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Wednesday
Jun302010
Date30/06/10 |

Bombardier Wins New Contract in Delhi to Deliver Further 74 Movia Metro Cars

Bombardier Transportation announced today that it has won an order for 74 BOMBARDIER MOVIA metro cars from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (DMRC). The contract is valued at approximately 83 million euros ($101 million US) and includes an option of a further 40 cars. Delivery will follow the completion of existing contracts and is expected to end in 2011. With the contract award DMRC will be operating a large fleet of 498 MOVIA metro cars, benefiting from economies of scale in both acquisition and maintenance costs. The new achievement is a further milestone for Bombardier’s railway vehicle manufacturing operations in India, part of a sound and swiftly implemented business expansion plan. The company signed its first contract with DMRC in July 2007, inaugurated its manufacturing plant in Savli, Gujarat in November 2008 and completed the local manufacturing of its first metro car in June 2009. Today over 160 of these MOVIA cars are successfully operating in Delhi’s metro network. The recent industrial set-up at Savli, where MOVIA metro cars for DMRC are manufactured, is a landmark achievement by any standard. The site was built in a record 18 months involving a great deal of skill and co-operation from Bombardier teams in India and abroad. Providing a further impetus to the local economy and a testament to India’s vast skills base, the site generated 750 new jobs and over 2,000 indirect jobs through the local supplier network. In the phase II expansion of the Delhi Metro, the modern MOVIA high-capacity vehicles will transport an impressive 4 million passengers every day, reducing their journey time and alleviating the heavy traffic congestion and pollution prevalent in the city. The phase II expansion extends the existing network to a total of 125 kilometres covering all major destinations in the East-West and North-South corridors of the city, which is occupied by approximately 16 million inhabitants. The success of the MOVIA car is acknowledged by the majority of operators around the world. This is evident with more than 3,800 MOVIA metro cars ordered to date. The MOVIA metro vehicles integrate the world’s most advanced technologies in metro vehicle manufacturing, such as stainless steel car bodies and the reliable BOMBARDIER MITRACpropulsion and control system featuring IP technology. The MOVIA metros are developed from a standardized platform, which ensures a high degree of reliability, safety and maintainability while providing low life-cycle cost.

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Thursday
Jun172010
Date17/06/10 |

Bombardier Receives an Order from Metrolinx to Build 182 LRV for Toronto

Bombardier Transportation announced today that it has signed an agreement with Metrolinx for the exercise of 182 option vehicles, included in the June 2009 contract. The agreement is valued at approximately $770 million CDN ($745 million US, 617 million euros). Deliveries of these vehicles are scheduled to take place between 2013 and 2020. Under the agreement, up to an additional 118 vehicles could be ordered at a later date. “Bombardier is proud to be part of this very important expansion of public transit in Toronto and greatly appreciates the confidence Metrolinx has placed in us,” said Raymond Bachant, President, Bombardier Transportation, North America. “This order further solidifies our presence in Ontario and highlights Bombardier’s proven state of the art light rail technology, which is available to all cities in North America.” The vehicles are BOMBARDIER FLEXITY 100% low-floor light rail technology. The five-module bi-directional vehicles are more than 28 meters long and 2.65 meters wide. These vehicles will provide reliable performance along with a wide range of features, including a step-less interior allowing easy access at street level; car capacity for more than 280 passengers; efficient heating and air conditioning; comfortable interior; enhanced accessibility and safety features; locations for wheelchairs and strollers; active leveling system to ease boarding and exiting; enhanced communications features; and a regenerative braking system that feeds power back into the Metrolinx network. Final assembly of these additional vehicles for Toronto will take place at Bombardier production facility in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

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Monday
Jun072010
Date07/06/10 |

Alstom has inaugurated its first tramway maintenance centre in Reims

Alstom and its partner, "The Bouygues Group", were involved as project managers in the functional definition of the maintenance centre and in making architectural choices. Amongst other things, they were responsible for laying the tracks in the depot: pitted tracks, storage tracks and testing tracks. Alstom electrified the tracks and provided all rail signalling installations, including the centralised command station equipment which will be used to manage tramway and bus traffic. Alstom also designed, supplied, installed and managed all of the centre's maintenance equipment: wheel reshaping machine, trainset wash station, complete trainset lifting and bogie maintenance jacks. 
Alstom - through Transdev, its subcontractor - will maintain the Reims tramway for a 30-year period as soon as it comes into service in April 2011. This contract, worth €93 million , is for the maintenance of the rolling stock and fixed installations. 

Alstom Transport is a 17% shareholder in the MARS consortium and is also the Construction Consortium’s representative. As such, Alstom is providing a turnkey solution for the Reims tram project involving the design and production of rolling stock and all electromechanical systems: 18 Citadis tramsets plus the rail track (in partnership with Colas Rail), signalling equipment, electrical supply installations, catenaries and ticketing systems for the urban area’s transport system. Line 1 of the Reims’ tramway system will be equipped with a ground-level power supply (APS system) over nearly 2 kilometres. With this technology, the tram can operate safely with a catenary-free system, thus preserving the appearance of the historical town centre. It only took 14 months to build the tracks for Line 1 of the Reims tramway system thanks to Appitrack technology. This is the first time this new solution has been used in France. Completely developed by Alstom, it involves a mechanised means for laying track, which minimises the logistical constraints associated with the project. It was used on nearly 60% of the Reims tramway line, and as a result, the work was completed three months faster than it would have been had conventional processes being used. 

The Reims tramway system’s Citadis trainsets are currently being designed and built in the La Rochelle factory. Five other sites will also be involved in manufacturing the trams: Tarbes will provide electrical and electronic equipment for the traction systems, Ornans the motors, Le Creusot the bogies, and Villeurbanne and Saint-Ouen the onboard electronics. The 18 tramsets will serve 23 stations and cover 11.2 kilometres on Line 1. The Reims tram is scheduled to come into service in April 2011.

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Thursday
Jun032010
Date03/06/10 |

Alstom delivers first renovated coaches for the Bucharest Metro

On 26 May, the first two renovated coaches of the Bucharest Metro left Alstom Transport’s site in Reichshoffen. After a 5-day trip across Germany, Austria, Hungary and then the Carpathian mountains in Romania, the coaches will be delivered to Metrorex’s workshop in Bucharest. Alstom will renovate a total of 15 of the oldest train sets in the Bucharest Metro fleet. They were manufactured for Metrorex - the company which runs the metro system - by Astra in Romania some 20 years ago. Alstom Transport’s teams in Reichshoffen, France, have been entrusted with the engineering and industrialisation of this renovation project, together with work on the two pre-production coaches. The coach’s drive trains and auxiliary converters will be renovated as part of the project. In addition, the air production assemblies and braking systems will be replaced. The series will then be modernised in Alstom’s Bucharest workshops, where Alstom already supervises maintenance operations on the metro's train sets. Examination of the pre-production coaches has already allowed Alstom's teams to examine the equipment’s design. They were then reconditioned so that they could run on the Reichshoffen site’s test track and have their traction and braking performance measured, before later being renovated and then put through validation tests. This project involved a team of ten or so people over more than 12 months at the Reichshoffen site. Around 10 Alstom employees in Bucharest were also involved in cabling. The first renovated train set is scheduled to come into commercial service in November 2010. Mass renovation of the 15 train sets will begin in June 2010 and is scheduled to be completed by March 2012. 
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Monday
May312010
Date31/05/10 |

Bombardier Signs $241 Million USD Contract for INNOVIA Monorail System in Riyadh

Bombardier Transportation has signed a contract with Saudi Oger Limited., a leading Saudi Arabian construction company, for the supply, installation, operation and maintenance of a 3.6-km (2.2-mi.) BOMBARDIER INNOVIA Monorail 300 system for the King Abdullah Financial District, the new financial and business centre under development in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Oger Limited, as the contractor responsible for the full turnkey construction of the new Monorail system, was awarded the contract by the Rayadah Investment Company, the investment vehicle of the Public Pension Agency of the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on April 14, 2010.  Bombardier, as subcontractor to Saudi Oger, will design and supply all of the system-wide Electrical and Mechanical (E&M) elements for the six-station monorail system, including six INNOVIA Monorail 300 trains (12 cars) with BOMBARDIER CITYFLO 650 automatic train control technology for driverless operation as well as providing project management, systems engineering and integration, testing and commissioning. Engineering and design for the Monorail vehicles will be centered at Bombardier’s site in Kingston, Canada, and manufacturing of the 12 cars will be carried out by Bombardier in Pittsburgh, USA. Together with Saudi Oger, Bombardier will also provide its branded INNOVIA O&M operation and maintenance services for the system for an initial contractual period of 10 years. The total value of Bombardier’s contract is  $241 million US (195 million euros). Completion of the 3.6-km (2.2-mi.) INNOVIA Monorail system is scheduled in 2012, with operation and maintenance services to commence at the start of revenue service.

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