The Alstom Citadis is a family of

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s and light rail vehicles built by

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. , over 2,300 Citadis trams have been sold and 1,800 tramways are in revenue service throughout the world, with operations in all six inhabited continents. An evolution of Alstom's earlier TFS vehicle, most Citadis vehicles are made in Alstom's factories in

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and Valenciennes, France, and in Barcelona, Spain, and Annaba, Algeria.

Citadis types

The Citadis family includes both partial and fully

s and LRVs, in versions with three (20x), five (30x), seven (40x), and nine (50x) sections. It comprises the following standard variants:

Urban tramway vehicles

Citadis X00: *Citadis 100 – three section, 70% low floor, originally designed and manufactured by Konstal in

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for the Polish market (

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) Citadis X01 (First generation): *Citadis 301 – three section, 70% low floor ( Orléans) **Citadis 301 CIS – 100% low floor version with IPOMOS bogies on gauge ( Moscow,

Saint-Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

). Also designated 71-801 according to the Russian unified system of rolling stock classification (71=trams, 8=manufacturer code (Alstom), 01=model code). *Citadis 401 – five sections, 70% low floor (

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and Dublin, some converted from 301s) Citadis X02 (Second generation): *Citadis 202 – three section, 100% low floor ( Melbourne) *Citadis 302 – five sections, 100% low floor (

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, Adelaide, Angers, Lyon, Bordeaux, Paris T2, T7 and T8, Valenciennes, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Melbourne, Nice, Murcia, Barcelona, Jerusalem, Le Havre and Nottingham) *Citadis 402 – seven sections, 100% low floor ( Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lyon, Paris T3, Dubai, Rio de Janeiro,

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) *Citadis 502 – nine sections, 100% low floor ( Dublin, some converted from 402s) Citadis X03 (Third generation): *Citadis 403 – seven sections, 100% low floor (

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) Citadis X04 (Fourth generation): *Citadis 304 – 100% low floor, next generation design for Central and Eastern Europe ( Istanbul) Citadis X05 (Fifth generation): *Citadis 205 or Compact – three sections, 100% low floor (

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) *Citadis 305 – five sections, 100% low floor (

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Light-rail transit vehicles

*Regio-Citadis – three sections, 70% low floor LRV (Trams in Kassel, Kassel, Trams in The Hague, The Hague) *Citadis Dualis – four or five sections, 100% low-floor LRV (operated by the SNCF, ''see below'') * Citadis Spirit – three or four sections, 100% low floor LRV designed for the North American market (Confederation Line, Ottawa, Line 6 Finch West, Toronto)

Power supply

Like most trams, Citadis vehicles are usually powered by Overhead line, overhead electric wires collected by a Pantograph (transport), pantograph, but the trams in several places do not use pantograph current collection entirely. Other places, such as Toronto streetcar system, Toronto, use a trolley pole. The most popular solution is Alstom's proprietary ground-level power supply (Alstom APS, APS, first used in Bordeaux and subsequently in Angers, Trams in Reims, Reims, Trams in Orléans, Orleans, Trams in Tours, Tours, Dubai, Rio de Janeiro Light Rail, Rio, and

), consisting of a type of third rail which is only powered while it is completely covered by a tram so that there is no risk of a person or animal coming into contact with a live rail. On the networks in France and in Sydney, the trams switch to conventional Overhead lines, overhead wires in outer areas, but the Dubai vehicles are the first to employ APS for its entire passenger length (although they are still equipped with pantographs for use in the maintenance depot). Another option is to use on-board Battery (electricity), batteries to store electrical power, allowing brief periods of catenary-free operation without the need to install special infrastructure. The Citadis trams in Nice operate off a set of nickel metallic hydride batteries in two large open spaces where overhead wires would be an eyesore. This has since been superseded by a supercapacitor-based energy storage system (SRS) which is in use in Rio de Janeiro (alongside APS), Kaohsiung, and along a new line in Nice. The Regio-Citadis can also be built as a Multi-system (rail), dual-voltage or Electro-diesel locomotive, electro-diesel vehicle with various configurations.

Ordered Citadis trams

Africa

Asia

North America

The main article provides vehicle and order descriptions.

South America

Middle East

Europe

Oceania

References

External links

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