Trams feature a low floor to provide easy access for persons with reduced mobility, air conditioning, video surveillance, visual information displays and spoken announcements.
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Alstom's catenary-free technology offers safety for pedestrians and road users as power delivery only occurs once the conducting segment of the track is covered by the tram. Its design also allows for the preservation of urban environments and unique historic heritage of communities where it is implemented.
Read More →Presentation of the first train is scheduled for December 2010.
Read More →Alstom Transport will support the modernization of the manufacturing sites of Transmashholding and the development of a new generation of rolling stock adapted to the Russian market.
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Total contract value approximately $176 million, with shares of around 50 percent for each partner.
Read More →The new Coradia Nordic EMUs (Electric Multiple Unit) have four articulated cars and can reach approximately 112 miles per hour. The trainsets will be designed and assembled at Alstom’s Salzgitter site in Germany while the ONIX traction system will be constructed at the site in Tarbes, France. They will be delivered by autumn 2010.
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Test runs are to be performed on a 106-mile section of France's Eastern high-speed line between the Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine stations.
Read More →With this order, the MTA is taking up the second option on a contract originally awarded to Alstom and Kawasaki in 2002. Alstom’s share of the latest order represents approximately $491 million and covers the production of 242 metro cars.
Read More →Pierre L. Gauthier has been appointed president and CEO of Alstom U.S. and will be based in the new Washington headquarters, along with a senior executive team.
Read More →The contract has an order value of about $208.5 million (USD) in total, with the first trains going into commercial service in late 2010.
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