Rendering of an Alstom Metropolis prepare for Barcelona Metro operator TMB.
Alstom Design & Styling
Alstom has signed a contract with Barcelona Metro operator TMB (Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona) to produce 42 Metropolis trains to interchange these presently working on traces 1 and three of the community. The contract, valued at over $285 million, consists of the design, manufacturing and commissioning of the trains. The five-car trains will probably be manufactured in Alstom’s Barcelona website and delivered to TMB inside two and a half years.
“With the withdrawal of the oldest fleet, we speed up a means of renovation that can improve service reliability, sustainability and passenger consolation in two of our most frequented Metro traces, in a context of most demand for the collective transport of Barcelona, upon the entry into power of the low-emission zone,” stated Rosa Alarcón, president of TMB.
In response to the specs, the brand new Metropolis trains will meet strict sustainability standards; gentle construction, low vitality consumption, excessive ranges of recoverability and recyclability, technical reliability and ease of upkeep. The trains can even be geared up with distant sensors for optimum upkeep.
The trains for Barcelona will probably be constructed providing accessibility, huge doorways and areas to facilitate passenger movement, acoustic consolation, vibration mitigation and passenger info in actual time. Each exterior an inside design options will stay devoted to the TMB model, however can even add new visible components that replicate the id of Barcelona, equivalent to graphics on the doorways that symbolize Barcelona’s city panorama.
