Received an order from the Shanghai Shentong Metro Co. Ltd for a turnkey Bombardier Innovia APM 300 automated people mover system, including 44 Innovia APM 300 automated people mover vehicles.
Riders can now board one of four three-car automated people movers at either the Coliseum Station or the Oakland International Airport Station and take the eight-minute ride at 30 mph.
Is also upgrading the LRT signalling and communications sub-systems to enhance overall system capacity and to integrate new platforms at the Choa Chu Kang LRT station into the system.
Rapid urbanization and an increase in air travel have created a fast growing market for urban feeder systems and airport transit solutions in China. The company will team with CSR Nanjing Puzhen for the venture.
The first phase of the $1.6 billion project connects with Terminal 4 — which handles 80% of Sky Harbor's passengers — and includes stops at an economy parking lot and a Metro light rail station.
Bombardier is a sub-contractor to ALEC and it will lead the project to design and supply all of the system-wide electrical and mechanical elements of the elevated APM system in a 24-month delivery program.
A fleet of 12 six-car Bombardier Innovia Monorail 100 trains originally served three airport terminals, three stations at remote parking lots and a rental car center via a dedicated, dual-lane elevated guideway. Since then, the system has been extended to the North East Corridor rail line, with the fleet expanding to 18 six-car trains.
System at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport first opened in September 1980. Since opening, the system has seen fleet expansions, extensions to the international concourse, two generations of replacement vehicles and numerous system upgrades.
Over 6 million passengers are expected to ride the train, manufactured by Bombardier Transportation, the first year; or, 16,000 a day.
The driverless transit system for the city's International Airport, includes two INNOVIA APM 100 vehicles, CITYFLO 650 automatic train control, power distribution system, communications equipment, station doors as well as operation and maintenance services.