Thales has signed a contract with QDVC QSC, a leading construction company in Qatar jointly owned by Qatari Diar (51%) and VINCI Construction Grands Projets (49%), for the delivery of an integrated supervision, telecommunications, security and automatic fare collection system for the Lusail Light Rail Transit System. The new tramway
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Cracow City Transport (MPK) will be testing a low-floor Solaris tram for the next three months on line 1 from Nowa Huta to the city centre. The Tramino presented in Cracow is almost 32 metres long. The 100% low-floor, multiarticulated vehicle consists of five body sections. The step-free interior makes
Belarusian rolling stock manufacturer Belkommunmash is testing the new BKM-802 tramway model for the Belarusian city of Novopolotsk. According to Yelena Tsikhelashvili, a representative of the Novopolotsk city tram depot, such trams have not been used in Belarus until now. After a long period of startup and commissioning efforts, the latest model of
The European Commission has approved EUR 293 million from the Cohesion Fund for five major projects to improve sustainable transport services in the biggest Polish metropoles Warsaw, Łódź, Szczecin and Poznań. These investments aim to modernise the public transport systems in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way and will provide
Slovakia: The European Commission approved an investment of EUR 63 million from the Cohesion Fund to extend Bratislava’s tramway from the city centre to Bratislava’s most populous borough Petrzalka (Title of project: Tramway extension to Petrzalka borough – 1st Segment Safarikovo namestie – Bosakova ulica D1 Dubna Skala – Turany) .
The Finnish City of Tampere announced that Turkish company Gulermak and three other consortia have prequalified in the tender for the Tampere tramway project: 1. LEMMINKAINEN (Finland) – RAMBOLL (Denmark) – ALSTOM (France) – INSINORRIT SUNNITELU (Finland): 137.75 Point / 160 2. GULERMAK (Turkey) : 134.80 Point / 160 3. DESTIA (Finland)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering providing a EUR 10.0 million (KZT 2.46 billion) loan to Pavlodar Tram Management Company support to improve public transport services in the city . Pavlodar Tram Management Company is wholly owned by the Pavlodar Oblast Akimat (the Oblast Akimat) through its asset management company Joint-Stock
On Tuesday 16 December at the Saint-Denis Porte de Paris station, the Alstom Citadis tram entered service on line 8 of the Ile-de-France tram network, linking Saint-Denis with Epinay-sur-Seine and Villetaneuse. This new service is a result of the contract between RATP and Alstom, signed in 2010, for the supply
MPK Wrocław and PESA Bydgoszcz signed a PLN 50 million (EUR 12 million) contract for the supply of six 100% low-floor tramways. The vehicles are scheduled to be delivered in the next six months. The three-section tramway, from Pesa’s TWIST range, is 32 m long and 2.4 m wide, it has 58 seats
Public transport operator Wiener Linien announced it has selected Bombardier for a EUR 562m contract to supply up to 156 low-floor tramways. The 34m-long five-section vehicle, accommodating up to 211 passengers will be assembled at Bombardier’s Centre of Excellence for Trams and Light Rail Vehicles in Vienna. Deliveries will be carried our between 2018 and 2026. The new Flexity
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