Transit news
Three bidders shortlisted for Riyadh Metro T
HE High Commission for Riyadh Development (HCRD) says that “three major global consortia” have submitted technical and financial offers for the Riyadh Metro project, a six-line driverless network which will eventually encompass 177km and 96 stations in the city. HCRD says a global team of
80 experts will analyse the bids and present their recommendations “in the near future” to the Supreme Committee. The committee is chaired by Riyadh governor Prince Khalid bin Bandar, who is also chairman of HCRD, and will personally select the winning consortium. Trains will operate at an
average of 40km/h on the network and will be divided into first, family and single accommodation. All stations and coaches will be air- conditioned while the network will be served by four interchange and five park-and- ride stations while a central traffic control centre will handle all operations.
E&M contract awarded for Ho Chi Minh City Line 1 T
HE Peoples Committee of Ho Chi Minh City signed a contract with Hitachi on June 11 for Metro Line 1 Package 3, which covers electrical and mechanical works, trackwork, and rolling stock for the first phase of the
city’s metro network. The total value of the contract is around Yen 37bn ($US 384m) and includes the delivery of 17 three-car trains, signalling systems,
telecommunications (including wireless train radio), power
supplies, platform screen doors, automatic fare
collection, and depot facilities. Under a separate agreement, Hitachi will also provide maintenance services for five years from the start of operations in 2019.
More Chinese trains for
Buenos Aires T
HE Argentine government has announced a $US
327m order for 300 new 25kV ac emu cars from CSR, China, to replace the existing emu fleet on the General Roca 1676mm-gauge commuter lines south of Buenos Aires. The trains are due to be
Vossloh tram-trains for Sheffield - Rotherham: South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, the authority which oversees the Sheffield Supertram network, has awarded Vossloh Rail Vehicles, Spain, a contract to supply seven tram-trains. The new vehicles will operate over the existing light rail network in Sheffield and a new link to Rotherham Parkgate, which will use existing mainline railway infrastructure. The project is worth £58m, which includes the cost of the vehicles as well as electrification of the Meadowhall - Rotherham line and the construction of a new link between the existing light rail and heavy rail lines at Meadowhall. A pilot tram-train service is due to start in 2015 with a view to adopting permanent operation.
Driverless trains for Sydney North West Rail Link T
HE New South Wales government has indicated that it will adopt driverless technology for the 23km North West Rail Link (NWRL), making it the first completely driverless mass transit system in Australia.
Minister for transport Mrs Gladys Berejiklian says the requirements are set out in tender documents for the
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operations contract, with the formal request for proposals, which was due to be issued as IRJ went to press. Platform screen doors will be installed at stations, making boarding and alighting faster and safer.
At the beginning of May two consortia, Northwest Rapid Transit and TransForm, were announced as the
delivered between June and December 2014, meaning that by January 2015 only brand new trains will be in use on the Roca electrified lines. The Roca network was partially electrified at 25kV ac in the early 1980s, with 44.6km of electrified double- track from Buenos Aires’ Plaza Constitución station to both Ezeiza and Glew via Temperley. The wires were later extended by around 10km south from Glew to A Korn and work has been underway for several years to gradually electrify the Temperley - La Plata section. A fleet of emus was supplied by Toshiba in 1982-1985 and 177 of these vehicles remain in service. A small number of former Portuguese Trains (CP) emus are also in use. The new trains will increase capacity by around 50% and are also likely to be used for services on the extended network when electrification is completed.
Chengdu opens Line 2 extension
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shortlisted bidders for the Operations, Trains, and Systems (OTS) contract for the NWRL, part of which requires the design and delivery of rolling stock along with signalling and control systems. The consortia have until the end of this year to finalise their proposals and the OTS contract will be awarded in the second half of next year.
HE latest addition to the metro network in the Chinese city of Chengdu was inaugurated on June 8 with the launch of commercial services on the 8.7km western extension of Line 2 from Chandianzi Bus Station to Xipu.
The extension has six stations and the journey time between Xipu and the interchange with Line 1 at Tianfu Square in the city centre is 35 minutes.
The new Ocean Park station at the southern end of Line 1 also opened on June 8.
IRJ July 2013
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