The contract will expand PTV’s fleet to 101 trains (606 cars) delivered from Alstom’s manufacturing facility in Ballarat since 2002.
Built by the French company NAVYA SAS, the $250,000 RAC Intellibus can shuttle 11 passengers and is capable of a 28 mph speed.
The installation of both the on-board and trackside equipment covers four test trains and an area of seven miles between the suburbs of Arncliffe and Oatley, in the South of Sydney.
The five additional six-car X’Trapolis trainsets will enhance the Melbourne’s Metropolitan Rail Network's capacity.
Young people don't listen to safety messages, so how do you get them to stop being unsafe around trains? By making it the dumbest way to die. This case study shows how this thought led to the development of the "Dumb Ways to Die" video as a safety message for Metro Trains in Melbourne, Australia, which went from viral video to an award-winning phenomenom. Published on Jun 18, 2013
A key component of the campaign is the Dumbs Ways to Die three-minute animated music video featuring 21 cartoon characters who deliver important safety messages in an unusual manner.
People power used to free a man who was trapped between the platform and a train at a Perth station. (ABC News Australia video)
The man was boarding in the Western Australia city of Perth when he slipped and became jammed in the gap between the carriage and the station.
A video tribute to the Sydney Monorail, which closed on June 30th 2013.
Will provide 19 additional intermediate cars to convert existing two-car train sets to three-car sets and supply seven additional new three-car train sets. This will result in a total fleet of 58 three-car Bombardier VLocity trains.
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