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Cityflo 650 CBTC
''CITYFLO'' 650 signalling is a CBTC system designed by Bombardier Transportation. It makes use of bi-directional radio communication between trains and wayside equipment, as well as true moving block technology, to control train operation. Trains report their position via radio, and a wayside signalling system provides movement authorities to the trains via a radio link. Transit lines using the system Transit lines using the Cityflo 650 system as of February 26, 2014 include the following: In revenue service * Seattle Tacoma Int'l Airport, SeaTac, USA * Sacramento Int'l Airport, Sacramento, USA * San Francisco Int'l Airport, San Francisco, USA * McCarran Int'l Airport, Las Vegas, NV, USA * Phoenix Int'l Airport, Phoenix, USA * Dallas/Fort Worth Int'l Airport, Dallas, USA * SEPTA Subway-Surface Trolley Lines, USA * Heathrow Int'l Airport, UK * Gatwick Int'l Airport, UK * Line 1 and Line 6, Madrid Metro, Spain * Yong-In ART, South Korea * Wenhu Line, Taipei, Taiwan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communication-based Train Control
Communications-based train control (CBTC) is a railway signaling system that uses telecommunications between the train and track equipment for traffic management and infrastructure control. CBTC allows a train's position to be known more accurately than with traditional signaling systems. This makes railway traffic management safer and more efficient. Metros (and other railway systems) are able to reduce headways while maintaining or even improving safety. A CBTC system is a "continuous, automatic train control system utilizing high-resolution train location determination, independent from track circuits; continuous, high-capacity, bidirectional train-to-wayside data communications; and trainborne and wayside processors capable of implementing automatic train protection (ATP) functions, as well as optional automatic train operation (ATO) and automatic train supervision (ATS) functions," as defined in the IEEE 1474 standard.1474.1–1999 – IEEE Standard for Communications-Base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gatwick Airport
Gatwick Airport (), also known as London Gatwick , is a major international airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, south of Central London. In 2021, Gatwick was the third-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the UK, after Heathrow and Stansted airports, and was the 36th-busiest in Europe by total passenger traffic. It covers a total area of . Gatwick opened as an aerodrome in the late 1920s; it has been in use for commercial flights since 1933. The airport has two terminals, the North Terminal and the South Terminal, which cover areas of and respectively. It operates as a single-runway airport, using a main runway with a length of . A secondary runway is available but, due to its proximity to the main runway, can only be used if the main runway is not in use. In 2018, 46.1 million passengers passed through the airport, a 1.1% increase compared with 2017. History The land on which Gatwick Airport stands was first developed as an aerodrome in the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klang Valley MRT
The Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit project is a planned three-line mass rapid transit (MRT) system in the Klang Valley (Greater Kuala Lumpur), an urban conurbation in Malaysia which includes the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. The MRT lines, when completed, would be operated as components of the Klang Valley Integrated Transit System. Once completed, the MRT would serve to strengthen the current rail transit network in the Klang Valley, integrating the various existing rail lines while alleviating the severe traffic congestion in the Klang Valley metropolitan area. The proposal was announced in June 2010 and was approved by the government of Malaysia in December 2010. Construction of the first line commenced in July 2011. The project also represents one of the economic entry point projects identified for the Klang Valley "National Key Economic Area" under the Economic Transformation Programme by the Malaysian government. The Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (MRT Corp), founded in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MRT Purple Line
The MRT Purple line ( th, รถไฟฟ้ามหานคร สายสีม่วง) or MRT Chalong Ratchatham line ( th, รถไฟฟ้ามหานคร สายฉลองรัชธรรม) is Bangkok's fifth rapid transit line, following the Sukhumvit Line, Silom Line, MRT Blue Line, and Airport Rail Link. Daily ridership is 70,000.https://www.khaosod.co.th/economics/news_2933591. ''Khaosod'' ,30 September 2019 The line was opened on 6 August 2016 and is the second line of MRT system operated by BEM. The line is 23 km long, serving north-western part of Bangkok and Nonthaburi Province. History Origin Officially named the Chalong Ratchadham Line ( th, สายฉลองรัชธรรม) – "To Celebrate the Great King's Reign with Righteousness" – but informally known as the "Purple Line", the rapid transit system serves a north–south corridor in Bangkok's Mass Rapid Transit Master Plan. It incorporates an extension o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tianjin Metro
The Tianjin Metro or Tianjin Rail Transit is the rapid transit system in the city of Tianjin, which was the second city in mainland China after Beijing to operate a subway system (the Beijing Subway opened in 1971). Opened in 1984, the system has 8 operating lines and 205 stations spanning . The lines are jointly operated by two companies: the ''Tianjin Metro Group Co. Ltd'' and the ''Binhai Mass Transit Development Co. Ltd''. The former operates Lines 1, 2, 3, 6, and 10, while the latter operates Lines 5 and 9. The two companies merged and regrouped as the ''Tianjin Rail Transit Group Co.'' (TRT) in 2017. History Tianjin, as an inland harbor of China, has long been a major commercial city. After the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, the number of vehicles on the roads significantly increased, causing pollution. To overcome these problems, the transport authority decided to close the old tram network and switch over to a rapid transit system. However, due to cost, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line 3, Tianjin Metro
Line 3 of the Tianjin Metro () a rapid transit line running from north-east to south-west Tianjin. It was opened on 1 October 2012. The line is 33.7 km long and has 26 stations of which 8 are elevated and the rest are underground. Opening timeline Stations (southwest to northeast) OSI: Out-of-station interchange , , , 0.92 , 2.38 , - , , , , , 1.74 , 4.12 , - , , , , , 1.18 , 5.30 , - , , , , , 2.70 , 8.00 , rowspan="5", Nankai , - , , , , , 0.79 , 8.79 , - , , , , , 0.79 , 9.58 , - , , , , , 1.36 , 10.94 , - , , , , , 1.27 , 12.21 , - , , , , , 1.01 , 13.22 , Hexi/ Heping , - , , , , , 1.45 , 14.67 , rowspan="4", Heping , - , , , , , 1.09 , 15.76 , - , , , (OSI) , , 1.12 , 16.88 , - , , , , , 1.61 , 18.49 , - , , , TJP , , 0.85 , 19.34 , Hedong , - , , , , , 1.41 , 20.75 , rowspan="5", Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line 2, Tianjin Metro
Line 2 of the Tianjin Metro () is a rapid transit line running from west to east Tianjin. Opened on 1 July 2012, the line is 27.157 km long and has 20 stations. It is mostly underground; all stations, with the exception of surface-level station Caozhuang, are underground. In May 2011, during construction, a section of tunnel west of Tianjin railway station was flooded with water from the Hai River The Hai River (海河, lit. "Sea River"), also known as the Peiho, ("White River"), or Hai Ho, is a Chinese river connecting Beijing to Tianjin and the Bohai Sea. The Hai River at Tianjin is formed by the confluence of five watercourses: the ... and collapsed, trapping one of the TBMs. It was deemed too expensive to remove the trapped TBM, so a decision to abandon the TBM and dig a new tunnel around it was made. This delayed the original opening date from late 2011 to 2012. After the line opened for trial operations on 1 July 2012, it operated in two separate sections unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangzhou Metro
The Guangzhou Metro () ( and ) is the rapid transit system of the city of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province of China. It is operated by the state-owned Guangzhou Metro Corporation and was the fourth metro system to be built in mainland China, after those of Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai. The earliest efforts to build an underground rapid transit system in Guangzhou date back to 1960. In the two decades that followed, the project was brought into the agenda five times but ended up abandoned each time due to financial and technical difficulties. Preparation of what would lead to today's Guangzhou Metro did not start until the 1980s, and it was not until 1993 that construction of the first line, Line 1, officially began. Line 1 opened four years later in 1997 with five stations in operation. , Guangzhou Metro has 16 lines in operation, namely: Line 1, Line 2, Line 3, Line 4, Line 5, Line 6, Line 7, Line 8, Line 9, Line 13, Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhujiang New Town Automated People Mover System
Zhujiang New Town Automated People Mover System (), or APM line, is an automated people mover (APM) system mainly serving the Zhujiang New Town area in Guangzhou, the new CBD of the city. All of its stations are underground. In terms of construction cost per kilometre, it is the most expensive people mover system in the world, yet it is the shortest and least used line in the Guangzhou Metro network. The whole line began service before the Asian Games on 8 November 2010 with the exception of and . This was due to the two stations being located close to the opening ceremony venue. Opening timeline Lengths and stations The entire track of the Zhujiang New Town APM, with a length of and all nine stations are laid underground, making it the first all underground urban people mover in the world. The shortest distance between two stations is with an average of the entire line approximating . Stations Operating hours The system was designed to provide service from 6:00 to 24:0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line 3, Shenzhen Metro
Shenzhen Metro Line 3 (formerly branded as Longgang line), runs northeastward from to . Line 3 opened on 28 December 2010. Line 3's color is . Since opening, it has been heavily trafficked and became a major transport option for urban workers. Line 3 currently has a service interval of 5 minutes between trains across the entire length of the line. Sectional trains operate on weekdays, between Huaxin and Tangkeng, from 7:15 am to 9:15 am and from 5:45 pm to 7:45 pm. This is to alleviate surges in passenger traffic at , since the opening of the connecting . History The first phase of Shenzhen Metro Line 3 started construction in July 2007. On 23 April 2008, the Shenzhen Municipal Planning Bureau renamed the still under construction Shenzhen Metro Line 3 to "Longgang Line". The renaming was later reverted in 2013. First stage The first phase of the line from to stations officially began operations on 28 December 2010. This section is almost entirely elevat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wenhu Line
The Wenhu or Brown line (code BR) is a metro line in Taipei operated by Taipei Metro, named after the districts it connects: Wenshan and Neihu. It is an automated medium-capacity rubber-tyred metro line and is long, serving a total of 24 stations located in 7 districts in Taipei, of which 22 are elevated and 2 underground. As of April 2022, the line transports an average of approximately 140,000 passengers daily. The Wenshan section began revenue service on 28 March 1996, as the Muzha line. The Neihu section began revenue service on 4 July 2009. The Wenhu line was named the Muzha–Neihu line, colloquially shortened as the Zhahu line, until 8 October 2009. This was the first metro line to be constructed in Taipei and it is the only line without train approaching melody. History Construction of the Wenshan line began in December 1988 at a cost of NT$42.6 billion. It was plagued by controversy, cost overruns and technical problems from its development up to a few years aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everline
EverLine is a fully automated driverless people mover line in Yongin, Seoul Capital Area connecting Everland, South Korea's most popular theme park, to Bundang Line of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway. The system is identical to AirTrain JFK people mover in New York City, using single-car Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit vehicles controlled by Bombardier CITYFLO 650 automatic train control technology. Ground was broken for construction in November 2005. Starting in November 2009, the operating company conducted test runs of the trains. The opening was delayed several times but finally opened for service on April 26, 2013. A physical transfer to the underground Giheung Station opened on January 9, 2014 and transfer discount to the Bundang Line was introduced in September 20, 2014. Operation Trains run every 6 minutes (9 minutes on Sundays and holidays). The train operates with one car trains unlike other ART systems but can be expanded to be two cars long similar to the AirTrain J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
