Alstom awarded signalling contract for Beijing Metro

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Alstom and its two Chinese joint ventures have been awarded two contracts by Beijing MTR Construction Administration Corp., totalling €140 million, to provide both advanced traction and signalling systems for the new Line 6 of the Beijing metro.

Beijing Line 6, which represents the longest metro line in construction in Beijing, is 42 km long with 27 stations, and runs through the city, starting from Wuluju in the West to Tongzhou New Town in the East. As Beijing’s first metro line of large capacity adopting 8-car train sets, it travels at 100km/h with a 3-minute headway.

The entry into commercial service of Beijing Line 6 Phase 1 is planned in 2012.

The first joint venture, Shanghai Alstom Transport Electrical Equipment will provide a traction system with the latest technology named OPTONIX for the 512 metro cars (64 8-car train set).

OPTONIX, specially designed and developed by Alstom for the Chinese market, reduces travel time and increases frequency of the train operation. Furthermore, it allows the train to consume 30% less energy than a conventional metro. Already implemented on Beijing L15, this system is now fully operational since the end of 2010.

In parallel, the second joint venture, CASCO, will deliver an advanced train control and signalling system to Beijing Line 6. The metro line 6 will be equipped with the Urbalis Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) system that integrates network communications with data transmission by radio.

Already implemented on Line 2, Alstom’s Urbalis CBTC system reduces the intervals between trains in order to ensure passenger traffic of over one million passengers per day.

“These are significant contracts for Alstom as they show continued confidence of Beijing MTR in Alstom’s technologies — for a city that is rapidly building one of the worlds largest metro networks. Through Alstom’s long term partnerships and CASCO and SATEE joint ventures, as well as our strong localization strategy in China over the recent years, we have successfully delivered numerous metro projects, thereby creating a mechanism to best respond to the mass transit market growth in China”, stated Dominique Pouliquen, President of Alstom Transport Asia Pacific and Alstom China Country President.

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