Chinese Metro Transport News & Updates

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Chengdu unveils driverless metro train
(People's Daily Online) 09:56, February 22, 2019

(Photo/scol.com.cn)​

Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, unveiled a train for its first driverless metro line – Line 9, on Feb. 19, scol.com.cn reported on Tuesday.

The train is 185 meters long, 3 meters wide and can run at speeds of up to 100 kilometers per hour. It is made of aluminum alloy and has a maximum passenger capacity of 3,496 people, the largest capacity of all metro services in Chengdu to date.

The first phase of Line 9 has now entered its debugging stage, said Zeng Jian, vice director of the new metro line department of Chengdu Rail Transit Group. He disclosed that 25 metro trains will go into service on Line 9, and besides three which will be produced in Changchun, capital of northeast China’s Jilin Province, the remaining 22 trains will all be produced locally by Chengdu Zhongche Changke Rail Vehicle Co., Ltd.

The trains used on Line 9 will all be equipped with the GoA4 fully-automatic driving system, the world’s most advanced automated urban metro subway system, and will feature functions such as automatic wake-up, automatic operation, and remote control.

The failure detection devices and network control system based on Ethernet enable the Line 9 trains to be both intelligent and safe.

(Photo/scol.com.cn)​

The metro trains will also be equipped with online detection systems for storage batteries, running gears and doors. With real-time data gathered from nearly 6,000 monitoring points being transmitted to the ground control center, metro operators can receive real-time vehicle data and improve operational efficiency.

The driverless metro line, built by Chengdu Zhongche Changke Rail Vehicle Co., Ltd, will go into trial operation in the second half of the next year as the city’s first metro line with a fully automatic rail transportation system complete with driverless metro trains.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Changzhou Metro Line 1 will be opened during the year.
Changzhou mobile phone station 2019-01-14 20:21:00
http://rev.uar.hubpd.com/static/tpl...AR-000405_374&tt_group_id=6646327529873342983

Before the end of December 2019, Changzhou citizens will enter the subway era. Let's take a look at the latest developments in Metro Line 1.

In the winter morning, the cold wind hits people, but the scene of the construction site is booming: steel workers, formwork workers, and concrete pouring workers are all busy.

Due to the late start of the new district park station and the complicated geological conditions, the three entrances and exits and the three wind pavilions were all overtime, adding manpower, all the working surfaces were started at the same time, and the construction process was also arranged more rationally. Make sure you have enough time and space

At present, the entire line of Line 1 is busy day and night. While successfully completing the three major nodes of “Tongtong”, “Railway” and “Chengtong”, the main structures of 29 stations on Line 1 have been completed, and most of the stations are carrying out auxiliary structures such as entrances and exits and wind pavilions. Construction, in addition, mechanical and electrical installation, decoration and decoration are also in full swing.

It is reported that the preparatory work before the trial operation is opened is interlocking. The main body and auxiliary facilities of all stations must be completed before the Spring Festival. The equipment will be commissioned in March, and the joint adjustment will be carried out in May. After that, there will be 3 months of no-load test operation. Only have the conditions for opening the trial operation. At the same time, the ground roads and greening along Line 1 will also be fully restored and open to the public with a new look.

http://rev.uar.hubpd.com/static/tpl...AR-000405_374&tt_group_id=6646327529873342983

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

High-definition big picture, Changzhou Metro Line 1 station leader~（China Jiangsu Province)
常州房天下 2019-02-20 11:15:44
地铁1号线的开通试运营
https://www.toutiao.com/a6659916065058849292/
是常州人民翘首期盼的事

2月19日

常州轨道交通发展有限公司副总经理胡导云

做客《新闻夜班车》

带你了解地铁1号线车站

1号线一期工程共29座车站


车站设计采取

标准站与重点站相结合的方式

标准站一线一景，强调标准统一

重点站一站一景，彰显其特色

目前大部分的车站都在进行

装饰装修和设备调试的工作

小编先带大家看一下

地铁1号线车站几个重点站的高清大图

常州北站

常州北站，主要体现交通发展的日新月异，采取的中间吊顶形式，用了动车穿梭的理念。给人一种发车密度很高，车辆穿梭比较频繁，速度很快的感觉。

奥体中心站

奥体中心站，运用奥运五环元素，体现奥林匹克精神，柱面上配上各种运动元素的剪影。

市民广场站

广场是老百姓休憩的地方，也是城市的绿化休闲场所，车站的装修设计选取“树”这个元素，中间是一棵树干，顶面用了树冠的形式，并且延伸到局部的文化墙墙面上，寓意着寓意“前人栽树，后人乘凉”，也寓意着常州是一个生态文明城市。

常州火车站

将老常州火车站建筑元素融入到设计中，让乘客到了车站里，能够唤醒一种城市记忆。

同济桥车站

模拟大成原厂房的空间氛围，突出常州作为民族工业发祥地之一的历史地位。

高架车站

阳湖路站和南夏墅站两个是高架车站，把钢结构的自然美和周边的工业文明结合起来。

另外，据胡导云介绍，在1号线重点车站，尤其是线路比较长的车站，会考虑利用地下空间的资源，来布置一些便民的商业设施。例如文化宫站，有两层的地下便民设施和负三层的停车。

看完以上这些

对于常州地铁1号线

大家是不是了解更多了

让我们一起期待年底的试运营

期待1号线闪亮登场

期待地铁时代的到来

（来源：CBS新闻中心）

 

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jinan metro is officially open

 

[JSCh]

How to add a station to a working subway line
New China TV
Published on Jun 7, 2019

You might not think it, but adding new station to a subway line while it's in operation is a real engineering challenge

 

[JSCh]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1139782087248977921

People's Daily, China✔@PDChina

The 41-km Metro Airport Line connecting #Beijing's newly built Daxing Int’l Airport has begun no-load trial runs on Saturday. The trains run at an average speed of 117 km/h, with the maximum speed up to 160 km/h.

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2:30 PM - Jun 15, 2019

 

[Dinky]

High-definition big picture, Changzhou Metro Line 1 station leader~（China Jiangsu Province)
常州房天下 2019-02-20 11:15:44
地铁1号线的开通试运营
https://www.toutiao.com/a6659916065058849292/
是常州人民翘首期盼的事

2月19日

常州轨道交通发展有限公司副总经理胡导云

做客《新闻夜班车》

带你了解地铁1号线车站

1号线一期工程共29座车站


车站设计采取

标准站与重点站相结合的方式

标准站一线一景，强调标准统一

重点站一站一景，彰显其特色

目前大部分的车站都在进行

装饰装修和设备调试的工作

小编先带大家看一下

地铁1号线车站几个重点站的高清大图

常州北站

常州北站，主要体现交通发展的日新月异，采取的中间吊顶形式，用了动车穿梭的理念。给人一种发车密度很高，车辆穿梭比较频繁，速度很快的感觉。

奥体中心站

奥体中心站，运用奥运五环元素，体现奥林匹克精神，柱面上配上各种运动元素的剪影。

市民广场站

广场是老百姓休憩的地方，也是城市的绿化休闲场所，车站的装修设计选取“树”这个元素，中间是一棵树干，顶面用了树冠的形式，并且延伸到局部的文化墙墙面上，寓意着寓意“前人栽树，后人乘凉”，也寓意着常州是一个生态文明城市。

常州火车站

将老常州火车站建筑元素融入到设计中，让乘客到了车站里，能够唤醒一种城市记忆。

同济桥车站

模拟大成原厂房的空间氛围，突出常州作为民族工业发祥地之一的历史地位。

高架车站

阳湖路站和南夏墅站两个是高架车站，把钢结构的自然美和周边的工业文明结合起来。

另外，据胡导云介绍，在1号线重点车站，尤其是线路比较长的车站，会考虑利用地下空间的资源，来布置一些便民的商业设施。例如文化宫站，有两层的地下便民设施和负三层的停车。

看完以上这些

对于常州地铁1号线

大家是不是了解更多了

让我们一起期待年底的试运营

期待1号线闪亮登场

期待地铁时代的到来

（来源：CBS新闻中心）

beautiful metro's

 

[JSCh]

Wuhan to test 'sky train' this year
chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-06-19 16:49

A 'Skytrain' starts trial runs in Qingdao, Shandong province on July 20, 2017. [Photo/Chinanews.com]

China Railway Science & Industry Group Corp (CRSIC) in Wuhan is developing a suspended monorail vehicle known as a "sky train", which is expected to be in operation by the end of year, cnhubei.com reported on Tuesday.

The report said that the train's main body is almost complete.

Designed similarly to subway train, the suspension train was built with each carriage to measure 11 meters long and 2.4 meters wide.

A one-kilometer railway line suspended 500 meters above the ground for trial operation is also under construction.

According to Wang Yinglin, director of CRSIC's New Railway Research Institute, the train can travel at a maximum speed of up to 70 kilometers per hour, making it the fastest of its kind in China.

Each train, comprising three or five carriages, is capable of carrying up to 300 or 400 passengers, respectively, with the total number of riders expected to reach 10,000 an hour.

"Compared with other railway transportations such as the underground subway, light rail or tram, suspended railway occupies less space, has a wider view and is also easier to arrange, which along with its strong climbing capability, make it particularly well-suited for the outskirts of big cities, as well as medium-sized cities and tourist attractions with heavy traffic," he said.

China is now the third country in the world to develop this kind of technology, after Germany and Japan.

A number of cities including Leshan in Sichuan and Hanzhong in Shaanxi provinces have put forward their plans to develop sky trains, while a suspension railway made by CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd, began testing in 2017.

 

[JSCh]

China's new carbon fiber subway completes trial operation
China Plus Published: 2019-06-20 12:09:23

Lighter and more energy-efficient, a carbon fiber subway train with six carriages completed a test run, said CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co. on Wednesday.

A carbon fiber subway train consisting of six carriages completes its first test run. [Photo: IC]

The new generation of carriages is made of carbon fiber composite which reduces weight by 13%, and the use of a silicon carbide inverter and a permanent magnet synchronous traction motor can save 15% of the energy consumption, said Ding Sansan, deputy chief engineer of the company.

The train can run up to 140 kilometers per hour.

The windows of the carriages are touch screens allowing passengers to go online. De-noising equipment will reduce the noise inside carriages to less than five decibels.

The number of carriages is also switchable, ranging from two to twelve based on the passenger flow.

A staff member displays how to use the touch screen on the window of the carriage. [Photo: IC]

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The inside of the carriage is seen. [Photo: IC]

 

[JSCh]

China's first cross-Yellow River metro line begins trial operation
Source: Xinhua| 2019-06-23 23:02:27|Editor: ZX

LANZHOU, June 23 (Xinhua) -- The first metro line running under the Yellow River, China's second longest river, started trial operation on Sunday in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province.

The city is located on the upper reaches of China's "mother river," which runs 5,464 km from west to east before entering the Pacific.

The fast urban transit has been a dream for 3 million residents in the city, where the river runs through the middle, creating a heavy traffic pressure on the road bridge. Construction of the metro line started in 2014.

The 25.9-km long section in service on Sunday is the first phase of Lanzhou Metro Line 1, passing through four urban districts of Lanzhou from east to west.

The first metro line in Lanzhou is also the first rail transit line crossing the Yellow River in China. The tunnel passes through a pebble layer with a depth of 200 to 300 meters, which is highly permeable and unstable.

"The metro construction has accumulated experiences for other cross-river urban rail and tunnel construction in similar geological and stratigraphic conditions," said Duan Tingzhi, chairman of the Lanzhou Rail Transit.

Huang Jianwei, deputy secretary-general of the China Urban Rail Transit Association, said that by the end of 2018, a total of 35 cities in China had opened 185 urban rail transit lines with an operation mileage of 5,761 km.

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[JSCh]

Suspended rail transit system unveiled at university in Jiangxi, China
Oct 14, 2019
New China TV

A new suspended maglev rail system is unveiled at a university in Jiangxi, China

 

[JSCh]

China Deploys World's First Commercial Hydrogen Streetcar
XU WEI
DATE : NOV 29 2019/SOURCE : YICAI

China Deploys World's First Commercial Hydrogen Streetcar​

(Yicai Global) Nov. 29 -- The world's first commercially operated hydrogen energy streetcar was officially commissioned into use in Foshan, Guangdong province today, China News Service reported.

The hydrogen energy trolley line, which had total investment of CNY1.07 billion (USD152 million), runs for 17.4 kilometers, the local government said. The completed 6.57-kilometer first phase has a 70 kilometer-per-hour top speed and accommodates up to 285 riders.

Each tram car is equipped with six gas storage tanks with a 20-kilogram hydrogen storage capacity.

The southeastern Chinese city will add 80 hydrogen-powered buses, the local government pledged.

 

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Macau’s first-ever railway to start today | Macau News
10 Dec, 2019

The Taipa section of the long-delayed Light Rail Transit (LRT), which also covers Cotai, will finally start service this Tuesday afternoon, and passengers can take rides free of charge until December 31, the government-owned operator has announced.

According to a statement on Friday by the operator, officially named “Macao Light Rapid Transit Corporation, Limited” in English, Macau’s first-ever railway will be inaugurated this morning, and the first ride will depart from the Taipa Ferry Terminal station – the eastern terminus of the Taipa section – at 3:33 p.m.

During the three-week free-of-charge period, passengers need to obtain a one-way ticket from LRT staff at ticket gates to enter the paid area to take a ride, the statement said.

The statement said that the company will announce the LRT fare system in due course.

The government has indicated that the LRT fare system will be similar to the city’s public bus fare system – passengers will have to pay a full fare when using a ticket while they will have a discounted fare when using a stored-value LRT card. However, the government has also indicted that there will be a major difference between the two fare systems – the actual LRT fare will depend on the number of stations a passenger passes on a trip – which is different from the public bus fare system which charges a single fare irrespective of the number of bus stops during a passenger’s bus ride. The government has also said that the LRT fares will be a little bit higher than the public bus fares.

The government has spent 11 billion patacas on the LRT Taipa section project, including the construction, the rolling stock and the setting-up of the system.

The LRT was first proposed by the government in the early 2000s. However, the main construction – the Taipa section – only started in 2012.

The LRT project, namely the first phase consisting of the Taipa section and a section along the east coast of the peninsula, was initially budgeted at 4.2 billion patacas in 2007, when the government expected it to come into service in late 2011.

The government announced its construction plan for the LRT first phase in 2009 with the budget rising to 7.5 billion patacas, when the government expected it to come into service in 2014. Construction of the LRT first phase was initially slated to get off the ground in 2010. However, construction only started in 2012 due to appeals by bidders against the outcome of the public tender for the project.

In 2014, the government expected the Taipa section of the LRT first phase – that is, not including the section along the peninsula’s east coast – to come into operation in 2016.

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário, who took office in December 2014, told lawmakers in late 2015 that the government “provisionally” expected the LRT Taipa section to start operating in 2019. Since early this year, the government had repeatedly reaffirmed that the Taipa section will start operating before the 20th anniversary of Macau’s return to the motherland.

The 9.3-kilometre-long Taipa section has 11 stations.

The government now aims for the LRT section connecting Taipa and Barra – via Sai Van Bridge – to be completed in 2022 or 2023. The ongoing Taipa-Barra LRT section project, including Barra station on the southernmost tip of the peninsula – is budgeted at 4.5 billion patacas. “Barra” is Portuguese for “harbour entrance”. The Chinese name of the station is Ma Kok – due to the nearby Ma Kok (A Ma) Temple.

The government still does not have a final plan for the LRT project on the peninsula.

According to Friday’s statement, the LRT Taipa section will operate from 6:30 a.m. to 11:15 p.m. from Mondays to Thursdays, and from 6:30 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. from Fridays to Sundays and on public holidays. Each train is expected to depart every five to 10 minutes.

The government signed an 80-month contract with Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation in April last year for the latter to operate the LRT Taipa section for five years as well as to provide assistance in the run-up to the start of its operation.

The LRT project had been planned and supervised by the Transport Infrastructure Office (GIT) – a government “project team” established in 2007 – until it was replaced on October 1 by “Macao Light Rapid Transit Corporation, Limited”, a company fully owned by the government which was established earlier this year.

According to the Macau Post Daily, the government signed a 10-year agreement with Macao Light Rapid Transit Corporation, Limited in late September for the operation and maintenance of the LRT system.

 

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Chinese mainland's first undersea subway tunnel starts operation
(People's Daily Online) 13:20, December 26, 2019

A station of the Xiamen metro Line 2. (Photo/xmgdjt.net)

The first undersea subway tunnel of China started official operation on Dec. 25 as southeast China’s Xiamen announced the opening of its metro Line 2.

The metro line, designed by China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co., Ltd., is the second metro line of Xiamen. It covers a length of 41.6 kilometers with 32 underground stations.

The undersea section of the metro line is 2,784 meters long, and it takes around 3 minutes to complete the length.

“The undersea section was the hardest part in Xiamen’s history of subway construction,” said Wang Jinlong, chief designer of the metro line, referring to the 2,784-meter tunnel that took the constructers 1,137 days to complete.

“The time explains the difficulty,” Wang added.

The undersea tunnels of Xiamen metro Line 2 and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge have accumulated valuable experience and built vital technical reserve for China’s future construction of cross-strait tunnels, said Qian Qihu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering at a recent technical evaluation seminar for the metro line.

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Inner Mongolia's first subway line opens
Source: Xinhua| 2019-12-29 13:38:39|Editor: mingmei

HOHHOT, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region opened its first-ever subway line in Hohhot, its capital city, on Sunday.

The 21.72-km-long metro line of 20 stations offer service to the four urban districts of Hohhot with a maximum capacity of 2,062 passengers and a top speed of 80 km per hour.

The new metro line will greatly relieve the pressure on public transportation in the city, said Liu Zhanying, chairman of Hohhot Urban Rail Transit Co., Ltd.

The city, with a population of over 3 million residents, is among the top ten Chinese cities with the worst traffic flows, according to a report issued by AutoNavi Software Co., Ltd. and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in early 2019.

China has more than 30 cities with operational metro systems, and that figure is projected to reach 50 by 2020 as more cities complete their urban rail projects.