All Urban transport vehicles articles – Page 4
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Metro Report InternationalAlstom to supply 20 trams to Angers
FRANCE: Angers Loire Metropole has ordered 20 Citadis trams from Alstom to operate on the second route of the city’s tram network, which is due to open in the early 2020s. The order announced on December 10 is worth €55m. Deliveries are due to be completed by ...
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Metro Report InternationalHannover LRVs to be fitted with collision detection technology
GERMANY: Hannover transport operator Üstra has awarded Kiepe Electric a contract to equip 50 light rail vehicles with collision detection systems. Following a successful trial with a TW3000 vehicle, 50 more are to be retrofitted next year. Bosch Engineering will provide the technology. Radar and camera sensors ...
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NewsLocal content emphasised as Alstom awarded Perth train contract
AUSTRALIA: Public Transport Authority of Western Australia has formally signed the A$1·3bn contract for Alstom to supply and maintain diesel and electric multiple-units for use around Perth. Announcing completion of the deal on December 10, PTA said the biggest rolling stock contract that it had placed had ...
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Metro Report InternationalBYD to supply 259 electric buses to Keolis Nederland
NETHERLANDS: Keolis Nederland has ordered 259 electric buses from BYD. The Shenzhen-based supplier said that the contract signed on December 6 is its largest single order for electric buses in Europe. Deliveries are due to begin in mid-2020 for entry into service at the end of that ...
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Metro Report InternationalKeolis orders battery buses and trolleybuses for Bergen
NORWAY: Keolis Norge has ordered 88 battery buses and 10 battery trolleybuses for use in Bergen under two contracts announced on December 2. Yutong Eurobus Scandinavian is to supply 88 E12 electric buses next year. A pre-production prototype is due to be delivered next month. The 12 ...
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Metro Report InternationalRio suburban trains slowly return to service after traction fault
Photo: Benjámin Zelki BRAZIL: Six more electric multiple-units returned to service on the SuperVia suburban rail network serving Rio de Janeiro on December 2, after being taken out of service in November because of traction equipment faults. SuperVia withdrew 40 of its CRRC-built EMUs from service on ...
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Metro Report InternationalFoshan welcomes hydrogen fuel cell tram
CHINA: A hydrogen fuel cell tram has started test running on the Gaoming Line in Foshan, ahead of opening of the city’s first tram route later this month. The 17·4 km Gaoming Line on the west bank of the Xijiang River is intended to serve 20 stops ...
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Metro Report InternationalAlstom-Bombardier consortium to supply up to 410 metro trains to Paris
FRANCE: Île-de-France Mobilités and RATP have selected a 50:50 consortium of Alstom and Bombardier to supply up to 410 trainsets to operate on the Paris metro. The contract announced on November 29 includes a base order worth €530m for 30 five-car walkthrough trainsets 76 m long for ...
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Metro Report InternationalAlstom wins Utrecht tram maintenance contract
NETHERLANDS: The Province of Utrecht signed a contract with Alstom on November 28 for the maintenance of the entire sneltram fleet. The contract runs for four years and has two options to extend the length by three and two years. It covers the existing fleet of high-floor ...
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Metro Report InternationalABB targets battery traction applications
Traction equipment supplier ABB has inaugurated a battery production facility in Switzerland to support decarbonisation initiatives. Hans Weigum reports from Baden.
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Metro Report InternationalPesa Swing tram presented to Sofia
BULGARIA: Pesa presented the first of 13 trams that it supplying under a contract placed earlier this year to Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandukova on November 28, a day ahead of its entry into passenger service on Route 18. The low-floor trams from Pesa’s Swing family are 30 ...
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Metro Report InternationalBattery buses enter passenger service in Poznań
POLAND: The first of 21 electric buses that MPK Poznań ordered from Solaris in December entered regular passenger service on route 174 on November 27. Deliveries are scheduled to be completed in February of the 15 Urbino 18 articulated vehicles and six Urbino 12 buses. The buses ...
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Metro Report InternationalPorto eyes Chinese trams as ridership grows
PORTUGAL: Metro do Porto has reportedly selected CRRC Tangshan as preferred bidder to supply and maintain a batch of 18 low-floor light rail vehicles as part of a network expansion project approved earlier this year.
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Metro Report InternationalBrisbane Metro BRT vehicle supplier selected
AUSTRALIA: Brisbane City Council has selected Hess, Volgren and ABB to supply 60 electric buses and charging infrastructure for the Brisbane Metro bus rapid transit project. A prototype is due to be delivered next year, ahead testing and series production. Final assembly will take place at Volgren’s ...
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Metro Report InternationalAlstom wins contract to automate Marseille metro
FRANCE: Alstom is to supply trains and signalling for the conversion of the Marseille metro to fully driverless operation, the manufacturer announced on November 26. The €430m contract, financed by local authority Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence, will see both lines of the city’s rubber-tyred metro move to driverless operation ...
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Metro Report InternationalFirst tram arrives for Paris T9
FRANCE: The first of 22 trams that Alstom is supplying to operate route T9 in Paris arrived in Orly on November 22, four days after leaving Alstom’s La Rochelle factory. Ile-de-France regional transport authority STIF awarded Alstom a contract in 2016 that includes options for up to 68 additional trams ...
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Metro Report InternationalSydney metro second phase E&M contract awarded
AUSTRALIA: Sydney Metro has exercised an option on the Northwest Rapid Transit consortium’s Operations, Trains & Systems concession to cover the line’s second phase. In 2014 the consortium of MTR Corp, John Holland, CPB Contractors, UGL Rail and Plenary Group was awarded a PPP concession covering the ...
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Metro Report InternationalModertrans to supply 30 trams to Łódź
POLAND: Modertrans is to supply 30 low-floor trams to operate on the metre-gauge network in Łódź. Deliveries under the 268m złoty contract are due by the end of September 2022. The Poznań-based supplied beat bids from Stadler, Pesa and Bozankaya. The rolling stock has been ordered as ...
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Metro Report InternationalPaks opts for Solaris buses
HUNGARY: Solaris Bus & Coach is to supply 10 battery electric buses to Paks, the Polish manufacturer announced on November 19. The vehicles and five chargers are due to be delivered within 11 months of signing the €4·7m contract. Six of the buses would be the 12 ...
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Metro Report InternationalBYD to supply 379 electric buses to Bogotá
COLOMBIA: Bogotá transport authority TransMilenio has ordered 379 electric buses from BYD, the Chinese supplier announced on November 15. The first vehicles from what BYD says is its largest order for the Latin American market would be delivered in mid-2020, and would enter revenue service in September. ...