Avignon orders 24 Alstom LRVs
GREATER Avignon Metropolitan Area council has awarded Alstom a €45m contract to supply 24 Citadis Compact LRVs which are intended for operation on the city's planned 14.5km two-line light rail network.
GREATER Avignon Metropolitan Area council has awarded Alstom a €45m contract to supply 24 Citadis Compact LRVs which are intended for operation on the city's planned 14.5km two-line light rail network.The 24m-long LRVs will have...
TTRANS Sistemas de Transportes, a member of the VLT RMBS consortium building the 15km light rail line in the Brazilian city of Santos, has selected Thales to supply signalling and communications systems for the project.
The...
THE first of 11 Citadis 402 low-floor LRV’s for Dubai’s Al Sufouh Tramway was presented to Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) chairman His Excellency Mattar Al Tayer at Alstom’s La Rochelle plant on June...
FINNISH minister of transport Mrs Merja Kyllönen unveiled the first of a new fleet of 40 low-floor LRVs for Helsinki City Transport (HKL) at Transtech's Otanmäki facility on June 13.
The three-section 27.6m-long vehicle is the...
MZKT, the municipal public transport operator in the Polish city of Toruń, has issued an invitation to tender for a contract to supply a fleet of 12 low-floor LRVs for the city's 41.4km metre-gauge tram...
VIENNESE public transport operator Wiener Linien is considering whether to launch a new tender for LRVs instead of exercising an option for 150 additional Ultra Low-Floor (ULF) vehicles from Siemens.
Wiener Linien awarded Siemens a contract...
ŠKODA Transportation's newest LRV, the 26T, began testing in Pilsen, Czech Republic, on May 15 ahead of delivery of the first two vehicles to the northern Hungarian city of Miskolc in July.Miskolc Transport placed a...
ŠKODA Transportation has agreed a 10-year technology licensing contract with CSR Qingdao Sifang to produce up to 400 ForCity (15T) low-floor LRV cars for the Chinese market.ForCity is currently in operation in Prague (pictured) and...
IRJ at the 60th UTIP World Congress Geneva: THE International Public Transport Association (UITP) has selected Sir Peter Hendy CBE as its next president. Hendy, the commissioner of Transport for London (TfL) will take over...
THE first of 18 CAF Urbos low-floor LRVs ordered by Debrecen public transport operator DKV in 2011 arrived in the Hungarian city on May 22.
The five-section 600V dc bidirectional vehicles are 32.5m long and accommodate...
