blue Line extension of the Bangkok metro. Siemens is to supply rolling stock, signalling, power supplies and depot equipment, and will maintain the extension for 10 ...
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NewsSheffield tram-train enters service
UK: The first of seven Class 399 Citylink vehicles being supplied for the Sheffield – Rotherham tram train project was launched into passenger service with a special run between Nunnery depot and Meadowhall on September 14. Invited guests included Transport Minister Paul Maynard and the CEO of Stadler Rail Valencia ...
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NewsWien Line U6 cars refurbished
AUSTRIA: Kiepe Electric and IFE are refurbishing 78 Bombardier Type T low-floor vehicles in service on Wien line U6. The project is intended to ensure another 20 years of operational service for the cars, which date from 1993-99. The scope includes replacing the control system and tachograph, and installing air-cooled ...
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CRRC Changchun signs Tel Aviv fleet maintenance contract
ISRAEL: A 16-year contract for CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles to maintain the fleet of vehicles that it is supplying for the Tel Aviv light metro Red Line was signed on September 12, by NTA Chief Executive Officer Yehuda Bar-On and CRRC Changchun Vice President Zhou Chuanhe. The signing took place ...
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Metro Report InternationalFTA launches clearing house to support joint vehicle procurement
USA: The Federal Transit Administration has launched a Joint Procurement Clearinghouse where transport agencies can share information about their rail vehicle, bus and ferry requirements. A requirement of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, the clearing house is intended to help agencies find partners who are interested in pooling resources ...
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NewsIzmir extension opens as Marmaray trainset tested
TURKEY: Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım opened a 17 km extension of Izmir’s Southern Line from Tepeköy to Selçuk on September 8. The extension cost TL300m, of which 70% was covered by the national budget, and makes use of a railway alignment originally opened in the 1860s. There is one ...
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NewsPotsdam receives lengthened tram
GERMANY: The first of eight Combino trams that Siemens is lengthening for ViP Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam returned to the city on September 7. Work started earlier this year on a €50m project to lengthen eight of the five-section trams to 42 m. Siemens is producing two intermediate sections, 3 m ...
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Metro Report InternationalCRRC to supply commuter EMUs to São Paulo
BRAZIL: São Paulo suburban operator CPTM signed a contract on September 1 for CRRC Sifang to supply eight eight-car electric multiple-units for use on the future Line 13. Deliveries are due to begin in 2019. To be based on CRRC’s Type A metro train design, each 1 600 mm ...