The cars will form a single uninterrupted train for passengers, serving the mobility of Greater Montreal.
Replacing the current train control system, which is more than 48 years old, with Hitachi’s new CBTC system allows BART to safely operate the trains on tighter schedules and at more closely spaced intervals.
The project will improve the system’s state of good repair and capacity requirements, as well as secure customer satisfaction for the next 30 years and beyond.
Replacing the current system, which is 47 years old, will allow more trains to run closer together and enhance Transbay capacity.
Publisher James Blue discusses new technologies, including CBTC and the need for SWOT analysis.
The company will deliver 12 fully automated two-car trains equipped with GoA4 Communication Based Train Control Trainguard MT CBTC, the track work equipment, the station platform doors, communication system, depot equipment, and the power supply system.
The commissioning of Urbalis 400 on TYSSE is one phase of the Line 1 Yonge-University signaling project that was conferred to Alstom by TTC in 2009 with a scope increase in 2015, and marks the first time that such an innovative radio-based CBTC system enters into commercial service on a metro line in Canada.
To meet growing capacity concerns and deliver wireless networks that can meet on-board entertainment expectations, effective signaling is becoming vitally important for the control and reliability of local, regional, and national railway systems.
The contract is part of the SYTRAL’s "Avenir Metro" (Future Metro) program, which aims to increase the transport capacity of lines A, B, and D of the Lyon metro to cope with an estimated 30% increase in ridership in the coming years.
The four-mile-long South Island line will extend MTR services from Admiralty Station to the Southern District of Hong Kong Island in 11 minutes via four new stations.
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