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NOVEMBER 2009 VOLUME I, ISSUE 1 Global Mass Transit Report Information and analysis on the global mass transit industry

Contactless Ticketing in Mass Transit Mass Transit in

A win-win solution for all stakeholders Governments invest heavily in transport infrastructure ith its myriad of advantages such as lower transaction costs, faster transaction speeds and multi-functionality, W s governments around acknowledge the contactless smart ticketing is the future of the global mass- important role that plays in improving the transportation industry. Already operational in key metropolitan A quality of life, there is a global trend for increased investment in areas such as , London, Seoul, Washington D.C. and this important infrastructure sector. A commitment to upgrade , contactless smart ticketing offers a win-win solution and expand mass transit systems has risen across the Americas, for transit operators and users, contactless technology developers , Asia, and now in Africa as well. Taking the lead in Africa and financial institutions. is its biggest economy South Africa. Today, virtually all transit-fare payment systems in the For many years, South Africa boasted of the best transport delivery and procurement stages are opting for contactless infrastructure in the African continent. However, over the last ticketing as the primary medium. ’s , which few years the transport infrastructure has been deteriorating. This is expected to become operational in 2011, will be equipped with is essentially owing to short sightedness and lack of continued a system based on contactless technology with reusable smart investment. It is only now that the transport sector has begun tickets. attracting much needed attention. It is being recognised as a key In September 2009, Societe de Transport de (STM) contributor to South Africa’s competitiveness in global markets selected smart card solutions provider, Oberthur Technologies, and a crucial engine for social and economic development. This to supply contactless cards for the public transport network of recognition and the imminent 2010 FIFA World Cup have instilled

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Features Preferred alternative for providing a sustainable • Contactless Ticketing in Mass Transit ...... 1 • Mass Transit in South Africa ...... 1 solution to urban mobility • -Trains in Europe ...... 1 News ail-based transport is becoming increasingly popular in many • ...... 7 REuropean countries to meet the mobility demands of growing • Latin America ...... 9 population and combat climate change. Tram-trains, a hybrid of • Asia Pacific ...... 12 • Europe ...... 16 and trains, is one of the preferred alternatives in this regard. • Middle East & Africa ...... 20 Tram-trains can run on existing rail lines as well as on the TA/TSO Focus street, sharing the route with other vehicles and allowing travel • MTR Corporation Limited ...... 22 within towns and and between them. They are typically Policy Review powered by overhead electric cables and, less frequently, by • ...... 24 diesel. Tram-trains are being developed to run as diesel/electric hybrids. They are popular because they can ease congestion and Spotlight • GCC Metro Plans ...... 25 provide new mobility options in peri-urban areas. They are also affordable, reliable, safe and environmentally-friendly. Some of Data & Statistics the advantages of tram-trains are as follows: USA: Key characteristics for transit agencies operating • ...... 28 • These systems can operate on existing -centre tram lines • Heavy Rail ...... 29 or disused freight lines, avoiding the need for new infrastructure. • ...... 30 Finance ...... 31 • As they are lightweight, the systems offer advantages over Project Update ...... 37 heavy rail in terms of lower operating costs, maintenance, and Company News ...... 44 consumption. Tenders & Contracts ...... 52 (continued on page 6)

www.globalmasstransit.net Features Contactless Smart Ticketing in Mass Current Scenario Transit (Contd...) Hong Kong’s is considered one of the successful electronic cash systems in the world based on acceptance rate. There are over 17 million Octopus cards in circulation which is more than double Hong Kong’s population Montreal, Canada. Oberthur Technologies will deliver the e- of 7 million, as the cards are popular with both tourists and ticketing smart cards over the next four years throughout the residents. Greater Montreal area and Quebec. The Octopus card is based on an open-loop-transit-network Across the globe, contactless ticketing is replacing paper and model. The card operator, Octopus Card Limited, uses its own magnetic formats. In July 2009, Affiliated Computer Services won payment network to process fare transactions. Customers can a 14-year USD200-million contract from Protransporte to provide refill the transit cards with cash, credit or debit cards at fare- Peru’s capital Lima with a contactless ticketing system for the vending machines, terminals at participating retail outlets, or city’s buses. The company will supply and operate a fully through automatic deduction from a credit card offered by one integrated fleet management and ticketing application for the of 22 participating financial institutions. system in one of the busiest areas of Lima. The line is intended to carry over 700,000 passengers a day and The transit card is used to make payments at retail stores, ten similar ticketing systems are expected to be installed over parking lots, service stations, vending machines, etc. The Octopus the next few years. card can also be used as an access device to enter participating schools, residences and office buildings. In August 2009, a bus service operated by the University of the West of (UWE) introduced a smartcard system, as London has one of the largest contactless smart card an alternative to cash, for buying bus tickets. Ulink, operated by initiatives in the world. The Oyster card, introduced by Transport the university in conjunction with Wessex Connect, became the for London (TfL) is used for over 70 per cent of the 9 million first bus service in the city to launch such an initiative. journeys made on London’s public transport system every day. More than 10 million Oyster cards are in use today. Technology Used The Oyster card is based on the open-loop-card-network model. Oyster cards can be obtained from the network of Oyster Ticket The contactless smart card is a credit-card-sized card with an Stops across London. In 2007, TfL and Barclays Bank launched a embedded antenna and short-range radio frequency new Barclay’s credit card called OnePulse that paired a standard identification chip (RFID tag). The RFID tag transfers data via credit card function with Oyster prepaid transit. radio waves when the consumer places the card within four inches of the reader. The Oyster and standard credit-debit payments are recorded separately on the card, using Oyster Pay as You Go for transit and These cards are secure as they are typically equipped with Visa Paywave for non-transit purchases. the ability to perform encryption and authentication processes. They also offer the benefits of reduced transaction costs and The huge demand created by mass-transit payment greater flexibility, convenience, durability and speed as they do applications has given a boost to the contactless industry in not require direct contact with the reader. The transaction speed, creating competition to come up with cost-effective new products about 150 milliseconds, reduces boarding time. The feature of and technology solutions. Of the key application areas for ‘interoperability’ in smart ticketing allows commuters to switch contactless cards such as government identity cards, banking, easily between different mass-transportation modes such as health care and mass transit, the contactless payment segment buses, tramways and trains. in mass transit is expected to grow the fastest. Contactless tickets also obviate the need for mechanical terminals, minimising costs associated with malfunction, misuse Emerging Trends and maintenance of equipment. Smart ticketing systems can Trials are presently underway to convert the SIM, used in mobile provide operators with valuable data on types of tickets used, communication networks, into contactless cards so that mobile travel patterns and passenger preferences, for better allocation phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) can be used for of resources, efficient scheduling, improved passenger safety, and transactions. targeted marketing, such as customer loyalty schemes. In June 2009, Turkish automatic fare collection company, E- Each contactless ticketing solution is a combination of a selected On Innovations for providing such a payment system and a network. Contactless payment systems transportation payment solution for the city of . Buses may be closed-loop or open-loop. The closed-loop system uses a serving the area are being equipped with the new system which stored-value card that is limited to payment of transit services. allows customers to use their cell phones or PDAs for payment. An open-loop system includes the option for payments to If successful, the project is expected to be expanded to other cities businesses other than the transit agency issuing the card. in . Similarly, the network can be a transit or card network. In a Reusable contactless smart cards are emerging as the green transit-network, the transit card operator sets up and operates its solution in cost saving and environmental impacts compared to payment system. The card-network includes card companies such the hundreds of millions of disposable paper tickets generated as Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express. Globally, traditionally. The world’s first RFID-based scheme for reusable the trends are towards open-loop-transit-networks and open-loop- ticketing in mass transportation came live in July 2009 in Seoul, card-networks. , and is expected to save USD2.4 million per year. In

2 Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 Features the new system, automated vending machines issue a single journey ticket in exchange for a passenger’s payment plus a USD0.40 deposit for the ticket. Each ticket contains a contactless Recent Smartcard Initiatives memory chip, which allows the cards to be returned and re-issued to new passengers. Asia-Pacific

The aims to have a plan for the national Tasmania: Metro Tasmania has introduced a smart ticketing system by the end of this year that lets people rechargeable smart card ticketing system, Greencard, in use their mobile phones or smart cards to pay for travel across cities of Launceston, Burnie, and Hobart. public transport systems throughout the country. The government calculates such a system could save USD4.3 billion per year Australia: The Victorian government plans to deploy through convenience and the reduced use of motor vehicles. the Myki ticketing system in all trains, trams and buses by December 2009 at an estimated cost of AUD1.4 billion. Challenges South Korea: Seoul Subway, in partnership with STMicroelectronics, launched the world’s first reusable While contactless smart ticketing holds tremendous potential, it smart cards called Single Journey Tickets which save cost also faces challenges of standardisation and cost in deployment. of over 450 million printed paper tickets annually. The various stakeholders, such as multiple transit providers (e.g., buses, trams, trains), government, card issuers, retail merchants Europe and technology vendors need to agree on a standard interoperability platform. : Telefónica O2 has partnered with Currently, the International Standards Organization’s ISO/ Touch&Travel to introduce mobile ticketing services for IEC 14443 is the most widely adopted contactless standard in national railway group . the world. The high cost of investment also raises obstacles in UK: Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority implementation of contactless technology. In Australia, Victoria’s received Department of Transport funding to install a smart USD1 billion transit smartcard Myki which aims to provide card ticketing system by 2012. commuters with a single ticket for trams, trains and buses continues to face challenges in standardisation and cost. : Gemalto is providing contactless transport cards called MOBIB in Brussels. The huge demand created by mass-transit Middle East and Africa payment applications has given a boost to the contactless industry in creating competition to UAE: Roads and Transport Authority launched the NoI Card for Metro as part of its new integrated fare come up with cost-effective new products and collection system. Affiliated Computer Services will supply technology solutions. a 100 per cent contactless ticketing system for the Persian Gulf’s first tram line in Dubai, scheduled to run in early 2011. Way Forward

Even so, the increasing cost of maintaining and replacing North America equipment is motivating transit agencies to consider smart ticketing implementation more seriously. The cost of the card is Canada: Montreal Transit Corporation has selected less than 10 per cent of the ticketing cost and can be amortised smart card solutions provider, Oberthur Technologies, for over the life span of the card. supplying contactless cards for its public transport network for the next four years throughout the Greater Montreal area Contactless technology in mass transit has paved the way for and Quebec. combining public transit payments with everyday retail purchases. Collectively, small-value payments, also known as USA: Miami-Dade Transit introduced the contactless micro- or low-value payments, represent a big revenue smartcard called EASY Card system and Spokane Transit opportunity for the retail and financial industries. Retail Authority introduced the GO SmartCard, and King Country payments integrated with a transit card also provide additional Metro/Sound Transit has introduced the ORCA Card, among revenue streams for transit operators. various other initiatives. Both the transit and financial industries are keen to understand the opportunities and challenges of using contactless Latin America payment. Recent developments in the mass transit and financial Uruguay: The ministry of transport and public works is payments industries have created opportunities for convergence improving the smart card system on Montevideo’s mass and collaboration. Transit agencies will need to develop transport network. requirements as the contactless, retail and financial industries focus on expanding technology and introducing changes in Peru: Affiliated Computer Services has won USD200 business practices. With such strong interest, it is expected that million contract to provide technology solutions for the bus the current implementations will lead to win-win solutions that line ticketing system in Lima. deliver value to all participants in the transit payment process.

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Mass Transit in South Africa (Contd...) constructing this link. The project is being constructed in two phases with completion dates of 2010 and 2011, respectively. It is over 60 per cent complete. a sense of urgency in the government which is now investing heavily in improving transport infrastructure. is expected to significantly bring down the travel time and cost on the highly congested - The government is undertaking ZAR13.6 billion worth of corridor and also reduce motorised transport. It will save an projects specifically for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and using this estimated 585,000 vehicle km per day and reduce congestion by event to spur a major change in South Africa’s image in the world about 20 per cent. It will also expand the public transport services through investments in passenger rail upgrades, bus rapid transit through dedicated, exclusive bus and minibus taxi feeder and (BRT) systems, taxi recapitalisation programmes, and airport- distribution services. Apart from that, the project is expected to city links. These projects collectively constitute nothing short of contribute to the socio-economic development of the province a revolution in the country’s public transport sector. through job creation, skill development, local procurement and The latest step in this revolution was the launch of the technology transfer. Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) in April this year. Gautrain has been often criticised as serving only the interests PRASA focuses on improving passenger rail services, which of rich travelers. However, the fact remains that no major city previously fell under which is now concentrating on can claim to be modern and functional unless it offers an efficient freight rail services. public transport system. This has been a major weakness in all One of the key objectives of PRASA is to bring a balance to of South Africa’s metros and large cities. At least with its state- the country’s public transport system. The organisation has of-the-art Gautrain link, Johannesburg can hope to be a truly announced an investment plan of ZAR25 billion over the next international city. three years. Of this total planned investment, ZAR14.7 billion Johannesburg has achieved another milestone in developing will be spent on capital projects such as rolling stock, signalling the mass transit systems by launching the first phase of its BRT projects, technology infrastructure, and station upgrades. The system in September 2009. Named “Rea Vaya”, the new system remaining investment will go into operations and system is initially running 18 hours a day between the historic city of enhancements. Soweto and central Johannesburg. Apart from this, ZAR1.75 billion is being spent on the The BRT system is being implemented in phases. In all, it passenger rail sector in preparation for the World Cup. Major comprises 126 km of trunk routes and 150 bus stations located station upgrades have begun at Cape Town, Nasrec, 500 metres apart. Phase 1 has been implemented and comprises Mabopane, Doornfontein and Orlando stations. In addition, 25 km and 20 stations. Phase 2, which will be implemented in PRASA is building new stations at Bridge City (eThekwini), 2010 for the World Cup, comprises 86 km and 102 stations. The Moses Mabhida (eThekwini), Windermere (Cape Town) and two phases are estimated to cost ZAR2 billion, with most of the (Johannesburg). The 2010 plan also includes the funding coming from the national Public Transport Infrastructure refurbishment of 2,000 train coaches. and Systems Fund (PTIF). Phase 3, which comprises extension These efforts are part of the government’s “Turn-Around to 122 km and 150 stations, is scheduled for completion in 2013. Strategy”, launched couple of years ago, aimed at arresting the BRT systems are also being rolled out in other cities and decline in the country’s passenger rail services. The work will be metros of South Africa. It is expected that by June 2010, BRT conducted in three phases until 2030. The period 2007-2010 is systems will be operational in Tshwane (Pretoria), Nelson the turnaround phase in which short-term improvements are Mandela Bay (Port Elizabeth) and Cape Town. Tshwane plans to being carried out in various regions. The investments under this have the first of its two planned BRT lines running by 2010. The phase are intended to make an immediate impact. In the second system will comprise 37 km of BRT lanes, 17 stations and a fleet phase (2011-2014), new rolling stock will be introduced to of 58 vehicles. Nelson Mandela Bay plans to implement an accommodate the increase in passenger numbers. This phase will integrated network across the entire city with ZAR900 million lead to a growth phase (2015-2030) when the rail network will committed until 2010. Cape Town will deploy a BRT trunk and be expanded significantly. feeder system (25 trunk stations and 139 feeder stops) and has Several new passenger rail line projects are also being planned committed ZAR1.5 billion by 2010. in South Africa. These include the ZAR9.7 billion, 140 km By 2010, the four cities of Johannesburg, Cape Town, Tshwane commuter rail line along the increasingly busy Moloto corridor and Nelson Mandela Bay are expected to have up to 170 km of between Pretoria and Siyabuswa in Mpumalanga province and BRT systems. A further 287 km is expected to be developed by a high-speed train between Johannesburg and Durban. A project 2014, adding the cities of Ekurhuleni (in ), Buffalo City to link Cape Town International Airport with the city centre is and Durban. Another 1,000 km will be developed by 2025, adding also being reviewed. PRASA’s management has indicated that it the cities of Mangaung (Bloemfontein), Rustenburg and is keen to pursue these developments in partnership with the Polokwane. This amounts to a total of approximately 1,400 private sector. kilometres by 2025. This might be a fraction of the hundreds of Serving as a catalyst for much of the current revival of public thousands of kilometres of public transport routes in South Africa, transport in South Africa is the legendary Gautrain project, an but is still a significant achievement in modernising the mass 80 km transit link between Pretoria and Johannesburg’s transit systems in a country which has primarily depended upon international airport in Gauteng province. The ZAR25 billion taxi services. project is the biggest public private partnership in South Africa. As in any revolution, there are strong forces resisting the Bombela, a consortium comprising foreign firms (Bombardier change. In South Africa there is an ongoing opposition to BRT and Bouygues) and local firms (Murray and Roberts) is

4 Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 Features from the taxi operators who fear job and business losses. The government is in constant negotiations with the taxi industry Turn-Around Strategy for National Passenger Rail System and has given assurances that only about 5 per cent of the national taxi fleet may be affected by the BRTs in the four cities by 2012. The government has also offered jobs on BRTs to the taxi Turnaround Phase: 2007-2010 operators. • Refurbish 2,000 rail coaches by 2010 While Gautrain and BRT are the new modes being developed • Improve operational efficiencies in the country, the existing taxi/minibus industry is also being revamped to improve the public transport system. A total of • Improve service levels through increase in frequency ZAR7.7 billion has been allocated for the Taxi Recapitalisation and reliability Programme. The government is spending millions to repair old • Improve security for commuters and unsafe taxis under this programme. Up till June 2009, more than 27,800 old taxi vehicles had been scrapped and over ZAR1.4 Recovery Phase: 2010-2013 billion paid out to operators. The taxi industry got a boost recently • Grow share of the public transport market when a South African bank ABSA and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) launched an offer under which • Aim for revenue to contribute 50 per cent of ABSA will provide up to ZAR300 million in funding to emerging operational costs taxi operators. The IDC has agreed to underwrite up to 50 per • Develop network to enhance operations cent of any losses incurred by ABSA, if clients financed under the scheme default on their payments. • Increase private sector involvement While there remains much work to be done and many • Meet UN Millennium Development Goals challenges to be overcome, South Africa’s neglected public Growth Phase: 2014-2020 transport system is finally showing signs of improvement after years of underinvestment and decay. With the measures outlined • Implement 2020 Vision of having passenger rail above, South Africa aims to transform its public transport sector corridors at the heart of an Integrated Mass Rapid to create an integrated, intermodal solution that is both efficient Transport Network and seamless. The strategy is premised on greater integration • Target for higher market share between buses, taxis, and rail, and outlines a vision for a single ticket system across various modes of transport and across metropolitan and provincial boundaries.(1 South African Rand Source: PRASA [ZAR] = 0.1317USD). Turn-Around Strategy for National Passenger Rail System

Source: PRASA

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Tram-Trains in Europe (Contd...) In , , two new routes have been identified for tram- train services. The tram-trains will be electrically powered and are likely to become operational by 2010. Of the two routes, one • They generate less noise and air pollution. will serve the TGV station at Part-Dieu and Lyon St. Exbury • The combination of lower operating costs and higher revenues airport to the east and another will serve suburbs to the west. helps to keep fares low. In the UK, by 2011, five new tram-trains are scheduled to • New stations can be added to routes without increasing end- start trial operations connecting Huddersfield, , and to-end journey times as tram-trains have better acceleration/ . The trial operations, in partnership between the deceleration than heavy rail. , and , will examine the environmental impact, operating costs, technical Several tram-based projects are being implemented in Europe. suitability, and the system’s popularity with passengers. Plans Germany is planning a tram-train project in Braunschweig. Work to evaluate the additional benefits of extending the service on on the USD347.17 million project is expected to be begin by 2009- the system, under the second trial phase, end. The project is likely to use technology which allows are also on the anvil. vehicles to run on the mainline rail network as well as on the city tramway network. In European countries where tram-train projects have been started, a significant increase in ridership has been seen. Another The new service will provide high frequency connectivity to benefit has been increased land prices in the surrounding areas. Salzitter, to the south of Braunschweig, as well as direct, on-street journeys from the to the city centre for travellers The spread of will eventually depend upon from the south east and northern suburbs. the system’s performance with respect to cost, safety and environmental efficiency. Given the technology required to run The federal government is likely to extend 60 per cent of the them, tram-train systems may cost more than conventional trains project cost, and about 22.5 per cent will be contributed by or trams but governments will weigh up these costs against the Niedersachen Land (Lower Saxony State). benefits to their citizens and the environment. 

Tram-Train Project: Brest Métropole Océane, France

A tram-train project is currently being implemented at Brest million, 19 per cent), civil engineering works (USD14.9 Métropole Océane (BMO). The 14.3 km long public transpor- million, 3 per cent), and roadbed infrastructures and facilities tation system, with 27 stations, each placed at a distance of (USD235.42 million, 53 per cent). about 500 metres, aims to connect residential areas to the Public transport systems such as the buses, tramways, and business sector of the town. subways are financed through a transport tax. The tax for The system is expected to cater to 27 per cent of the public transport, charged at the rate of 1.65 per cent, is levied population, carrying about 45,000 passengers per day. Given on all public and private sector establishments with more than that it will have the right-of-way at all intersections and will nine salaried employees. The system is also financed through run in a separate right-of-way lane, it is expected to be faster. loans (to be reimbursed by the tax), and subsidies (state, These electrically-powered tram-trains will eliminate the regional council, general council, European ). problems of parking, petrol costs, delays, and greenhouse To encourage people to use the tram system, park-and- gas emissions. ride locations will be set up at the end of the line or at strategic The low-floor tram project, levelled with the platform, will points in the city so that they can park their cars easily and be accessible without any step up or down. There will also hop onto the tram. At the moment, 200 such places can be be ramps and wide corridors to help pregnant women, the found in Kergaradec, Froutven and Montbarey and 300 in elderly, and people with strollers or wheelchairs. Bicycles will Square. be accepted in the tramway outside peak traffic times. The Like all transport projects, the tram project is also expected trains will run at 20 km per hour. to have several multiplier effects. To assess the impact, BMO, To seamlessly mesh the different forms of transport, the in association with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, bus network will be restructured and improved, with the has created a Socioeconomic Observatory to study economic objective of increasing the ridership by 27 per cent. New links development along the proposed alignment. will be established, more bus services will be provided and The project is expected to contribute to the development bus schedules will be altered to dovetail with the tram of Brest and help local shops and businesses to flourish. timings. Estimates suggest that it may increase downtown commercial Construction is slated to begin towards the end of 2009. activities, resulting in a 30 per cent rise in the number of The trial operations are expected to begin by 2011, and the shoppers in places such as and Strasbourg. project is expected to be commissioned by mid-2012. With more pedestrians around, new shops are expected The project is estimated to require an investment of about to open. A special committee is envisaged, in partnership with USD444 million and can be broken down into five major the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, to help these new components: engineering studies and project management shops come up. The committee will include businessmen, (USD89.4 million, 20 per cent), depot maintenance facility shopkeepers, craftsmen, and professionals who work along (USD22.35 million, 5 per cent), rolling stock (USD81.95 the alignment.

6 Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 News

recently announced federal-provincial- in federal funds to improve intermodal NORTH AMERICA territorial working group conducts a stations and expand local bus services. comprehensive review of the policy (More in Finance) GE and EMD win locomotive order from framework governing passenger bus Canadian Railway services in Canada. New York MTA projects face cost Canadian National Railway (CNR) has had earlier overruns and delay placed an order for 70 new high- threatened to stop services as they were horsepower locomotives from GE making losses and were not being All five of New York Metropolitan Transit Transportation and Electro-Motive Diesel subsidised by the government. Agency’s (MTA) “mega” mass- transit (EMD). (More in Company News) projects will cost more than projected. US DOT allocates over USD10 million to Implementation of a public address Thales supplies communications NFTA for hybrid buses system for part of the subway system has solution to been delayed more than four years to The US Department of Transportation 2010. There is also an eight-month delay France-based rail technology solutions (DOT) has granted over USD10 million in replacing 1,280 subway cars. provider Thales has implemented its to the Niagara Frontier Transportation communications-based train control Authority (NFTA) to purchase hybrid The cost of building the Fulton Street solution for the new rail line, the Canada buses in Buffalo to improve the city’s pub- Station has increased by around 90 per Line, in , British Columbia. lic transit system. (More in Finance) cent over the initial estimates and costs (More in Company News) of other mega-projects are slated to be 6- Port Authority grants signalling 15 per cent above initial estimates. Avalon Rail receives contracts for PATH train system The Second Avenue subway, linking renewal contract from VIA Rail Canada the with midtown The Port Authority of New York and New Manhattan’s Grand Central Station, has VIA Rail Canada has awarded a CAD19.5 Jersey has authorised over USD340 also been delayed by at least a year to million contract to Avalon Rail for million worth of contracts to replace the 2015. reconfiguring 12 of its passenger cars outdated mechanical train controls on the (eight Chateau sleeping cars and four 101-year-old Port Authority Trans- New York is facing a multibillion- Park sleeper-dome-lounge cars) used on Hudson (PATH) train system. dollar gap in its current budget (2009- its western transcontinental train, the 2010)and cannot afford the mass transit The overall signal project is expected Canadian. (More in Company News) agency’s proposed five-year USD28.5 to cost USD580 million and is part of Port billion capital plan. Authority’s USD3.3 billion plan to TTC to postpone projects due to CAD848 modernise the entire PATH system. The New York Metropolitan Transit million spending cuts The modernisation plans also include Authorities (MTA) recently approved a draft version of its next five-year capital The government in Canada has procurement of a new 340-car train fleet program, costing USD28 billion (of which demanded a reduction in Toronto Transit and 10-car platforms on the Newark to USD10 billion is required for the project Corporation’s (TTC) spending plans, World Trade Center line. to be fully funded). (More in Finance) outlined in its recently approved ten-year So far, a USD321 million contract has capital budget of CAD848 million. (More been awarded to a consortium led by in Finance) German train equipment supplier, NYSERDA helps finance NFTA’s hybrid bus , for the design, manufacture and procurement installation of the new signal technology. Greyhound Canada to maintain bus The New York State Energy Research and services in Manitoba The consortium also includes Systems and D/A Builders. Development Authority has granted USD1.1 million to the Niagara-Frontier Greyhound Canada has confirmed it will A USD21 million professional Transportation Authority (NFTA) for continue to run passenger bus services in management contract was also awarded purchasing eight diesel hybrid-electric the Manitoba province. This is in light of to Booz, Allen, Hamilton to help oversee buses. These will be operated in Erie and its discussions with the Government of the signal project. Niagara counties in Canada. (More in Manitoba, which have been “positive” Finance) and “productive”. Additionally, a USD2 million contract was given to Rail Safety Consulting, Both the government and Greyhound which will provide an independent Virginia applies for funding for high Canada have expressed their assessment and certification of safety commitment to reach an agreement and speed rail corridor standards for the project. are likely to decide on some combination The government of Virginia has submit- of direct investment and a reduction in ted its second application to the federal services. US government grants USD8 million to authorities for USD1.8 billion under the When confirmed, this arrangement New Jersey rapid transit authorities American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to develop the I-95 Southeast High will serve as a short-term solution to The US Department of Transportation has Speed Rail Corridor. (More in Finance) ensure service continues, while the awarded New Jersey over USD8 million

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Keolis to run VRE’s train system AT&T offers wireless coverage on SEPTA transport authorities to launch Market-Frankford and Broad Street rail project France-based high-speed rail-service Subway lines provider, Rail Services America, The US Federal Transit has won the bid to operate and maintain AT&T has completed its wireless network Administration (FTA) has approved Virginia Railway Express (VRE) trains. for providing street-to-platform coverage Honolulu’s proposed rail transit system. The contract may be renewed twice, for for its Broad Street Subway and Market- The project can enter the next phase of five years each time. Bombardier Frankford lines, operated by the preliminary engineering and is now Transportation and (with which Southeastern Pennsylvania eligible for nearly USD1.5 billion worth it had a 17-year partnership) had also Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in of federal funds. City officials, who had been looking to acquire the contract. Philadelphia region of Pennsylvania, expected to launch the project in Amtrak had submitted a higher bid USA. (More in Company News) December 2009, will now start working at USD17.2 million a year, plus USD2.2 on refining engineering and construction schedules, and financial planning. million in first-year transition costs Sacramento begins work on airport light compared to Keolis’ bid of USD16.9 rail extension The project involves constructing a 20- million a year, with USD1.7 million in mile elevated rail line that will connect transition costs. However, VRE based its The transport authorities of California West O‘ahu with choice on several parameters including state capital Sacramento have begun and . The system customer service expectations. constructing the first 1.8 km segment of features electric, steel-wheel trains the extension from Downtown capable of carrying more than 300 Keolis is slated to begin operating to Natomas airport, designated the Green passengers each. services in July 2010 until 2015 and will Line. The line, which is estimated to cost staff VRE trains with conductors, USD44 million, will run north along 7th locomotive engineers and maintenance Street from H Street, where it diverges Aecom wins USD19 million contract from workers. However, VRE’s from the existing spur to the Amtrak DART recommendation must be approved by station. The line is expected to start the Northern Virginia and the Potomac The Area Rapid Transit (DART) operating services in November 2010. The and Rappahannock Transportation authority has awarded a USD19.3 million next segment is projected to open in 2014. Commissions (PRTC) before the contract contract to technology provider, Aecom Consequently, after three years, the final can be awarded. Technology, for supplying project control, link to the airport, which lies northwest system integration and staff support of the city centre, will be completed. services for the second phase of its light PRTC receives USD8.87 million federal rail expansion project. (More in Company grant to procure 3 locomotives for VRE Los Angeles MTA approves 30-year urban News) The US Department of Transportation has mass-transit programme awarded an USD8.87 million grant to the Los Angeles County’s Metropolitan Expiry of US federal law funding mass Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Authority (MTA) has transit may result in cancellations of Transportation Commission (PRTC). approved a 30-year USD300 billion projects (More in Finance) programme to undertake a series of A US federal law which finances the bulk projects to reduce congestion in the city. of mass transit projects has expired, Amtrak starts passenger train services (More in Finance) resulting in the possible cancellation of in Virginia projects worth USD3 billion. (More in The first government-backed passenger Los Angeles MTA submits rail project Finance) train in Virginia, Amtrak’s northeast proposals for federal funding regional line, has begun services. The The Los Angeles County’s Metropolitan Authorities mulling over launch of a new train will connect Lynchburg with Transportation Authority (MTA) will regional transit authority in Boston via Washington and will operate submit the plans for the Westside Los on a trial basis for three years. There will The government of Detroit city in USA is Angeles subway expansion and light-rail be stops in Charlottesville, Culpeper, considering a bill to establish a mass link through downtown Los Angeles. Manassas and Alexandria and transit authority to finance and operate a (More in Finance) connections may be made to Washington regional system of buses and trains at an for New York and Boston. estimated cost of USD10.5 billion over 25 Siemens wins light-rail contract from years. San Diego MTS Fisher Coachworks to provide hybrid Much of the local system will be buses in Michigan The San Diego Metropolitan Transit federally funded with an estimated base System (MTS) has granted a two-year operating cost of USD293 million. The Mass Transportation Authority in Flint, USD205.2 million contract to Germany- authority will implement 406 miles of Michigan, USA (MTA Flint) will procure based transport equipment provider improved buses and routes, light rail and two Fisher Coachworks all-electric, plug- Siemens for providing 57 new low-floor, commuter trains. The deputies are in hybrid mass transit buses to be light-rail vehicles. (More in Company scheduled to work on the bill on October deployed in 2010. (More in Company News) News) 7, 2009.

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Amtrak study estimates Pioneer line Rail which connects the Miami-Fort the line, from Union Station downtown project to cost over USD400 million Lauderdale-West Palm Beach corridor. to East Los Angeles carried out by (More in Finance) Eastside LRT Constructors over five An Amtrak study estimates that it may years, is almost complete. cost over USD400 million to restart high speed rail services on the Pioneer Route North Carolina applies for USD5 billion The section will cover eight new in Idaho, which runs through Boise and worth of high speed rail projects stations and 1.7 miles of underground Pocatello on its way from Denver, track. The line will increase the city metro The North Carolina Department of Colorado to Seattle, Washington, USA. rail length to a total of 79 miles. The Metro Transportation has submitted USD5 (More in Finance) Gold Line of the Los Angeles County billion worth of applications for high- Metro Rail is the newest rail addition to speed rail projects. (More in Finance) the metro system. Currently, it operates Federal funds to launch zero emission between Downtown Los Angeles and buses in Flint, Michigan Railhead Vision Systems to deploy LDVR eastern Pasadena. The US federal government has allocated in locomotives USD100 million to the Mass Transport- to try new anti-crash Southern California’s railroad system ation Authority in Flint, Michigan to system by ARINC operator, Metrolink, intends to install an procure two zero-emission hybrid buses inward and outward-facing video camera (Fisher Coachworks GTB-40 all-electric, The Washington transit agency will system, Locomotive Digital Video plug-in) in 2010. (More in Finance) conduct trial of new anti-crash software Recorder (LDVR) in its locomotives. (More on its network. (More in Company News) in Company News) Norfolk Southern introduces new eco- friendly locomotive Kiewit Pacific receives contract for Granite Construction JV wins Long Island Honolulu’s rail transit construction Norfolk Southern has launched an Rail Project experimental 1,500 hp battery shunting The government has granted a New York Metropolitan Transport locomotive in USA. The locomotive (GP38 USD482.9 million contract to construction Authority (MTA) Capital Construction NS999) does not have an onboard power and engineering firm, Kiewit Pacific, for has awarded a USD659 million contract plant and instead charges its 1,080 lead- the first phase of Honolulu’s rail transit to a Granite Construction-led joint acid 12 V cells by plugging the locomotive project. (More in Company News) venture (JV) to build a link from into an external supply. Queens to Grand Central Terminal in The locomotive has been developed Manhattan. (More in Company News) in collaboration with the US Department LATIN AMERICA of Energy, the Federal Railroad IBM to provide software for Washington Administration and Pennsylvania State Helios wins electric train consultancy Metro University. The project has received contract from ProInversión USD1.3 million of federal funding. The Washington Metropolitan Area Peru-based private investment promotion Transit Authority (WMATA) is using IBM The Brookville Equipment agency ProInversión has granted a software to monitor its buses, trains, and Corporation has provided traction control contract to Peru-based consultancy firm related equipment to assess the exact systems and regeneration technology Helios to help in the concession process condition and location of all its assets. which uses energy recovered during for Lima’s electric train system project. (More in Company News) braking to recharge the battery and (More in Company News) enables the locomotive to run three shifts. US DOT to allocate USD142.7 million to World Bank grants USD150 million to IBM to modernise San Francisco Bay Pennsylvania transport projects urban transport authorities Area Rapid Transit (BART) The US Department of Transportation The World Bank has granted a 30-year The San Francisco (DOT) will allocate USD142.7 million in USD150 million loan (with five-year (BART) has deployed IBM software to federal funds from the American grace) to support Argentina metropolitan manage the product purchase, inventory- Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) area’s urban transport project, which aims tracking, and maintenance systems on 2009 to transportation projects in trains, stations, equipment and Pennsylvania. (More in Finance) to improve the urban transit systems by operations. (More in Company News) strengthening the decision-making framework and prioritising public Los Angeles Metro Gold Line Eastside to transport development. (More in Finance) Florida seeks federal funds for building launch services in November commuter rail lines The USD898 million Metro Gold Line Volvo wins bus orders from Grupo Ruas Three of Florida’s key urban cities, Eastside project in Los Angeles is almost and Transmilenio Jacksonville, Tampa-St. Petersburg, and complete and the line will start operating Orlando, are seeking federal funds for services from mid-November. Brazil-based bus operator, Grupo Ruas, building commuter rail lines like the Tri- Construction on the 6-mile extension of has ordered 100 bi-articulated Volvo

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B9SALF buses from Volvo Buses. (More Odebrecht Perú to place bid for USD400 Pöyry-Cal y Mayor-Geo Consult in Company News) million electric train project tender consortium win metro consultancy contract Brazil-based construction firm subsidiary, Rio de Janeiro to invest USD5.5 billion in Odebrecht Perú, is likely to bid for a The Industrial Development Bank (IDB) transport projects USD400 million tender for carrying out and Andean Development Corporation the civil and electromechanical works on Corporcion Andina de Fomento (CAF) The government of Rio de Janeiro intends the mass transport electric train project have awarded a USD2 million to invest USD5.5 billion in transportation in Lima and Callao. (More in Company consultancy contract for the Panama City projects ahead of the 2016 Olympic News) subway. Games. (More in Finance) The contract has been awarded to a Invensys and Infoglobal receive São Paulo to launch USD1.85 billion consortium consisting of engineering and contract to upgrade Sao Paulo metro consulting firms, Swiss-based Poyry, tender lines Mexico-based Cal y Mayor and Panama- The state government of São Paulo based Geo Consult. (More in Company Brazil metro operator, Companhia intends to launch a tender to construct News) Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos metro (a mono rail line) by October (CPTM), has granted a EUR280 million end. The 21 km monorail line, connecting contract to a consortium consisting of UK- IDB grants USD1 million for metro feeder Congonhas airport to Morumbi , based railway control and bus system in Santo Domingo is estimated to cost USD1.85 billion and communications systems provider is part of the state’s investment plan for The Industrial Development Bank (IDB) Invensys Rail, Brazil-based engineering the 2014 FIFA World Cup. has granted USD1 million in non-reim- company Montagens e Projetos Especiais bursable funds out of its infrastructure The project is divided into three (MPE), and -based telecom fund to the Dominican Republic. phases and the first phase, linking São specialist Infoglobal. (More in Company Judas and Congonhas, will News) The fund is aimed at aiding the design be ready in December 2010. The full line and implementation of an integrated should be completed by 2012. Minas Gerais government to implement feeder bus system for Santo Domingo’s metro in the Dominican Republic. (More The state government has requested new transport system in Belo Horizonte in Finance) BRL2.4 billion from the federal government’s growth acceleration plan, The Minas Gerais state government in Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento, Brazil is exploring options for implement- Costa Rica to launch tender for TREM for the project. ing a new transport system in the Serra project Verde neighborhood of the capital Belo (1 Brazilian Real [BRL] = 0.5823 USD) Horizonte. Authorities are contemplating The Transport and Public Works Ministry different options such as light-rail transit of Costa Rica has introduced its Brazil’s plans for USD19 billion bullet (LRT), a subway or bus rapid transport metropolitan electric tram rail concession train facing trouble system. tender draft. The LRT, if implemented, will operate The tender, which will be launched The Brazilian government’s proposed five on biodiesel and run on the surface by the end of October, will grant the year plan to launch bullet train services obviating the need for a power grid. operator rights to operate three routes to link Río de Janeiro, São Paulo and connecting San José to Heredia province, Campinas may be scrapped due to copper Construction cost is expected to be BRL33 San Pedro and Sabana Sur. thefts. (More in Finance) million per km. A subway system, in contrast will cost The bids are due in February or March Brazil government to invest in mass BRL99 million per km. In total, taking 2010. The successful bidder will construct, operate and maintain the commuter train transit for Olympics preparation distances into account, the LRT will cost about BRL100 million while the subway services for 35 years. The Brazil government plans to spend will cost around BRL300 million. The project involves the construction over USD14 billion on an infrastructure of a double track railway line and the development program for the Olympics The results of the analysis will determine which model will be selected, supply of around 18 four-car trains 2016. The proposed projects include capable of transporting 340 passengers as well as any necessary mitigation upgrading the basic urban infrastructure each. of Rio de Janeiro, including the mass works, such as relocation of residents. Pre-feasibility studies carried out by transit systems. The transport system is necessary as Brazil-based firm Engevix indicate that the Transport and Public Works The government is likely to adopt the the total cost of the project is around Department is estimating increased public private partnership model for USD345 million. implementing the projects, as it recently demand that will arise from the transfer did for the expansion of of Sao of state government offices to the Serra The state will contribute USD100 Paulo’s Metro. There is a significant Verde neighborhood. million towards the reconstruction of the opportunity for foreign investment in line from Heredia and Montes de Oca and (1 Brazilian Real [BRL] = 0.5628USD) these fields. Sabana Sur, while the winning bidder

10 Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 News will put in the balance. The system is expected to start completed in a maximum of 18 months. operations in 2013. The initial 10 km section connecting Hospital de Heredia with Ferrocarril al Quito metro study to start in November Atlántico station in San José is expected Government approves USD441 million 2009 to start operations in 2013. loan for São Paulo metro extension Ecuador transport authorities and official Phases 2 and 3 linking Atlántico — The government of São Paulo has experts from Spain-based Metro San Pedro de Montes de Oca and approved a USD441 million loan from the have signed a cooperation agreement for Atlántico — Ferrocarril al Pacífico station national development bank, Banco conducting an initial study to develop a — Sabana Sur will follow a year later. Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico light-train mass-transport system in the Eleven international companies have e Social (BNDES) for extending of Ecuadorian capital Quito. the São Paulo Metro. (More in Company expressed interest in the project including Metro Madrid officials will provide News) , CAF, Siemens, Bombardier and assistance during the entire study, a South Korean consortium of Daebon spanning design to construction of the Engineering and . MTT enters into collaboration with Bio network. The study will be launched Bio regional government shortly. Manaus plans to start USD1.15 billion Chile’s transport and telecommunications In the first phase, expected to take 6- mass transport project next year ministry, Ministerio de Transportes y 8 months, the study will involve deciding Telecomunicaciones (MTT) has signed a the design and type of infrastructure for In preparation for the 2014 FIFA World the transport system. Cup, Brazil’s Amazonas state capital collaborative agreement with the Bio Bio Manaus will begin constructing a regional government to provide technical In the second phase of around two USD1.15 billion multimodal transport resources to improve planning, years, experts will draw up engineering system in 2010. (More in Finance) management and investment in the and technological plans for the electric region’s urban transportation systems. network. Chile MoP releases 2009-10 The agreement is valid from 2009 to Definitive studies for the route and concessions plans 2015 and is relevant in light of a state location of stations will be presented in subsidy recently approved in congress to the third phase, which will also include The Chilean Ministry of Public Works finance public transport infrastructure construction of the operating system. This (MoP) has proposed 18 projects worth expansion and improvement. is likely to take three more years. USD3.18 billion for 2009 and 2010. (More in Finance) Cesel-Pöyry wins civil and Panama government to launch bus fleet electromechanical works contract for renewal tender Costa Rica starts off bidding for USD345 Lima’s electric train million electric train project The Panama government is looking to Peru transportation and communications launch a tender for supplying and oper- Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Works and ministry, Ministerio de Transportes y ating a new fleet of buses in Panama City Transport (MOPT) has presented a draft Comunicaciones (MTC), has granted a in December 2009. of the bidding rules for the concessions USD13.4 million contract for overseeing of its metropolitan electric train (TREM) civil and electromechanical works on Bidding rules will be available from connecting San José to Heredia. Lima’s electric train expansion project. the national transit authority, La Autoridad del Tránsito y Transporte MOPT will launch the tender by end- The contract has been awarded to the Terrestre (ATTT), starting December 2009, October and will receive bids in February Peru---based consor- and interested bidders will have two or March 2010. tium Cesel-Pöyry. months to present proposals. The winning bidder will carry out the The consortium was the only The successful concessionaire will construction, operation and maintenance prequalified firm to come up with a have eight months to replace the city’s of the rail service for 35 years. financial offer. The estimated budget for entire bus fleet and will have to launch civil construction is USD431 million. operations within the year. Interested firms include Alstom, CAF, Siemens, Bombardier and a consortium Construction of the electric train link There will be two concessionaires, of Daebon Engineering and Hyundai from Atocongo bridge to Las Artes and each controlling 750 buses, of which the Rotem. from Las Artes to Hospital 2 de Mayo is state will purchase 420. expected to begin before the end of 2009, Brazil-based Engevix has estimated and the tender for the same is likely to be Currently, 1,500 second-hand school that the total project cost is USD345 launched shortly. buses imported from the US are operating million, of which USD100 million will be services in the city under the mass provided by the state and the balance by The Andean Development transport project Transmóvil. the winning bidder. Corporation, Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) is lending Peru USD300 The new project is slated to be The project involves the construction million to help fund the project. USD100 million cheaper than Transmóvil, of two parallel railways and the running as it involves the concessionaire buying of electric trains. The project is estimated to be the buses, rather than the government.

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ASIA PACIFIC Swaraj Mazda bags bus contract from will have to provide a detailed financial DMRC and technical proposal for the light rail system. Hyundai Rotem starts rolling out India-based Rail Corporation driverless metro cars (DMRC) has granted an INR600 million Phase 1 of the Gold Coast rapid transit contract to Swaraj Mazda for supplying project will link Griffith University with Hyundai Rotem has released its first 300 air-conditioned buses. (More in Broadbeach via Southport and Surfer’s driverless light metro car from its Company News) Paradise. The Queensland Government Changwon plant in South Korea. (More and the Gold Coast City Council are in Company News) working together to build a light rail SMRT appoints new chairman system between Helensvale and Coolangatta, which will link Tweed to the Hong Kong government approves XRL Mass Rapid Transit (SMRT) south of Brisbane. extension Corporation has announced that Mr Choo Chiau Beng has retired as chairman of the The Hong Kong Executive Council has transport operator. The Board has THSRC asks government to extend approved building of the Hong Kong appointed Mr Koh Yong Guan as handover period extension to the 140 km - chairman in his place. -Hong Kong Express Rail Link The loss-making Taiwan High Speed Rail (XRL) project. Corporation (THSRC) has asked the metro rail project to be delayed government for an extension on its The next step is to obtain funding contracted 35 year concession period in approval from the Finance Committee of The refusal of the Ministry of Finance of order to gather more time to repay its the Legislative Council. The 26 km India to implement the -rail debts. The system, built on the basis of a underground rail section, to be built at project as a centre-state joint-venture build-operate-transfer (BOT) model, an investment of HKD8.41 billion, will initiative is expected to delay the launch which has been operational for 2 years, run from West Kowloon in Hong Kong of the project. had incurred losses of USD2.18 billion as to Huanggang to finally connect to the So far, it has slowed down the pace of of June 2009 due to high interest XRL mainland section. the survey, land acquisition and payments, as well as depreciation and Construction of the underground relocation of utilities for the mass-rapid amortization costs. section is slated to begin by the end of transit system. The delay is also expected Meanwhile, the government’s role in 2009. to increase the total cost of the project by around 10 per cent each year. the company is expected to increase The XRL project involves building a shortly with THSRC holding an metro line connecting the Hong Kong Even though the Planning extraordinary shareholders’ meeting in terminus at West Kowloon to Shibi in Commission has approved the project, at November 2009 to elect new board , with intermediate stations at this stage, only the Cabinet Committee for directors and supervisors. The Futian, Longhua and Humen. The cost of Economic Affairs, headed by the Prime government is aiming to win nine out of railway works on the XRL is estimated at Minister, can overrule the finance the 15 seats during the board election. The HKD53.7 billion. ministry’s objection. government is also pursuing an agreement with a bank syndicate to (1 Hong Kong Dollar [HKD] = The state government is obtain lower interest rates on its loans. 0.1290USD) currently waiting for the central government to announce a fast-track scheme to acquire around 65 acres of land Railway negotiates loans KBR-Arup joint venture receives AUD4.3 for the project and to chart out a worth USD665 million billion contract rehabilitation package for those who surrender their land. Azerbaijan Railways is seeking a USD450 The Australian government has awarded million loan from the World Bank to a AUD4.3 billion contract to a joint The Kochi metro is a proposed mass- finance the changing of its energy venture between US-based engineering transit system for the city, expected to be systems, modernising its and construction company, Kellogg commissioned by 2011. The nodal agency communications and signal systems and Brown and Root (KBR), and London- for the project is the Kerala Industrial purchasing 50 electric locomotives based engineering-consulting Infrastructure Development Corporation. operating on alternating currents. (More organisation, Arup, to finalise planning in Finance News) for the Regional Rail Link project. (More GCRT to invite EoIs for light rail project in Company News) Australia’s Gold Coast Rapid Transit New fare system in ’s buses from Macau Light-Rail project cost increases (GCRT) authorities will soon invite 2010 expressions of interest (EoIs) from private by 80 per cent The Baku passenger transport agency in organisations for financing, designing Azerbaijan will implement plastic card The cost of the Macau Light-Rail project and operating the city’s light rail system. fare systems in big three-door-buses from in has escalated by about 80 per The project will operate via a public early 2010. The ticketing system will be cent from HKD526 million in 2007 to private partnership model. After fully introduced in medium-sized buses HKD940 million. (More in Finance News) submitting the EoIs, the selected bidders from early 2010. Meanwhile, the

12 Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 News transport authority will replace are expected to run at 6 min headways, NETS cards can also be used to pay for unsuitable small and medium buses with giving a nominal capacity of 700,000 transactions at other retail outlets. 1,000 big buses manufactured by South passengers a day. However, during the trial, the majority Korea-based company Daewoo. of the transactions accounted for transit (1 Pakistani Rupee [PKR] = 0.0119 USD) payments. Saudi bank to finance Pakistan Railways Bus procurement in Delhi faces delay project Global rail proposes USD8 billion rail Delhi Transport Corporation’s (DTC’s) plan A Saudi Bank has signed an agreement plan to add 1,000 semi-low-floor buses to with a consortium comprising its fleet before the Commonwealth Games Railway equipment manufacturer, Global Bombardier Transportation and China 2010 in India’s capital city has hit a Rail, along with its Chinese partner, Railways Signal and Communications roadblock. Ashok Leyland and Tata China Infraglobe Consortium, has Corporation to finance the first phase of Motors are charging rates which are submitted a USD8.3 billion plan to the a project to replace the signalling system deemed too high by the DTC. Malaysian Ministry of Finance for on the Pakistan Railways. (More in Finance constructing a high-speed railway in the News) The two bus manufacturers had country. (More in Finance News) earlier missed the deadline of supplying 3,125 low-floor buses to DTC. Work on Karachi Circular Railway to Government reveals bus transport Subsequently, on June 1, 2009, the Delhi start in first quarter 2010 cabinet cleared the proposal to buy 1,000 improvement plan for Gungahlin Transport authorities in Pakistan are semi-low floor buses, which were thought The Australian Capital Territory govern- planning to start work on converting the to be more easily available in the market. ment has designed a strategic public Karachi Circular Railway into a high- However, it has now been revealed that transport network plan to improve capacity commuter line in the first quarter the price that the two bus manufacturers Gungahlin’s transport system by 2031. of 2010. The project was approved by the have quoted for the semi-low-floor buses The plan proposes improvements to National Economic Council on September is almost equal to that of low-floor buses. the bus systems by the introduction of 3, 2009 and services are expected to be DTC is considering the option to place four types of bus services (rapid, frequent launched in 2013. a fresh order for the low-floor buses in local, peak express, and coverage) and a Opened in two phases (1964 and place of the semi-low-floor ones. USD1 million trial of the rapid service 1970), the 296 km Karachi Railway starts which will run from Gungahlin to from Karachi City station and loops Mercedes-Benz plans to launch city- Kingston via the city, Russell and around the west of the city to rejoin the buses and luxury coaches Parliamentary Triangle. The trial period main line at Drigh Road, 145 km from the is from November 16, 2009 to June 2010. terminus. It closed in 1999 but there have Mercedes-Benz India is planning to introduce city-buses and three-axle been several attempts at revival. Metro shortlists candidates for luxury coaches in the next six to 12 The current project is backed by the months to increase its bus sales. (More in integrated metro operations contract International Cooperation Agency, Company News) which has agreed to provide soft loans to The authorities have fund bulk of the work. shortlisted two consortia for their Inte- DOTC to tap funds from China for LRT grated Metro Operations Phase 1 which Responsibility for reviving the south extension project includes the line between Central and railway has been delegated to the Karachi Rozelle. Urban Transport Corporation, China may offer Official Development The shortlisted candidates are the established in May 2008; this is owned Assistance to the Philippines Department Kujika consortium (comprising Bovis 60 per cent by Pakistan Railways, 25 per of Transportation and Communication Lend Lease, Downer EDI, Keolis, cent by the Sindh provincial government (DOTC) to help it finance its Light Rail McConnell Dowell, Thales and financial and 15 per cent by the city. The Railway Transit (LRT) South Extension advisor Plenary Group) and Met One is likely to appoint an operating Project. (More in Finance News) concessionaire. (comprising , Bombardier Transportation, Laing O’Rourke and Much of the route is to be rebuilt with NETS cash card for mass rapid transit Hastings Management). The contract double tracks to eliminate level crossings. passengers involves the supply of the trains, track, Consultants have recommended an extra equipment-and-maintenance systems, as pair of tracks between Drigh Road and The Singapore Transport Authorities have well as the operations and maintenance Karachi City to segregate services from introduced a cash card, Network for of the 7 km line. The contract is due to be the main line, increasing the cost from Electronic Transfers Singapore (NETS), awarded in late 2010. PKR875 million to PKR15 billion. There with which passengers can pay for their will be a 4 km tunnel through Gulistan- trips on the city’s mass rapid transit e-Johar plus 225 km on viaduct, leaving systems: light rail and buses. In August Thai cabinet grants approval to lease just 166 km at ground level. The 433 km 2009, NETS launched a pilot by issuing 4,000 natural gas-fuelled buses line will serve 27 stations, of which 11 will 10,000 smart cards, which generated over be elevated and two underground. Trains 0.1 million transactions in a month. The The Thailand Transport Ministry has received the cabinet’s approval for

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Bangkok Mass Transit Authority to lease Bank of Taiwan to lend TWD382 billion to Alcan Extruded Products to supply 4,000 natural gas-fuelled buses for THB64 THSRC EcoRange technology for SBS Transit billion. (More in Finance) buses The Bank of Taiwan will lend up to Earlier, the Thai Transport Ministry TWD382 billion to the Taiwan High France-based Alcan Extruded Products, put together an operation plan for the Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) for con- a business unit of Rio Tinto, will supply natural gas vehicle (NGV) bus project to structing three new high-speed railway aluminum for Singapore-based public the cabinet for consideration. stations early next year. (More in Finance) transport company, SBS Transit’s 600 city The plan evaluates options for the buses. (More in Company News) leasing or renting of 4,000 buses and Delhi to implement GPS on bus fleet provide information on obtaining land for CSR Puzhen wins contract for The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) the bus depots. Metro in India’s capital city is planning to The Mass Transit System implement global positioning systems Singapore’s Midas Holdings’ joint ven- Public Company will fund up to THB60 (GPS) on 5,000 of its buses, including its ture company, CSR Nanjing Puzhen, has billion for the project. new fleet of 200 low-floored buses which won a CNY1.8 billion contract from the are expected to be delivered by March The land acquisition is expected to system, which is under 2010. take around 15 to 24 months. The plan to construction in China. (More in Company rent the buses will cost THB16 million per There is a provision to include private News) bus over the next ten years while the buses and other public service vehicles, leasing plan will cost THB6 million per taking the total number of buses to about Hong Kong-Shenzen airport link project bus for the same period. 11,000 by 2011. to cost HKD50 billion more than Private-bus concessionaires will have A pre-bid meeting has attracted the expected to replace their diesel-powered green interest of over 30 companies willing to The rail link between Hong Kong and minibuses with NGV buses within the provide the services. DTC plans to end Shenzhen airports is expected to cost next six months. the selection process by this month and start rolling out services 15 days later. HKD50 billion more than earlier The Islamic Bank of Thailand, the estimates. Land and the The GPS service is expected to be The cost of the project has increased Bangkok Mass Transit Authority have operational by year end and is aimed at as most of the Hong Kong section of the signed a joint agreement to grant loans making the buses more commuter- 50 km cross-border link will have to be worth THB1.5 billion to minibus friendly in time for the 2010 built underground and will include a 7 operators to help them replace their Commonwealth Games. km cross-harbour tunnel between the current diesel-powered bus fleets with airport and Tuen Mun, according to a NGV ones. to build USD1.2 billion railway study by MTR Corporation. line using BOT (1 Thai Baht [THB] = 0.0299 USD) The Hong Kong section of the line is State-owned Vietnam Railways and a around 25 km, including a 9 km spur line Thai transport ministry introduces consortium of seven South Korean com- connecting to Hung Shui Kiu, Yuen Long. Bangkok underground extension plan panies (including Samsung, Daewoo, The MTR study estimates that this section Ska, Kumho and Kangnam) have will cost more than HKD2 billion per km The Thailand Transport Ministry has finalised plans to construct a USD1.2 bil- to construct. unveiled a THB82 billion plan to construct lion railway track in Vietnam’s capital city Meanwhile, the authorities are a 27 km long extension of Bangkok’s . (More in Finance) attempting to keep the cost of the Hong underground train service. (More in Kong section of another cross-border rail Finance) JICA to undertake Karachi transportation link, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong project study Kong Express Rail Link below HKD50 Bombardier wins high speed train billion after it overshot its previous contract in China The Japan International Cooperation estimated cost of HKD39.5 billion. This Agency (JICA) will undertake a Transpor- will increase the budgetary pressure on CSR Bombardier Sifang () tation Improvement study in Pakistan to the rail link between the airports. Transportation, a joint venture between facilitate the development of the Karachi (1 Hong Kong Dollar [HKD] = 0.1290 Canada-based train manufacturer Urban Transport Master Plan (KUTMP) USD) Bombardier and China South Locomotive for 2030. and Rolling Stock (CSR) Sifang JICA will validate projects already Locomotive and Rolling Stock, has won Bangladesh to revitalize bus transport identified under the transport section of half of a USD4 billion contract to supply Karachi Special Development Package trains to China’s Ministry of Railways. Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation 2020, identify additional projects for (BRTC) plans to procure 100 new buses The 80 Zefiro 380 trains will have KUTMP 2030, and prepare feasibility and revamp its operations by rebuilding maximum speed ranging up to 380 km/ studies of the high priority mass transit 125 single and double-decker buses. hr. (More in Company News). system projects.

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The organisation had started limiting Bombardier looks to cash in on metro Mysore in Karnataka state have launched its services due to political influence, coach demand in India new fleets of buses procured under the pressure from private bus operators and Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Re- a shortage of buses. BRTC has closed its The German rail equipment arm of Bom- newal Mission (JNNURM). services on 100 routes over the last five bardier Transportation expects the annual Agra has received the first 11 of the years. demand for metro rail coaches in India to reach 1,000 units in the next two years. newly ordered fleet of 200 low-floor buses (More in Company News) which will be used to connect historical Metro Integrated Transport Terminal monuments and help tourists travel inaugurated in Legazpi across the city. Shimla has introduced Ahmedabad has launched BRTS nine buses to connect with Chhota Shimla The Metro Integrated Transport Terminal and major destinations. (MITT) of Legazpi city of Philippines has India’s western city, Ahmedabad in started operating. The terminal will Gujarat, has launched its Bus Rapid The Karnataka State centralise all forms of land transportation, Transport System (BRTS) on October 14, Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is including buses, which pass through 2009. The transport authorities are due to receive 70 Volvos and low-floor Legazpi from Manila going to Visayas. finalising the time schedules and speed luxury buses to be deployed in Mysore. of the buses. BRTS smart cards will be The Union Ministry of Urban The USD6.4 million facility was built available at all BRTS bus stations for a fee Development will cover 90 per cent of by the LKY Group on a 25-year build- of INR25 from October 14, 2009. The the project cost while the remainder will operate-transfer (BOT) arrangement. buses, each costing about INR 2.7 million, be borne by KSRTC. KSRTC is will be operated by Charter Speed Private constructing bus-stands, modernising Alstom signs two agreements for Limited for seven years. suburban bus-stands, and constructing depots for the maintenance and service signalling and trams in Kazakhstan (1 [INR] = 0.0215 USD) of vehicles. Alstom has signed two cooperation agree- Delhi introduces 107 new low-floor buses Launched by the central government, ments covering production of turnout the JNNURM is a city modernisation motors and supply of a tram system for India’s capital city, Delhi, has rolled out scheme with a total investment of over Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital city. (More 107 low-floor buses, including 30 air con- USD20 billion in a 5-6 year period. So far, in Company News) ditioned models. This takes the total the Ministry has funded more than 15,000 number of low-floor buses in the city to luxury buses, including ultra-modern Construction work begins on Manukau 763. The entire fleet of Delhi Transport and air-conditioned buses in the 65 cities rail link Corporation buses comprises 3,559 buses, identified under JNNURM. including 631 non-air-conditioned and 25 (1 Indian Rupee [INR] = 0.0212 USD) Construction work on the Manukau rail air-conditioned low-floor compressed- link, the first passenger rail route in natural-gas-fuelled buses and 2,903 stan- Auckland, New Zealand, has begun. The dard floor buses. Nanche Sifang Locomotive receives 2 km link will branch off from the bullet train order from Chinese railway Southern Line at Puhinui to reach Davies ministry Avenue. Tadiran Telecom receives communications system order from SCR China’s Ministry of Railways has Leighton Works is the principal awarded a contract worth CNY45 billion contractor for the NZD50 million link, India rail operator South Central Railway to procure 140 bullet trains from a China- which is expected to open in the first half (SCR) has granted a contract to Israel- based train maker affiliated with Japa- of 2011 as part of the overall NZD600 based Tadiran Telecom for deploying the nese firm Kawasaki Heavy Industries. million project to upgrade Auckland’s rail Softswitch communication system over (More in Company News) network. its 200 km long network. (More in Company News) (1 New Zealand Dollar [NZD] = 0.7583 China transit authorities to construct USD) Ashok Leyland to deliver ultra low entry underground railway track SKRC to extend Korea Train Express buses in Delhi China’s transport authorities will con- struct a 9 km long underground rail track operations Ashok Leyland will start rolling out its between Railway Station in cen- ultra low entry buses for the Delhi Trans- The South Korea Railroad Corporation tral Beijing and Beijing West Railway Sta- port Corporation (DTC) from its new bus (SKRC) is planning to expand the opera- tion in south-west Beijing. body construction facility in Alwar, tions of its Korea Train Express (KTX) Rajasthan. (More in Company News) The project, estimated to cost CNY3.1 bullet trains from Busan and Mokpo to billion, will enable passengers to travel Incheon International Airport. Agra, Shimla, Mysore receive buses between the two stations in 20 minutes. The extension will connect to the under JNNURM Beijing transport officials expect the Seoul Station-Gimpo International trains travelling between the two stations Airport section. The construction of the India’s cities, Agra in Uttar Pradesh state, to carry about 100,000 passengers per day section is estimated to be completed in Shimla in Himachal Pradesh state, and by 2012. The project is a part of the late 2010

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Chinese government’s plan to make Ferroviarias (ADIF) has awarded a ser- Beijing accessible to other major cities EUROPE vice contract to a consortium comprising through high-speed trains. U.T.E. FCC Construcción, S. Contratas y rules out merger with Ventas, Vías y Construcciones, and (1 Chinese Yuan [CNY] = 0.1464 USD) Stagecoach after CVC-Cosmen deal fails COMSA Limited for repair, maintenance and associated services for the Madrid- UK-based passenger transport company, IDB grants USD140 million loan for Sevilla High-Speed Rail Line. The order National Express, has ruled out a possible is valued at EUR40.78 million. Pakistan railway project merger with Australia-based rail The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has operator, Stagecoach. (More in Finance) (1 [EUR] = 1.4971USD) sanctioned a USD140 million loan to Pakistan for revamping the signalling WP Carey enters into a sale leaseback Pöyry-Deutsche Bahn consortium system on its national railways. (More in with National Express receives contract for new airport Finance) railway line Investment management company, W. P. Carey and Company, has entered into a Afghanistan railway project to receive -based rail operator PKP Polskie sale-leaseback transaction worth USD26 Linie Kolejowe has awarded a EUR7.5 ADB financing million with UK’s transport operator, million contract to a consortium compris- National Express. (More in Finance) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will ing Finland-based Pöyry and Germany- contribute USD165 million to finance the based Deutsche Bahn International for first railway project in Afghanistan. (More UK government to hold on to East Coast designing a new airport rail line in in Finance) franchisee Katowice city in Poland. The consortium is expected to deliver a feasibility study, The UK government has stated that it will a preliminary study, building permit de- Government launches SPV to implement keep the ownership and management of sign, tender design and an environmen- project National Express’s East Coast franchise tal impact assessment for the project. in public hands for at least two years to The Gujarat government has launched a The project, which is expected to be ensure stability for passengers and em- special purpose vehicle, MetroLink Ex- completed by May 2011, involves ployees. The government took back the constructing a 38 km rail line from the press Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad line after transport group, National Ex- (MEGA), for implementing the metro rail airport to the city centre and to other cities press, could no longer sustain the losses in the upper Silesian agglomeration. It is project connecting Ahmedabad and on the East Coast line. Gandhinagar, and Thaltej and Kalupur. being funded by the Cohesion Fund as well as by government MEGA was formed with an initial Competition Commission approves budgetary allocations. capital of INR100 million and has an Stagecoach’s acquisition of (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4971USD) authorised capital of INR2 billion. Buses and Cavendish Motor Services The 100 km long fully elevated metro project has received in-principle approval The UK Competition Commission has Pesa secures contract to from the union government. Now, issues approved Perth-based bus company supply low-floor trams to Stagecoach’s proposal to purchase such as phasing the metro project competing bus service providers, Poland-based rolling stock manufacturer construction and instituting feeder and Cavendish Motor Pesa Bydgoszcz SA has secured a contract transport services are being addressed. Services, which cater to customers in to supply nine low-floor trams to Szeged Recently, a study for the proposed Eastbourne. (More in Finance) city in . (More in Company News) metro rail project was assigned to Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Modertrans wins contract for tram of metro project to Services (IL&FS) for analysing traffic network modernisation commence soon movements and requirements. Construction on the first phase of Line 2 IL&FS will also provide project The department for public transport in of the in Poland is likely advisory services for the project. Gdañsk, Poland, Zakład Komunikacji Miejskiej w Gdañsku Limited, has to begin in 2010. The project had earlier Meanwhile, the Gujarat government awarded a contract to Poland-based hit a roadblock as the Overseas Engineer- has announced an INR3.62 billion plan transport equipment manufacturer ing Group consortium, had appealed to to convert about 2,000 km of rail track to Modertrans Poznan for maintenance of the Warsaw-Mokotow District Court broad gauge from metre gauge. rolling stock used in the town’s tram net- against the award of the contract for con- work. (More in Company News) structing the central section of Line 2, a 6 Funded entirely by the state’s railway km section from Rondo Daszynskiego to budget, the project will be finished by Dworzec Wilenski. 2013. Gujarat is the only state in the ADIF grants repair and maintenance country to have an extensive metre-gauge contract for high-speed rail The China-based consortium, the track network. Overseas Engineering Group, comprising Madrid-based high-speed rail operator, the China Overseas Engineering Group (1 Indian Rupee [INR] = 0.0212 USD) Administrador de Infraestructuras Limited, Shanghai Construction and

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China Railway Tunnel, had filed the DPP to access over CZK8 billion EU funds Malta Transport Authority has launched appeal. However, the Warsaw-Mokotow for mass transit expansion the tender in line with Malta’s Public District Court has dismissed the appeal . Transport Reform, which aims to create The Transport Ministry of Czech Repub- an integrated and modern service. In April 2009, the contract was lic is planning to help finance the devel- awarded to a consortium comprising opment and expansion of ’s under- The successful bidder will be required -based , Turkey-based ground mass transit system in line with to buy over 100 new low-emission buses Gulermak and Poland-based the Operating Programme on Transport. and maintain the bus fleet. It must also Przedsiebiorstwo Budowy Dróg i (More in Finance) carry out improvements such as Mostów, which had beaten the China- introduction of new routes, state-of-the- based consortium as the lowest bidder. art passenger information and ticketing. Arriva wins contracts from Darlington However, the bid amount of PLZ4.1 Borough Council and London Bus billion offered by the winning consotrium Services Bombardier receives EUR258 million exceeds the official budget estimate of contract from Trenitalia PLZ3.7 billion, thereby requiring Darlington Borough Council has granted ratification by Warszawa City Hall. The UK-based bus service operator, Arriva Italy based train operator, Trenitalia, has city council can now sign the contract. North East, a ‘multiple awardees’ contract granted a EUR258 million contract to Canada-based transport equipment (1 Polish Zloty [PLN] = 0.3571USD) for providing bus services in Darlington, County Durham, for an unspecified manufacturer, Bombardier Transporta- amount (rumored to be GBP1.5 million). tion for 100 Class E464 electric locomo- Transport authorities to launch Thames (More in Company News) tives. (More in Company News) passenger system rail car tender SNCF to launch tender for high speed UK transport authorities are likely to CAF receives EUR139 million contract trainsets launch a USD2.4 billion tender soon for from transport authorities the supply of 1,100 rail cars for the The Istanbul transport authorities have France national railways, Société ThamesLink passenger system project in Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français southern England. The contract value granted a EUR139 million contract to Spain-based Construcciones y Auxiliar de (SNCF) is planning to launch a tender for may rise to USD4 billion if it includes supplying up to 100 new-generation high long-term maintenance. Equipment Ferrocarriles (CAF) for supplying 30 metro units, comprising four cars, with speed trainsets, equipped to operate cross- manufacturer, Bombardier Transporta- border passenger rail services. SNCF has tion, is expected to bid for the project and each unit measuring 90 metres in length. (More in Company News) firmed up plans for 35 trainsets and has is a frontrunner. left open the option to procure another 65. Meanwhile, Bombardier A batch of 13 sets, estimated to cost around GAZ Group delivers 16 LiAZ buses to Transportation has recently been EUR400 million, will replace the multi- permitted by ’s Federal Yakutsk municipal transportation system TGVs used by the SNCF-SBB joint Antimonopoly Service to set up a 50:50 company venture Lyria and augment the fleet used joint venture with Russia-based railway on the Thalys service to Brussels, Russia-based automotive manufacturing equipment producer . and Köln. The remaining company, Oleg Deripaska’s GAZ Group, The joint venture, to be based in Russia, units will be held in reserve. has delivered 16 LiAZ buses to the will be called Bombardier Transportation Yakutsk municipal transportation com- The rail operator is expected to start Transmashholding AG. pany. (More in Company News) negotiations with major manufacturers for the contract, including Alstom, Telent secures bus information system Bombardier and Siemens by October 2009 Transdev selected to bid for 10 year bus contract in London and issue a formal tender invitation in operations tender January 2010. UK-based Telent, a technology services The Innovation and Development Divi- SNCF also intends to complete the company, has been awarded a 12-year sion of the France-based international long-planned extension of its TGV (high contract by Transport for London to de- multimodal transport group, Transdev speed rail services) Interconnexion across velop core software and provide web and Group, has announced that the Transdev the south of , from Valenton to mobile content for upgrading London’s Plus consortium will participate in the Massy. It also intends to develop stations bus passenger information system. (More tender for the exclusive operation of bus at La Défense as the main hub for the in Company News) services in Malta for over 10 years. proposed Paris – Rouen – Le Havre high speed line. SNCF’s ultimate goal is to have The consortium comprises Transdev Thales partners with BelAir to provide 12 TGV stations and link Paris to the and three Maltese companies, CVA wi-fi for Light Rail entire the European high speed network. Technology (an information technology The total cost of the project is estimated company that operates the Valetta France-based technology services com- to be between EUR250 million and congestion charge scheme), Leo Grech, pany Thales has partnered with Canada- EUR500 million and will be funded owner of Paramount Garages and one of based BelAir Networks to provide wi-fi largely by the government. facilities for the Project Malta’s private bus and coach operators, in . (More in Company News) and the local family group Gasan. The (1 Euro[EUR] = 1.4787 USD)

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RZD to form a new independent market Victoria Street, Botanic, Bangor, Tyne & Wear metro until early 2010, entity for long distance passenger Carrickfergus and Lisburn. obliging bidders such as DB Regio Tyne business & Wear and Nexus to revise and confirm London Bus Services awards GBP4.7 their bids. Serco-NedRailways failed to The Russian Railways, Rossiyskie progress in its bidding, while MTR Cor- Zheleznye Dorogi (RZhD) is looking to million contract to North poration pulled out of the race in June. create a new company for funding and London Bus Services has granted Arriva operating its long-distance passenger The operating contract is estimated to London North a GBP4.7 million contract business. (More in Finance) come into effect in April 2010. It involves for providing bus services on Route 76 an overhaul of the 59 km light rail for 5 years. (More in Company News) network, which connects Newcastle and Nexans to deliver railway cables for Sunderland with suburbs on both sides Istanbul rail line Thales UK to upgrade CIS for of the Tyne and Wear rivers. The Southeastern Railways Department for Transport will cover France-based transport equipment funding up to GBP346 million under the provider Alstom has granted a EUR3.3 UK rail operator, Southeastern Railways Metro Re-invigoration Programme which million contract to France-based cable has granted a contract to technology aims to upgrade the network company, Nexans for manufacture and provider, Thales UK, for upgrading and infrastructure by 2019. supply of 1,350 km specialised railway integrating its Customer Information signalling cables. (More in Company News) (1 British Pound [GBP] = 1.6332 USD) System (CIS). (More in Company News)

EIB grants EUR500 million loan for Paris VAG launches wireless services Centro to launch smart card system in tram extension November Germany-based public transport The European Investment Bank (EIB) has operator, VAG, has launched driverless Transport operator of West Midlands in granted the Paris regional rapid transit rail services on the U2 line (on the UK, Centro, is planning to roll out the authority a 25-year EUR500 million loan U-Bahn). Four out of eight trains in smartcard scheme in November 2009. The for extending its tram system by 14.5 km service on the U2 line are running under GBP14.2 million project, which is similar (between Porte d’Ivry and Porte de la automatic control and full automation is to the London-style Oyster card system, Chapelle) and adding 26 new stations. planned by January 2010. Tracks on a 3.5 will initially be applied to (More in Finance. km section, shared with Line U3, have and Silverline buses and will later be been driverless since June 2008. The extended to London Midland train common section has featured manually- CT Plus Yorkshire’s Park-and-Ride services. It was intended to introduce the driven trains on U2 services and contract to be reviewed system in April 2009 but problems with automatic control services on U3. the electronic ticket machines delayed it. The UK government is reviewing its Centro will begin a rolling programme decision to grant a contract for running to install the technology on 2,500 buses Bombardier wins EUR35 million order Hull’s bus service to in the region if the November launch is from Deutsche Bahn London-based transport operator, CT successful. Plus Yorkshire, a subsidiary of the HCT Germany-based rail operator Deutsche group. The decision was made last month Bahn (DB) has placed a EUR35 million and will now be reviewed at the City FirstGroup’s bus and rail revenue growth order for up to 8 2 Council’s next meeting. The contract is rate slows down electric multiple-units (EMUs). (More in being questioned as Hull-based bus firm Company News) Transport operator, FirstGroup, has wit- East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) nessed a slowdown in the growth rate of had submitted a lower tender. EYMS has its bus and rail revenues in recent months. Grammer sets up wholly owned been offering park and ride bus services (More in Finance) subsidiary between the city centre and Priory Park in west Hull for the last six years. Germany-based vehicle seat manufac- AmeyColas wins track renewal contract turer, Grammer, has set up a wholly Translink introduces smartcard from Network Rail owned subsidiary responsible for the group’s rail activities. (More in Company UK rail operator Network Rail has Northern public transport opera- News) granted a EUR250 million contract to tor Translink has deployed the country’s AmeyColas for operating and first integrated commercial smartcard, maintaining its track renewal systems. Alstom to electrify Granada tramway iLink, on its rail services. The card can be (More in Company News) system topped up for unlimited travel on North- ern Ireland Rail and can be purchased The Autonomous Community of within three specified zones in Northern Nexus postpones tender for Tyne & Wear Andalusia in Spain has granted a Ireland. The iLink can also be used on the metro operating contract EUR16.4 million contract to Alstom and operator’s bus services. New platform Spain-based Inabensa to electrify validators have been deployed at key rail UK transport authority Nexus has post- Granada’s tramway system. (More in stations including Belfast Central, Great poned granting a 7 year contract for a Company News)

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Siemens wins equipment supply tem for buses, which locks a vehicle’s between London’s St Pancras station and contract from City Transport brakes if the driver is under the influence the Channel Tunnel is presently being of alcohol. (More in Company News) operated by London & Continental Helsinki-based public transport operator, Railways. Helsinki City Transport, has granted a EUR56 million contract to Siemens for Bombardier unveils Itino diesel Meanwhile, UK rail operator supplying technical equipment for the14 Network Rail has announced its intention Bombardier Transportation has intro- km extension of its metro network. (More to electrify the Midland main line from duced its first Itino diesel railcar, which in Company News) London St Pancras to Derby, Nottingham runs on low-emission diesel technology and Sheffield. The move follows the TM (CLEAN ). (More in Company News) recommendation of a year long study. The Siemens and Bombardier win EUR191 operators has already provided the go million order from Wiener PKP Intercity to launch EUR500 million ahead for the electrification of the Great Western line between London and Austrian public transit network operator, tender Swansea as well as the line between Wiener Linien, has ordered 20 Type V six- Poland-based long distance passenger and . car metro trains worth EUR191 million transport company, PKP Intercity, will from Siemens, Elin EBG Traction, and (1 British Pound [GBP] = 1.6594 USD) soon launch a EUR500 million tender for Bombardier. (More in Company News) the supply of 20 trains. Global transport companies including Italy-based Mantena wins train maintenance purchases 150 new buses to Ansaldo-Breda with Newag, Canada- contract from Alstom replace fleet based Bombardier with Pesa and Ger- many-based Siemens will participate in France-based transport equipment manu- public transport operator, Riga, the bidding. The European Union tech- facturer, Alstom has granted a 7-year has procured 150 low-floor modern nical support agency, JASPERS, will have EUR22 million contract to Norway-based Ðkoda 24Tr Irisbus trolley buses which to approve the technical documentation firm Mantena for maintaining the 49 will replace two-thirds of the company’s before any bids are submitted. Coradia Nordic trains that it is building 20 year old 12 meter trolley buses. Riga for ’s Scania region public trans- will need 120 more trolley buses to re- (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4912 USD) port authority. (More in Company News) place its entire fleet. Alstom and Ansaldo win ERTMS contract Alstom receives trainset contract from Ministry seeks government guarantees from Trenitalia SNCF for subway construction loans Italy-based rail operator Trenitalia has France National Railways, Société The Transport and Communications Min- granted a EUR25 million contract to Nationale des Chemins de fer français, istry of is looking to retrieve gov- France-based Alstom and Italy-based (SNCF) has granted a EUR7 billion con- ernment guarantees for loans taken to fi- Ansaldo to maintain the European Rail- tract to France-based transport equip- nance the construction of subways in way Traffic Management System ment manufacturer, Alstom for supply- Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk. (More in (ERTMS) for its 31 high-speed trains. ing up to 1,000 low-floor trainsets to op- Finance) (More in Company News) erate regional services for the Association des Régions de France, a consortium of regional authorities. (More in Company Metro to have driverless trains Bombardier delivers first set of trains for the of London News) The will soon implement Underground driverless trains on its new radial lines Thales receives rail signalling contract as well as on the new second circular line. Canada-based rail equipment manufac- from GYSEV The second circular line will be directly turer, Bombardier Transportations, has connected with the radial lines, and the delivered the first of 58 eight-car trains Regional railway operator, GYSEV, jointly trains, running from the north-west will for the Metropolitan Line of the London owned by Hungary and , has be able to follow the south-east, avoiding Underground. (More in Company News) granted a HUF7.63 million contract to the centre of the city. The train operator -based automation-technology has already introduced elements of Eurotunnel offers long term concession company Thales Rail Signalling for driverless services in the stage between for High Speed One rail line supplying security equipment on the the stations Strogino and Mitino. It had Hungary Railways’ track. (More in earlier been expected that the new system Cross channel tunnel operator, Company News) of the train services would begin Groupe Eurotunnel, is looking to offer a functioning in 2015. concession for operating UK’s High Speed Ukrzaliznytsia to upgrade 100 One rail line on a long term basis. The locomotives Volvo introduces alcolock system for rail line has been put up for sale as part buses of the government’s plan to raise GBP16 Ukraine’s administration, billion through asset sales. The deal value Ukrzaliznytsia, is planning to upgrade Sweden-based bus manufacturer, Volvo is estimated to be around GBP1.5 to 2 100 locomotives in 2010 for both freight Buses, has deployed a new alcolock sys- billion. The 68-mile 186mph rail line and passenger use. The renewal will in-

Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 19 News volve equipping locomotives with new Dubai RTA to tap private sources for to be complete in 2011. engines to reduce the cost of diesel fuel funding rail projects Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment (currently UAH3 billion a year). The Dubai Roads and Transport Company and German firm Deutsche This is in addition to outfitting the Authority (RTA) is considering the Bahn have already developed a locomotives with state-of-the-art units public-private partnership model for conceptual design to bid for the project. and assembly sets for improvement of the implementing future rail projects. (More This is the first of Qatar’s five planned operational specifications. in Finance) rail projects in the country which will be (1 Ukrainian Grivna [UAH] = 0.1221 USD) undertaken over the next ten years. Abu Dhabi to complete metro Phase 1 in The objective is to build a national 2015 railway system. The rail projects include constructing an east coast rail link MIDDLE EAST AND The Abu Dhabi Department of Transport between Ras Laffan and Mesaieed, a has announced its plans to complete the AFRICA high-speed link from Doha to Bahrain first segment of its metro rail line and across the Qatar Bahrain Causeway, a launch services by October 2015. The Transport authorities invite bids for rail freight link connected to the planned feasibility study for building the metro GCC rail network, a network project will begin in November 2009 and last up and a light rail network serving to 21 months. Yemen’s transport authorities have residential developments. invited bids for the country’s first-ever railway project. Under the project, three Alstom looks to ramp up business in the WFO and QSTP team up to introduce lines are planned to be constructed to Middle East connect Yemen with the neighbouring technology solutions for mass transit Gulf countries. France-based engineering firm, Alstom is The Williams Formula One (WFO) team firming up plans to boost its business in The first line is planned to be has entered into an agreement with the the Middle East by negotiating for a five- constructed along the coastline from Qatar Science and Technology Park year contract to maintain a USD809 Yemen’s north-western border with Saudi (QSTP) to set up the Williams Technology million tram system in Dubai. (More in Arabia to its eastern border with Oman. Centre, which will provide technology Company News) solutions for the mainstream mass-transit The other two lines are planned to link industry. the north-western areas with the Red Sea Mozambique to build USD11 billion rail and Arabian Sea seaports. The centre will develop new network environmentally beneficial technologies Rail transport does not currently exist inspired by Formula One. One of the in Yemen. In 2005, the government started Mozambique transport authorities are many projects will focus on developing investigating the possibility of planning to construct a new USD11 bil- energy recovery systems for use on buses, constructing rail connections as part of a lion rail network to link the country by trains and cars. larger upgrade of transportation 2023. The project involves building 2,000 infrastructure. km of rail lines to connect its provinces. The exact project cost is estimated to While USD5 billion will be spent on be less than USD50 million. The centre Government extends deadline for Abu rail line construction, USD6 billion will expects the technology solutions to be ready for commercial testing by 2012. Dhabi tram tender be spent on related road infrastructure. The project is expected to begin this year. Abu Dhabi’s Department of Transport has The plan, part of the Strategy for Qatar launches Qatar Railways extended the deadline for submitting bids Integrated Development of the Transport for its tram system tender till November Transport authorities in Qatar have System, has already received the Council 5, 2009. The Department had invited bids launched a railway company, Qatar Rail- of Ministers’ approval. from pre-qualified consulting firms for ways, to drive development of the the tender. country’s railway network. Qatar invites bids for express airport rail The contract involves assessing the Set up with an initial capital of USD100 feasibility and financial viability of the line construction million, Qatar Railways aims to develop project, as well as preparing initial Qatar transport authorities have invited a fully fledged rail system in Doha, which designs for the stations and other bids for constructing an express airport will link it with other cities and countries. technical specifications. rail line. The project involves constructing The company is expected to start The Abu Dhabi Light-Rail Transit/ a railway station terminal for the express working on mega railway projects from Tram project involves constructing 340 line, which will connect the airport with 2012, to be completed by 2026. km of transit lines, and is one of the rail and metro stations in downtown Doha as well as with other rail networks. Such projects will include linking the several transportation projects under the towers area in West Bay to a monorail Surface Transport Master Plan 2030. Known as the Passenger Rail Station Box, system, and a metro project. An The Department expects the light-rail the project will be overseen by UK-based international consultancy firm has tram to be operational by 2014. firm Mace International and is expected already been appointed for the project.

20 Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 News du implements wi-fi broadband services based Siemens is leading the consortium, South Africa upgrades bus fleet for on trains and stations which has completed the bulk of the work World Cup 2014 including the construction of the The South Africa government is ramping UAE-based integrated telecom service and stations. provider, du, has launched wi-fi broad- up its transport system ahead of the band services on Dubai metro trains and Siemens is putting the computer and World Cup in 2014. It has launched stations in conjunction with RTA. (More signalling systems in place, Spain’s CAF Translux buses and has procured at least in Company News) is building the rolling stock and France’s 570 luxury buses, which will be managed Vinci Grands Projets is responsible for the by the Passenger Rail Management As- civil works. Testing of the system began sociation and Autopax, the company re- Voith Turbo to deliver cooling systems in March 2009. sponsible for the Translux fleet. for Saudi Arabian trains The work is divided into four Spanish transport equipment extensions: from El-Harrach station to Nigeria government grants USD874 manufacturer, Construcciones y Auxiliar Bab Ezzouar, from Place des Martyrs to million for railway modernisation de Ferrocarriles (CAF), has granted a Bab el-Oued, from Bab el-Oued to Nigeria’s federal government has ap- contract to Voith Turbo for supplying Chevalley and from Ain Naadja to Les proved funding worth USD874.3 million cooling systems for Saudi Arabian trains. Fusilles. for the Nigerian Railways Modernisation (More in Company News) Project. (More in Finance) On Track Innovations wins smart card Algeria metro postponed until 2010 contract from DiGiCore CCECC awarded rail construction contract The Algiers transport authority has South Africa-based DigiCore has granted The Nigerian Ministry of Transport has postponed opening the first line of its a contract to Israel-based On Track awarded a USD875 million contract to metro system, a 9 km track linking Innovations (OTI) for supplying smart- China Civil and Engineering Construc- Grande Poste to Hai el-Badr, until 2010. card readers for a contactless fare system tion Corporation (CCECC) for reinstating It was earlier expected to become on South Africa’s rail system. (More in the Abuja-Kaduna rail system. (More in operational in October 2009. Germany- Company News) Company News). Global Mass Transit Report Information and analysis on the global mass transit industry

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Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 21 TA/TSO Focus

MTR Corporation Limited (2) Construction of a 3 km long underground extension of the existing MTR from to , known as the West Island Line. Three stations at Sai Ying Making progress in mass transit railway systems Pun, Hong Kong University, and Kennedy Town will be constructed under the project which has been designed so that ong Kong-based MTR Corporation Limited (MTR) is one over 90 per cent of the residents can access the rail facility by Hof the world’s leading rail-based transport service provid- foot. The project is expected to be operational by 2014. ers. Originally established in 1975 as Mass Transit Railway Cor- (3) Construction of the Cheung Lai Street Pedestrian Subway poration, the company was christened MTR after the Hong Kong and Entrance Works at MTR Lai Chi Kok Station. Special Administrative Region Government sold 23 per cent of its issued share capital in an initial public offering in 2000. Later In China, MTR is implementing metro projects such as the in 2007, MTR acquired the operations of the Kowloon-Canton Beijing Metro and . Railway Corporation (KCRC). Beijing Metro Line 4 between Hong Kong and Beijing was Since its inception, the company has considerably expanded implemented on September 29, 2009, by a PPP between MTR its ambit of operations. Besides railway operations, MTR is also and the Beijing municipal government. The USD2.24 billion involved in other business segments such as development of project runs 29 km long with 24 stations from Gongyixiqiao residential and commercial projects, property leasing, Station in to the northwest , advertising, telecommunication services, and international terminating at Anheqiao North station. MTR invested in consultancy services. Railway operations, however, continue to operations and electric and mechanical works while the dominate the company’s portfolio. municipal government invested in construction. The project is expected to attract a daily ridership of about 700,000 people. Profits are expected from the third year of operations and return Current Status on investment is expected to take about 10 years. MTR is currently engaged in urban mass transit railway sys- MTR’s other metro project in China, the Shenzhen Metro Line tems in Hong Kong operating a 211.6 km long urban rail net- 4, is currently under construction. The 15.8 km network consists work covering 82 stations with about 1,920 cars. The company of 5 km of underground section and 10.8 km of at- and has been implementing various rail-based projects, both in Hong elevated sections. Ten stations are planned for the network, two Kong and China. It is also constructing many link projects such underground, one-at-grade station, and seven elevated. In as pedestrian subways, footbridges, cover walkways, and MTR addition, a maintenance depot will be constructed at Longsheng entrances on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis. Station. The tendering process for procurement of all civil In Hong Kong, MTR is currently implementing three projects: electrical and mechanical works has been completed. The project All these projects are currently under construction-execution. is estimated to require an investment of USD0.87 billion, all of which is provided by MTR. A concession agreement was signed (1) Construction of a noise enclosure on top of the existing in March 2009 with the Shenzhen municipal government. viaducts at the western end of Tsing Yi station by about 60 metre.

Financial profile (USD million) Particulars 2008 2007 2006 2005 Turnover 2,274.58 1,379.35 1,231.09 1,181.03 Total assets 20,559.74 20,086.19 15,538.19 14,666.58 Operating profit before depreciation and amortisation 1,805.81 1,834.32 1,421.68 1,451.09 Profit attributable to equity shareholders 1,068.90 1,958.71 1,001.16 1,090.32 Source: MTR Corporation Key financial ratios (%) Particulars 2008 2007 2006 2005 Operating margin 52.9 55.3 54.5 55.7 Non-fare revenue as a % of turnover 35.0 33.4 31.6 31.4 Return on average equity attributable to equity shareholders (excluding 8.7 10.2 8.1 9.3 change in fair value of investment properties and related deferred tax) Net debt-to-equity ratio 42.1 48.5 36.3 39.9 Source: MTR Corporation

Operating profit contribution (USD million) Particulars 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 Railway operations and related businesses 954.84 593.55 529.03 516.13 464.51 Property development 606.45 1,070.97 748.39 787.09 593.55 Property ownership, management and other businesses 245.16 167.74 141.94 141.94 116.13 Total 1,806.45 1,831.29 1,419.36 1,445.16 1,174.19 Source: MTR Corporation

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Future Projects MTR also has several future metro rail projects lined up such as MTR Corporation-SWOT Analysis the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link, Shatin to Central Link, extension, and South Island The outlook for MTR looks promising as the company Line. reported strong revenue growth with improved operational performance. Recent mergers and acquisitions by the MTR has recently signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with company, as well as a focus on network expansion and the Hangzhou Metro Group Company Limited for the development, will offer ample growth opportunities. A investment, construction, and operation of Hangzhou Metro Line SWOT analysis of MTR is given below. 1. The USD3.22 billion Line 1 project is divided into two parts – A and B. The civil construction of Part A will be undertaken by Strengths: During the period 2004-08, the company’s Hangzhou Metro Group and the investment and construction of revenue grew at a CAGR of 20.54 per cent. MTR Part B, which covers the electrical and mechanical system and outperformed the growth of S&P 500 companies operation of the metro line, will be undertaken by the JV. (maintained by Standard & Poor) in revenue and market share. The impressive growth has been made possible due Besides Hong Kong and China, the company is also securing to better competitive positioning and superior products and contracts at other places. MTR’s majority-owned subsidiary, services. Also, the company traded at price/earnings of Metro Trains Melbourne (MTM), has signed a franchise 18.92 by the end of 2008, which is above the average figure agreement with the Victoria Government in Australia to operate of 9.2 by S&P 500 companies. The company also provides and maintain the Melbourne train system for an initial period of intercity services to the Mainland of China along with bus eight years beginning on November 30, 2009. MTR holds a 60 operations in Hong Kong. The company has also managed per cent stake in MTM, and the remaining 40 per cent stake is to significantly improve its operational performances. The held by two Australian industry organisations, UGL Rail and company received about 19,300 transport-related John Holland. complaints and suggestions in 2008, a reduction of 4.4 per MTR has won USD2.58 billion contract to operate the cent compared to 2007. metro in Sweden for eight years. Besides train and Weaknesses: One of the possible drawbacks of the station operations, MTR will also provide servicing and company, as ascertained by various analyses, is potential maintenance of trains. The contract, scheduled to begin from interference by the government. The Hong Kong November 2009, includes an optional six-year extension. As per government holds about 76.6 per cent share in the company, the agreement, Stockholm Public Transport will annually pay which makes it hard to rule out interference in management MTR a fixed amount of USD294.19 million, plus an incentive of decisions which could adversely affect business. The fare up to USD17.42 million. structure of operations is decided by the government, which may have a negative impact on the operating ratio. Financial Health The company’s return on equity stood at 8.5 per cent at the end of 2008 as against the 12.9 per cent by the S&P 500 The company has been consistently recording impressive finan- companies. A lower return on equity indicates that the cial growth in recent times. Its consolidated turnover in 2008 stood company may not be using shareholders money as at USD2.27 billion, an increase of 64.9 per cent over 2007. The efficiently, generating lower returns compared to other total asset base increased to USD20.56 billion (2.36 per cent), and companies in the S&P index. the operating margin improved to 52.9 in 2008 as against 55.3 in 2007. Opportunities: The merger with the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) in 2007 helped MTR in Railway operations and related businesses accounted for a acquiring rail-related businesses and projects. The merger major share in the revenue generation of the company in 2008. is further expected to consolidate the scale and profitability The revenue contribution from rail operations in 2008 stood at of the rail-related operations. MTR is also working on USD1.48 billion, an increase of 61 per cent over the previous fiscal. network expansion projects. The extension of the Island The rail related business segment, such as providing consultancy Line comprises underground stations at , services, bandwidth services on the railway telecommunication University and Kennedy Town. The company is planning system, freight, leasing advertising and retail space businesses, to add six new lines of about 60 km to its rail network. This contributed USD445.03 million (98 per cent increase). The will result in increased sales. MTR is also planning to invest property ownership, management and other business segment USD85.27 million to acquire 10 new trains from Changchun responsible for managing, developing, selling and leasing Railway Vehicle Company Limited. The new trains, commercial and residential properties at existing railway land expected to begin operations between 2011 and 2015, will assets and new railway projects contributed USD349.94 million increase services, which could, in turn, improve revenues. (47.9 per cent increase). Threats: The transportation sector is highly competitive MTR has continued its impressive performance in the first and MTR faces challenges from Hutchison Whampoa half of 2009. Its overall share in the franchised public transport Limited, Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited, and New market has increased to 42 per cent, as against 41.6 per cent during World Development Company Limited in winning contracts the same period in the previous fiscal. Revenue from stations and deciding prices and service levels. The revenue may and rail related businesses stood at USD213.29 million, also be affected by the current financial downturn. representing an increase of 0.5 per cent over the same period in the previous fiscal.

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Bus Rapid Transit operators then have to be compensated. Private operators are thus protected against arbitrary tariff changes by the government. Lessons from Latin America Another important measure that ensured smooth implementation of the BRT systems in the region was involving former operators in the planning process and offering them the he past few years have seen a renewed interest in Bus Rapid opportunity to be a part of the new system. This participatory TTransit (BRT) as a cost-effective and sustainable solution for approach helped to avoid protests and work stoppages. better public transport in congested cities. Several new BRT systems have been put into operation recently in different parts An important challenge in implementing the BRT systems is of the world: Jakarta, Beijing, Istanbul, Sydney, and Lagos to name sourcing finances for infrastructure development. In the Latin only a few. While some have been highly successful, others have American cases, the financial resources came from fuel tax, local faced challenges. Many more systems are being planned, city revenues, credit from global and regional lending institutions designed or are under construction. Most of them have been such the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and modelled on the successful early examples from Latin America. CAF, and grants by the federal governments. Brazil was the first country to introduce a BRT in the late ‘70s In order to popularise BRT, Bogota’s local administration in the city of Curitiba, Parana. The system, called Rede Integrada launched a structural change in public transport conditions with de Transporte (RIT), with its modern bi-articulated buses put a view to reduce the use of motorised transport. The measures the city on the world map. Twenty years later, Bogota in Colombia included constructing pedestrian walkways and bikeways, and Quito in Ecuador implemented BRT systems, largely based imposing vehicle restrictions in peak periods, raising parking on Curitiba’s RIT. prices, and imposing day-long automobile bans. Proper urban planning, compatible with the new BRT systems, has been However, it was the instant success of Bogota’s TransMilenio another contributing factor. This synergistic approach was system which primarily led to the surge of interest in BRT. Other possible due to the strong political will of the city governments. Latin American cities followed suit - Goiania and Sao Paulo in Brazil, Guayaquil in Ecuador, Guatemala City in Guatemala, and Most Latin American BRT systems are very similar from a Mexico City and Leon in Mexico. Colombia now has two more technical perspective as well, with operational features being operational systems: MIO in Cali and in Pereira. regularly copied from Bogota’s TransMilenio and Curitiba’s RIT. The most common features include the feeder-trunk scheme, the BRT systems have succeeded in reducing travel time and use of articulated or bi-articulated buses, limited stop and express offering greater comfort and safety for passengers. Moreover, services, and prepayment of fares. Most systems use bus lanes most of them are financially self-sufficient and need no segregated from the rest of the traffic and at height boarding. government subsidies. The policies, institutional and operational measures undertaken by city governments have contributed to While a consensus of sorts has emerged on the policies and the success of these Latin American BRT systems. frameworks (institutional and operational), implementation varies in different cities. In Curitiba and Bogota, the BRT systems Most of these systems are based on a public-private have been built in gradual phases, giving enough time to the partnership (PPP). In general, a public entity is responsible for public to understand and use it. the planning and control aspects and for providing infrastructure (busways and stations), while operations and fare collection are In some other cities, such as Chile’s Santiago, the city provided by private companies through concession contracts. government’s decision to change all former bus routes to BRT on the same day backfired. Public transport restructuring, when However, contractual arrangements with private operators introduced gradually, has a greater chance of being accepted. vary. In Curitiba and some other Latin American BRT systems, a Guatemala City’s Transmetro and Guayaquil’s Metrovia followed monopoly of the former bus operators was allowed to take control TransMilenio’s example and have proved to be successful. of the new business. In Bogota, the new services were competitively tendered to four separate operating companies. The Latin American experience indicates that BRT is an The performance of these companies is continually monitored effective solution to improve public transport, especially in against a set of performance indicators spelled out in their today’s financial scenario. BRT systems can be built at one-third contracts. If they fail to meet the targets, they are fined. of the cost of a light rail transit (LRT) system or at a fraction of the cost of a metro system with relatively faster implementation. As a policy decision, the contracts with the private operators were structured in such a way that the operators were reasonably BRT is also an eco-friendly solution. As major cities continue insulated from the demand risk, namely, that ridership being to grow, it will become even more important to implement lower than anticipated. BRT operators are paid per km in Curitiba strategies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the transport and Bogota which means they are paid a certain amount sector. TransMilenio is the first BRT project to be registered under regardless of demand. This structure ensures that operating the Clean Development Mechanism for carbon credits. companies have a vested interest in maintaining good service While most of the new BRT systems are less than a decade and promoting the system in order to retain ridership. old, it may be premature to be definitive about their long-term In most cases, the PPP model ensures financially sustainable sustainability. Nevertheless, drawing from various detailed BRT systems. Private control over operations shields the system studies of Bogota’s TransMilenio and the long-standing success somewhat from the political process. For instance, in Bogota, of Curitiba’s RIT, mass transit planners are becoming more and profits from the BRT system cannot be diverted directly to other more certain that well planned and executed BRT is an excellent public funds. The city government gets only 4 per cent of the solution for congested cities which want to improve public farebox revenue. It is allowed to reduce the passenger fare but transport and urban mobility in a sustainable way.

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GCC Metro Plans will be operational by summer 2010. In full operation, the Red and Green Lines of the Dubai metro are projected to carry about 1.2 million passengers on an average day and 355 million Ambitious investment plans for metro rail sector passengers a year, reducing road congestion by up to 17 per cent. The contract to build the Red and Green Lines is with the he mass-transit sector is fast becoming one of the biggest Dubai Rapid Link (DURL) consortium which comprises Tinvestment destinations in the Arabian Gulf region as the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), , governments begin to direct their attention towards developing , Kajima of Japan and Turkey’s Yapi this previously neglected area. Subsidised fuel and low vehicle Merkezi Insaat ve Sanayi AS. These lines will be operated and tax have made Gulf residents heavily dependent on motoring. maintained by the British firm Serco for a period of ten years. Moreover, with Gulf countries witnessing annual population growths of 5-8 per cent, urban areas are facing increasing Project: Dubai Metro congestion. This is forcing governments to invest in improving public transport infrastructure. Almost every member country Estimated Investment Required: USD7.5 billion of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has announced plans for Project Status: The of the metro has been launched massive spending in this sector, with rail projects accounting for with 10 out of 29 stations being fully operational. a major chunk. The GCC region is projected to invest more than USD100 billion over the next decade in rail projects. Stage 1 of the metro (comprising the Red and Green Lines) Within the rail segment, metro rail projects are being touted was originally estimated to cost about USD4.2 billion. However, as a big investment opportunity. GCC countries are now there have been massive cost overruns and the latest estimate of motivated to build metro rail networks not only to cope with the cost stands at over USD7.6 billion. Dubai’s Road & Transport their rapidly growing urban populations and increasingly Authority (RTA) projects that the metro will generate revenues congested roads but also to help sustain their economic in excess of USD4.6 billion over the next ten years. development. Metro projects are expected to spur the ailing construction sector in the GCC region as demand accelerates for The second stage of the metro project includes two more lines overbridges, roads, flyovers, interchanges and parking complexes (the Purple and Blue Lines). The Purple Line will run 49 km, that feed into the metro system. The real estate sector will benefit with 8 stations and will be an express link between Dubai from an increase in prices for projects close to metro lines. Metro International Airport and International Airport. Parsons projects will also drive down energy requirements for the Brinkerhoff is the design consultant of this line. The tender for transport sector and reduce environmental pollution. the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the line is expected to be conducted in the fourth quarter of Almost every member country of the Gulf 2009. The line is slated for completion in 2012-13. The , which is still in the conceptual stages, will be built after the Purple Cooperation Council (GCC) has announced Line and is expected to be 50 km in length. The tender for plans for massive spending in this sector, with consultancy services for this line may be floated later this year or early next year depending upon the state of the global financial rail projects accounting for a major chunk. The economy. Given funding constraints, it is being speculated that GCC region is projected to invest more than these two lines may be developed under a public-private USD100 billion over the next decade in rail partnership (PPP) model. projects. By 2020, RTA expects to have 318 km of metro lines in the and hopes that 30 per cent of the city’s population will use this mode of transport. To further reduce the city’s reliance To reap the benefits of a metro, a pipeline of major projects is on road transport, the RTA is considering building light-rail lines slated to be developed over the next five to ten years in the GCC that will serve as feeders to the Dubai metro. region. With little oil, Dubai has, over the last decade, invested in the best infrastructure in the Gulf to attract international investors. (UAE) With the metro project, it has once again proven its aim to become a leading international city. Leading the way as always is the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with its new Dubai metro system. This is the first urban rail Not far behind Dubai is the rich neighbouring emirate of Abu system in the GCC region and once complete will be the longest Dhabi with its ambitious plans for a 131-km metro network. This fully automated metro network in the world. project is part of the Abu Dhabi Master Transport Plan 2030 which includes development of about 580 km of high-speed railway The Dubai metro project is being built in two stages. In stage lines and about 350 km of light rail tram system. one, two lines (the Red Line and ) are being built. Construction on the first stage began in 2005, with the first section The Abu Dhabi Executive Council (ADEC) is currently of the Red Line becoming operational in September 2009. reviewing bids for the consultancy contract for the metro project. Six firms/consortia have been shortlisted. These include: the The Red Line is 52.1 km in length (4.7 km underground) and Adapt Consortium (Aecom, DB International, Parsons has 29 stations. Of these, only 10 have been completed and opened Brinkerhoff); Atkins/Bovis Lend Lease; Dar al-Handasah, Egis, to public. The Green Line is 22.5 km in length (7.9 km Gestisa, Inco Tifsa; Mott MacDonald, Parsons International, underground) with 20 stations. The remaining stations on the Halcrow; the Adim Consortium (Coteba, Khatib & Alaani, Red Line will open in stages by spring 2010 and the Green Line

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Oberymeyer, ILF Consulting Engineering, Consult, will connect the area to Jeddah Airport and the planned national Dornier); and Systra, Arup, Lowi and Foster & Partners. The rail network. consultancy contract is expected to be awarded before the end of Construction Corporation is building the 2009. Construction of the metro system is slated to begin in 2011 metro network, estimated to cost USD1.8 billion. French and completion is targeted for 2016. company Thales has been awarded the contract to provide driverless train control and telecommunication systems. Project: An automatic light-metro within the Princess Noura Bint Estimated Investment Required: USD7 billion Abdulrahman women’s university in Riyadh is planned to be Project Status: Six consortia have been shortlisted for metro operational by 2011. The Saudi Binladen Group is the general construction contract, which is expected to be granted by end contractor for the project. Earlier this year, the company awarded of 2009. Construction is estimated to start in 2011 and comple- a USD320 million contract to the Ansaldo STS/AnsaldoBreda tion in 2016. consortium to design, build and commission the metro system.

The successful launch of the Dubai metro has triggered a wave Qatar of metro projects in other GCC countries as well. Qatar has developed a massive plan to overhaul its railway network which includes proposals to build a metro system in the capital city of Doha. The largest of the GCC members, Saudi Arabia is planning a metro network in the holy city of Mecca and in its capital Riyadh. Project: Doha Metro Estimated Investment Required: USD5 billion Project: (Al Mashaaer Al Mugaddassah Metro) Project Status: The government is examining project plans and Estimated Investment Required: USD1.8 billion the construction contract is slated to be granted by the end of 2009. Project Status: Thales has bagged the contract to provide driv- erless train equipment. Metro is expected to be operational by November 2010 Germany’s Deutsche Bahn has been appointed as the consultant for Qatar’s rail project and the government-owned Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company has been appointed The Mecca metro, called the Al Mashaaer Al Mugaddassah to oversee the project. Metro, will be an 18-km, elevated system and will service three main areas (Arafat, Muzdalifa and Mena), each with three The initial plan for the proposed railway network comprises substations. It is scheduled to be operational by November 2010, five projects: an east coast freight and passenger line; a high- operating at 35 per cent capacity initially with automatic train speed link via the planned 45 km Qatar-Bahrain Causeway protection to assist manual driving. The fully automated system bridge; a freight link connecting with the proposed 1,500 km GCC is scheduled to be introduced in mid-2011. Once complete, the rail network; a 140 km light-rail network linking new system will have the capacity to move 72,000 passengers per hour developments north of Doha; and a Doha metro system consisting in each direction. The metro line is expected to reduce vehicular of six lines (based on the Qatar Transport Master Plan). At present, traffic by as much as 50 per cent. The line may be extended later Qatar is preparing to launch tenders for segments of the proposed to Al Haram and is the first of a proposed five-line network which rail network.

GCC Rail Projects

Project Country Investment Kuwait Kuwait USD6.6 billion Muscat rail Oman not available Doha Rail Qatar USD1 billion Saudi Landbridge Saudi Arabia USD6.6 billion Mecca - Medina Rail Link Saudi Arabia USD6 billion Mina Arafa Railway Saudi Arabia USD5.3 billion North South Railway Saudi Arabia USD2 billion Princess Noura University Monorail Saudi Arabia USD0.32 billion Jeddah Monorail Saudi Arabia USD3.7 billion Trans-Emirates Rail Network UAE USD3 billion Dubai Al Sufouh Tram UAE USD1 billion GCC Rail Network Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE USD25 billion

Source: GMT Research

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Plans for the Doha metro network have been presented to exploring the potential for an extension of the proposed Batinah the Qatar government. The construction contract could be rail system into the capital city of Muscat. awarded by the end of this year. Phase 1 of the three-phase metro The shape of a rail system within Muscat city will depend project involves construction of five segments with a total length largely on traffic impact studies currently being undertaken by of 85 km, originally scheduled for a 2015 completion date. The French consultants Systra Consulting, together with their local three phases of the network total 140 km, and have a preliminary partner the National Engineering Office. These studies will help completion date of 2026. determine whether Muscat should get a metro or a ground-level rail system, or a combination of both. Kuwait

Kuwait recently commissioned a study to develop a master plan Key challenges and the way forward for a land-based transport system in the country. The study is Although they have been late starters, the Gulf nations have being undertaken by a consortium of Atkins (UK), Parsons begun taking serious steps in developing urban mass transit Brinckerhoff (US) and Gulf Consult (Kuwait). systems. So far, many governments in the region have been waiting to see the response to the Dubai metro. But with rising Project: Kuwait City Metro fuel costs and increasing congestion, a sense of urgency has crept in about developing modern mass transit projects, especially Estimated Investment Required: USD7 billion metro systems. While the GCC may not be the largest market for Project Status: The project is on hold until consultants look metro projects, it is currently the one with substantial growth over the project plan and make their recommendations. potential. It is also likely that not all of the planned projects will survive, however, the governments are determined that a great many will. Initially a USD7 billion metro project was conceived for Kuwait City by the Kuwait Overland Transport Union. The project, which had been planned independently of the government’s new Funding is a major concern. The current study, must now be folded into the national transport strategy. economic downturn and difficulty in sourcing The project is on hold as planners await the outcome of the long-term project finance have impacted the master plan study. If the consultants recommend a metro system for Kuwait City, private investors may be roped in through the GCC metro projects. PPP model. Construction contracts for the metro lines will be awarded on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis. The invitation There are several challenges in developing metro rail projects to bid for construction contracts is expected to be issued in 2011 in the Gulf region. A pressing issue is the lack of established and completion of the project is currently scheduled for 2016. regulatory authorities to drive these complex projects. The UAE’s National Transport Authority for instance was set up only this Bahrain year, while the metro project was planned a long time ago. With no previous experience in developing mass-transit projects, the Bahrain also has plans for a metro or light-rail transit system. planning process is often very slow. An integrated public transport study is being conducted for the development of a rapid transit network in the country comprising Funding is a major concern. The current economic downturn a 29 km monorail line, a 21 km tram network, two light-rail transit and difficulty in sourcing long-term project finance have lines/metro (32 km and 32.7 km) and two bus rapid transit routes impacted the GCC metro projects. The UAE has so far been able (33 km and 36.5 km). to finance construction of its metro from its own coffers but others do not have the same flexibility and are likely to pursue the PPP route, which could lead to delays in realising projects. PPP deals Project: Bahrain Metro often involve private contractors taking on some project risk by Estimated Investment Required: NK financing construction themselves before transferring it to government clients. Project Status: Authorities are carrying out a study for the fea- sibility of deploying two metro lines. Part 1 of the study is over Metros, in general, are not considered profit-making ventures and part 2 is expected to be completed by September 2010. and thus do not always attract private investors. Private developers are also concerned about taking on long-term Part 1 of the study is over. Part 2, planned to begin in mid- partnerships with public entities. 2008 and be completed by end-2009, has been delayed because Another challenge is in bringing a change in people’s lifestyle. of the ongoing financial crisis. The study is now expected to be Metros’ success depends on weaning GCC residents off their cars. complete by September 2010. There may be delays but the country Security and safety are other issues in promoting the use of public is determined to ease the increasing congestion. transport, and if not adequately addressed, could derail the best government efforts. Oman While it is too early to measure the full impact of the metro, Oman is already working on a rail system plan for the country. the initial response to the Dubai metro can serve as a good In early 2009, a study was launched to analyse the feasibility of a indicator of GCC residents willingness to change the way they  rail system in the Batinah region. The authorities have been commute and to give public transport a chance.

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USA: Key characteristics for transit agencies operating buses

The following tables provide key characteristics for revenue year 2007 for 15 largest transit agencies operating buses in the US. Operating Characteristics (in thousands)

State Agency Vehicle Unlinked Average Passenger Fare Operating Revenue Passenger Weekday Miles Revenues Expenses Miles Trips Unlinked Earned Passenger Trips NY MTA New York City Transit 101,303 862,631 2754.7 1,812,108 $772,260 $2,092,094 CA Los Angeles County MTA 85,424 398,954 1258.2 1,491,339 $242,012 $857,825 NJ New Jersey Transit Corporation 68,431 152,197 527.6 920,864 $272,962 $638,830 IL Transit Authority 68,330 309,271 986.6 762,278 $261,650 $872,190 PA Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority 40,022 170,492 553.6 476,536 $151,557 $472,741 WA King County Department of Transportation 31,383 86,358 289.0 463,902 $64,551 $344,920 FL Miami-Dade Transit 35,654 83,458 264.1 427,627 $71,187 $319,328 DC Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority 38,431 131,490 441.2 410,762 $105,727 $480,773 TX Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County 30,605 69,390 243.6 397,539 $38,537 $226,656 HI Honolulu Department of Transportation Services 17,924 71,749 221.3 316,939 $41,742 $142,867 NY MTA Bus Company 25,537 110,270 362.2 297,555 $139,823 $454,956 MD Maryland Transit Administration 19,246 76,820 254.1 247,818 $60,344 $212,385 GA Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 23,710 69,465 226.9 208,464 $51,155 $186,974 MA Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 24,646 97,497 336.9 201,299 $68,223 $296,770 CA San Francisco Municipal Railway 12,178 90,303 289.6 198,255 $53,985 $200,186 Total 622,826 2,780,345 9,010 8,633,285 $2,395,715 $7,799,496 National Total (millions) 1,932 5,278 17 20,388 $4,474 $16,812 Data Source - National Transit Database (RY2007)

Infrastructure Characteristics

State Agency Fixed-Guideway Vehicles Vehicles Average Directional Operated in Available for Fleet Age Route Miles Maximum Service Maximum Service NY MTA New York City Transit 57 3,896 4,576 7.8 CA Los Angeles County MTA 95 2,248 2,681 7.4 NJ New Jersey Transit Corporation 37 2,112 2,477 8.4 IL Chicago Transit Authority 4 1,846 2,222 7.4 PA Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority 2 1,171 1,363 6.8 WA King County Department of Transportation 245 966 1,181 7.4 FL Miami-Dade Transit 52 839 1,062 5.2 DC Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority 95 1,285 1,504 6.9 TX Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County 281 1,020 1,290 7.4 HI Honolulu Department of Transportation Services 36 424 531 8.4 NY MTA Bus Company 17 1,137 1,344 5.5 MD Maryland Transit Administration 31 681 957 6.0 GA Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 16 522 621 5.4 MA Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 18 825 1,182 6.0 CA San Francisco Municipal Railway 8 369 461 7.8 Total/Average 992 19,341 23,452 6.9 National Total/Average 3,604 51,408 63,359 7.1 Data Source - National Transit Database (RY2007)

28 Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 Data & Statistics

USA: Key characteristics for transit agencies operating heavy rail

The following tables provide key characteristics for revenue year 2007 for 15 largest transit agencies operating heavy rail in the US.

Operating Characteristics (in thousands) State Agency Operating Fare Train Unlinked Average Passenger Expenses Revenues Revenue Passenger Weekday Miles Earned Miles Trips Unlinked Passenger Trips NY MTA New York City Transit $3,028,508 $2,030,025 37,888 2,390,403 7,710.5 9,646,775 DC Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority $696,335 $404,838 12,620 276,441 930.9 1,590,317 CA San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District $458,910 $281,494 8,607 109,020 361.8 1,368,045 IL Chicago Transit Authority $536,049 $198,020 11,969 190,273 619.8 1,115,899 GA Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority $171,626 $50,463 4,292 77,686 250.7 541,419 MA Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority $261,149 $125,471 4,197 143,667 483.2 514,158 PA Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority $143,739 $73,447 3,018 88,461 294.8 394,699 NJ Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation $223,567 $92,555 1,738 80,596 271.3 351,150 CA Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority $87,368 $23,739 1,305 40,883 127.2 194,032 FL Miami-Dade Transit $80,629 $13,435 1,524 17,505 59.4 134,408 NJ Port Authority Transit Corporation $39,202 $19,017 876 9,406 33.1 81,896 MD Maryland Transit Administration $50,550 $12,429 975 13,159 44.3 65,783 OH The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority $24,408 $5,361 1,228 7,450 26.1 53,400 NY Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority $32,906 $5,410 579 7,423 27.0 45,359 PR Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority $53,399 $9,874 816 7,823 26.8 40,612 Data Source - National Transit Database (RY2007)

Infrastructure Characteristics

State Agency Directional Miles of Stations Vehicles Average Route Track Available for Fleet Miles Maximum A g e Service NY MTA New York City Transit 493.8 835.0 468 6,388 22.6 DC Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority 211.8 269.8 86 972 18.6 CA San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 209.0 267.6 43 669 9.7 IL Chicago Transit Authority 207.8 287.8 144 1,190 23.7 GA Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 96.1 103.7 38 264 17.5 MA Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 76.3 108.0 53 408 24.9 PA Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority 74.9 99.8 75 369 14.7 NJ Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation 28.6 43.1 13 326 34.7 CA Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority 31.9 34.1 16 104 11.0 FL Miami-Dade Transit 45.0 55.9 22 130 25.0 NJ Port Authority Transit Corporation 31.5 38.4 13 104 33.7 MD Maryland Transit Administration 29.4 34.0 14 100 22.4 OH The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 38.1 41.9 18 60 24.0 NY Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority 28.6 32.7 23 64 36.0 PR Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority 20.6 25.5 16 74 5.4 Data Source - National Transit Database (RY2007)

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USA: Key characteristics for transit agencies operating commuter rail

The following tables provide key characteristics for revenue year 2007 for 15 largest transit agencies operating commuter rail in the .

Operating Characteristics (in thousand)

State Agency Operating Fare Unlinked Average Passenger Expense Revenues Passenger Weekday Miles Earned Trips Unlinked Passenger Trips NJ New Jersey Transit Corporation $724,437 $373,396 80,297 294.4 2,280,895 NY MTA Long Island Rail Road $1,034,924 $479,382 102,144 347.1 2,257,940 NY Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company $803,418 $476,561 79,720 275.0 2,127,148 IL Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corp. $490,678 $223,147 74,551 272.2 1,719,332 MA Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority $227,514 $123,021 38,816 140.8 790,801 PA Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority $197,362 $100,473 33,496 115.6 478,772 CA Southern California Regional Rail Authority $123,833 $62,275 12,019 45.3 414,113 CA Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board $74,758 $33,058 10,264 35.1 280,045 MD Maryland Transit Administration $76,897 $30,817 7,505 29.7 228,384 IN Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District $36,361 $18,735 4,246 14.3 119,310 FL South Florida Regional Transportation Authority $43,307 $7,263 3,408 11.5 107,981 VA Virginia Railway Express $46,192 $19,686 3,387 13.7 103,229 WA Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority $24,632 $6,623 2,157 8.0 52,987 CA North County Transit District $17,784 $6,368 1,561 5.8 43,148 CA Altamont Commuter Express $10,879 $3,988 707 2.8 33,613 Data Source - National Transit Database (RY2007)

Infrastructure Characteristics

State Agency Directional Miles of Stations Vehicles Average Route Track Available Fleet Miles for A g e Maximum Service NJ New Jersey Transit Corporation 996.8 884.0 162 1,078 18.1 NY MTA Long Island Rail Road 638.2 701.1 124 1,185 6.0 NY Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company 545.7 805.2 109 1,105 17.4 IL Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corp. 980.4 1,206.1 239 1,148 24.9 MA Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 702.1 648.4 126 451 17.7 PA Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority 446.9 609.5 156 357 31.9 CA Southern California Regional Rail Authority 777.8 653.4 54 193 11.7 CA Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board 153.7 136.7 32 139 16.7 MD Maryland Transit Administration 400.4 471.0 42 153 18.3 IN Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District 179.8 130.4 20 68 19.6 FL South Florida Regional Transportation Authority 142.2 152.2 18 44 17.8 VA Virginia Railway Express 161.5 161.5 18 99 30.4 WA Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority 146.9 146.0 9 41 5.9 CA North County Transit District 82.2 97.7 8 35 10.4 CA Altamont Commuter Express 172.0 90.0 10 20 7.4 Data Source - National Transit Database (RY2007)

30 Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 Finance

The project, worth USD8.32 million, will allow the third rail NORTH AMERICA heaters to be centrally controlled and turned on and off according to weather conditions, minimising electricity use and Los Angeles MTA approves 30-year USD300 billion urban mass- eliminating wasted energy. The system, which will be installed transit programme by January 2012, is expected to save USD1.6 million in costs annually. Los Angeles County’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has approved a 30-year USD300 billion programme to undertake a series of projects to reduce congestion in the city. Expiry of federal law funding mass transit may result in The projects will involve making bus and freeway improvements cancellations of projects and extending the subway system into West Los Angeles. Some portion of the funds will come from federal stimulus money and A federal law which finances the bulk of mass transit projects tax receipts from a tax hike in the last year. has expired, resulting in the possible cancellation of projects worth USD3 billion. State agencies may lose USD1 billion each month until there is a new bill. Los Angeles MTA submits rail project proposals for federal funding US DoT allocates over USD10 million to NFTA for hybrid buses The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will submit the plans for the Westside Los Angeles subway ex- The US Department of Transportation has granted over USD10 pansion (from Koreatown to Santa Monica) and light-rail link million to the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) through downtown Los Angeles (linking the Blue and Gold rail to purchase hybrid buses in Buffalo to improve the city’s public lines) for federal funding. The subway project is estimated to transit system. NFTA estimates a 25-30 per cent reduction in fuel cost over USD5 billion. Over the last six years, the MTA has re- consumption owing to the efficiencies of the hybrid buses. ceived USD80 million per year in federal rail funding through the New Starts program. However, in federal fiscal year 2011, Amtrak study estimates Pioneer line project to cost over USD400 the MTA may not receive any federal New Starts funds, mak- million ing project implementation difficult. An Amtrak study estimates that it may cost over USD400 mil- NYSERDA helps finance NFTA’s hybrid bus procurement lion to restart high speed rail services on the Pioneer Route in Idaho, which runs through Boise and Pocatello on its way from The New York State Energy Research and Development Denver, Colorado to Seattle, Washington, USA. The bulk of the Authority has granted USD1.1 million to the Niagara-Frontier costs will be used to renew the tracks for passenger rail. Union Transportation Authority (NFTA) for purchasing eight diesel Pacific, which owns most of the rail infrastructure from Denver hybrid-electric buses to operate in Erie and Niagara counties in to Portland, has estimated the cost at USD309 million. Connect- Canada. The buses will replace older, more inefficient diesel buses ing Boise to the line will cost an additional USD13.5 million. and be added to a fleet of 43 hybrid-electric buses. The funding The project costs will have to borne by taxpayers. will be part of the New York state authority’s “Clean-Fueled Bus Program” under which USD23 million has been awarded to 11 Federal funds to launch zero emission buses in Flint, Michigan fleets for 510 diesel hybrid-electric buses. NFTA is presently facing a funding gap since each clean fueled bus costs USD0.2 million The US federal government has allocated USD100 million to the more than the clean diesel models. Mass Transportation Authority in Flint, Michigan to procure two zero-emission hybrid buses (Fisher Coachworks GTB-40 all-elec- New York MTA to launch 5 year capital program shortly tric, plug-in) in 2010. The funding has come from the Federal Transit Administration’s Transit Investments for Greenhouse The New York Metropolitan Transit Authorities (MTA) has ap- Gas and Energy Reduction program, an American Recovery and proved a draft version of its next five-year capital program, cost- Reinvestment Act of 2009 initiative which promotes advanced ing USD28 billion (of which USD10 billion is required for the energy-and-emission-efficient mass transit solutions. project to be fully funded). This has been forwarded to the New York State legislature for final approval, which is expected to PRTC receives USD8.87 million federal grant to procure 3 come through by the end of 2009. The agency is planning to locomotives for VRE purchase 543 new subway cars and 410 commuter rail vehicles in addition to carrying out infrastructure improvements and The US Department of Transportation has awarded an USD8.87 upgrades. The programme also includes renovating 25 stations million grant to the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation between 2010 and 2014, at an estimated average cost of USD10 Commission for procuring up to three diesel-electric locomotives million each. to serve on the Fredericksburg and Manassas lines of the Vir- New initiatives include implementing switching fare ginia Railway Express. collection from the magnetic-stripe MetroCards to a contactless payment system, real-time customer information, and improved US government grants USD8 million to New Jersey rapid transit train control equipment to increase capacity and safety on both authorities subway and commuter routes. Meanwhile, the MTA has received USD2 million in recovery funds to install nearly 350 The US Department of Transportation has awarded New Jersey wireless control points linked to rail heaters, to save energy. over USD8 million in federal funds to improve intermodal sta-

Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 31 Finance tions and expand local bus services. The Freehold Township will lion. The spending cuts are a result of the city government’s receive USD1.29 billion for a bus facility terminal and repair CAD2.5-billion debt load in addition to an estimated CAD400- shop project and the Newark Penn Station Platform ‘D’ Reha- 500 million shortfall in its operating budget. TTC will have to bilitation Project will receive USD1.76 million to repair and re- defer or halt more than 40 projects, mostly planned for 2012, store a series of platforms. including modernisation of some subway stations, purchase of 50 clean diesel buses, installation of elevators and rapid-transit The Ridgewood Intermodal Station Improvements Project bus service on Yonge Street, etc. This is in addition to the CAD417 will receive over USD4.4 million to support construction activity million worth of projects that TTC has delayed so it could fund at the station on New Jersey Transit’s Main Line in Bergen two-thirds of its recent CAD1.2-billion purchase of new street- County. South Brunswick will get USD1 million to install bus cars from Bombardier. shelters along the Wynwood Drive to the Jersey Avenue Commuter Rail Station. Meanwhile, Congress has failed to pass [1 Canadian Dollar (CAD) = 0.9396 USD] a new six-year transportation law in the state, arousing uncertainty over future projects although existing projects will US DOT to allocate USD142.7 million to Pennsylvania transit not be affected. So far, Congress has extended the deadline for the transportation law by a month. projects The US Department of Transportation (DOT) will allocate Florida seeks federal funds for building commuter rail lines USD142.7 million in federal funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) 2009 to transportation projects in Three of Florida’s key urban cities, Jacksonville, Tampa-St. Pe- Pennsylvania. The funds will help rehabilitate existing infrastruc- tersburg, and Orlando, are seeking federal funds for building ture and replace equipment. Some of the planned projects that commuter rail lines like the Tri-Rail which connects the Miami- will receive funds are the rehabilitation of the Elizabethtown Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach corridor. However, the fed- Rail Station, rebuilding of ten vehicles, purchase of replacement eral authorities have notified the Florida state government that buses in Philadelphia and various other rail and station improve- it should not expect any more federal transit dollars until it fin- ment projects. ishes financing its Tri-Rail project. Meanwhile, also funded by the ARRA, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Amtrak has given a contract to the Jacobs Virginia applies for funding for high speed rail corridor Engineering Group for providing programme management and construction management services for more than 100 The government of Virginia has submitted its second application infrastructure improvement projects (at over 360 locations) to the federal authorities for USD1.8 billion under the American worth over USD560 million. According to the contract, Jacobs Reinvestment and Recovery Act to develop the I-95 Southeast Engineering Group will manage, procure and administer the High Speed Rail Corridor. The funds will finance 19 projects along design and construction of projects such as maintenance facility the Petersburg to Washington D.C. section of the corridor and upgrades, track work, security enhancements and various raise passenger rail speed by up to 149 km/hr by 2017. The 19 station improvements. projects include the construction of 112 track miles, four major bridges, 97 new crossovers, and the re-alignment of 82 track miles of curves. The construction work is projected to create nearly 12,200 jobs. The Commonwealth has worked in LATIN AMERICA conjunction with CSX, Amtrak, and Virginia Railway Express to complete the application. World Bank grants USD150 million to urban transport authorities

The World Bank has granted a 30-year USD150 million loan (with North Carolina applies for USD5 billion worth of high speed rail five-year grace) to support Argentina metropolitan area’s urban projects transport project, which aims to improve the urban transit sys- The North Carolina Department of Transportation has submitted tems by strengthening the decision-making framework and USD5 billion worth of applications for high-speed rail projects. prioritising public transport development. These include four projects for further development of the Argentina’s urban transport project has five components. Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor, adding double track, passing First, a metropolitan transport agency for the Buenos Aires sidings and building bridges to separate highway from rail. The metropolitan area will be created to improve transport planning improvements are aimed at enabling trains to reach speeds of 149– and management. Second, issues such as underinvestment in 177 km/hr on the nearly 500-mile long corridor between Charlotte road maintenance and infrastructure will be addressed. Third, and Washington DC. The transport authorities have worked with access to public transport and integration in Buenos Aires will the North Carolina Railroad Company, , be created. Fourth, sector training and designing a postgraduate CSX Transportation and Amtrak to complete the applications. programme in urban transport will be improved. Fifth component is project management. TTC to postpone transit projects due to CAD848 million spending cuts IDB grants USD1 million for metro feeder bus system in Santo Domingo The Toronto government in Canada has demanded a reduction in Toronto Transit Corporation’s (TTC) spending plans, outlined The Industrial Development Bank has granted USD1 million in in its recently approved ten-year capital budget of CAD848 mil- non-reimbursable funds out of its infrastructure fund to the Do-

32 Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 Finance minican Republic for aiding the design and implementation of Government approves USD441 million loan for São Paulo metro an integrated feeder bus system for Santo Domingo’s metro in extension Dominican Republic. The authorities are presently in the plan- ning stage and will use the funds to come up with general guide- The government of São Paulo has approved a USD441 lines for feasibility studies and the final master plan. The pilot million loan from the national development bank, Banco plan at the Mamá Tingó station is for feeder buses to arrive Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) for from the five principal sectors in northern Santo Domingo. The extending Line 5 of the São Paulo Metro. Transport authorities feeder bus system will be implemented till the Centro de los are planning to extend the line by 11.7 km, to build 11 new Héroes station. The technical cooperation agreement will last stations and procure 26 new trains. The project is expected to 18 months. be completed in 2013. São Paulo Metro Line 5 currently comprises a 8.4 km link Manaus plans to start USD1.15 billion mass transport project with six stations and eight operational trains. Construction work next year on the first stretch of the line, which runs between the Largo Treze and Adolfo Pinheiro stations, started in August 2009 and In preparation for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Brazil’s Amazonas is due to be finished in 2011. Total investment for the line is state capital Manaus will begin constructing a USD1.15 billion estimated at BRL5 billion, of which about BRL2 billion will come multimodal transport system in 2010. The system comprises a from multilateral financing agencies. The state government has monorail and a bus rapid transit system on the 14-km link be- already started processing requests for financing from the World tween Cidade Nova and downtown Manaus. Transport authori- Bank’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ties have already sent the technical design to the city government (IBRD) and the Industrial Development Bank for USD650 for approval. The project is estimated to be completed in 2013. million and USD481 million, respectively. Another BRL2.2 billion will come from the city and state governments. The São Paulo metro network is currently 61.3 km long. The government Rio de Janeiro to invest USD5.5 billion in transport projects intends to quadruple this to 240 km. The government of Rio de Janeiro intends to invest USD5.5 bil- [1 Brazilian Real (BRL) = 0.5698 USD] lion in transportation projects ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games. The city intends to expand and improve the city’s mass transit system, which is primarily based on buses. The government is exploring various options to implement bus rapid transit corri- ASIA PACIFIC dors. One route will run from the south of the city to the west, and the other will run from the west to the north. Investments in Azerbaijan Railway negotiates loans worth USD665 million railroads, subways and airports are also planned. Azerbaijan Railways is seeking a USD450 million loan from the World Bank to finance the changing of its energy systems, mod- Brazil’s plans for USD19 billion bullet train facing trouble ernizing its communications and signal systems and purchas- The Brazilian government’s proposed five year plan to launch ing 50 electric locomotives operating on alternating currents. The bullet train services to link Río de Janeiro, São Paulo and railway operator is also negotiating another loan from the Czech Campinas may be scrapped due to copper thefts. Copper theft Bank. These funds are expected to be spent on the development has become a serious problem as high-speed trains require large of road infrastructure on the Baku-Boyuk-Kesik plot. quantities of the metal (1 km of catenary uses 10 tonnnes of cop- per). The authorities are considering launching an underground Saudi bank to finance Pakistan Railways project system instead but this will increase the project cost, which is already at an estimated USD19 billion. Presently, the govern- A Saudi Bank has signed an agreement with a consortium com- ment banks on covering 20 per cent of the project cost and hav- prising Bombardier Transportation and China Railways Signal ing the concessionaire finance the remainder. Private transport and Communications Corporation to finance the first phase of a firms have complained that the government’s five-year imple- project to replace the signalling system on the Pakistan Railways. mentation plan is too short to develop the rail system and that According to the agreement, modern, electronic, the design and construction will take at least 2-3 more years. systems will be installed on 23 stations from Bin Qasim to Mirpur The government’s plans involve concession for 40 years. The Mathelo. As part of the second phase of the project, interna- concessionaire will have to build 510 km of tracks, install the tional tenders for the design, manufacture, supply, installation operating system and provide the technology. and commissioning of modern signalling systems on the Lodharan to Khanewal and Khanewal to Shahdara Bagh sec- tions are underway. Chile MoP releases 2009-10 concessions plans The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has sanctioned a The Chilean Ministry of Public Works (MoP) has proposed 18 USD140 million loan to Pakistan for revamping the signalling projects worth USD3.18 billion for 2009 and 2010. The projects in system on its national railways. The contract agreement will now 2009 are worth USD1.13 billion and include the construction of be finalised. the Arica-Visviri railway (USD23 million) and the building of several public transport corridors for Santiago’s mass transport The funds will be used to install automatic protection systems system Transantiago. The MoP is also analysing private initiatives in 160 locomotives and finance the procurement, installation and of USD4.57 billion including a USD3 billion low-altitude commissioning of equipment. It will also go into undertaking Trasandino Central rail tunnel. training, project supervision, consultancy assignment, and project

Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 33 Finance contingency work. Work on the signal installation is expected to Thai transport ministry introduces Bangkok underground be completed by 2012. The existing signalling equipment in extension plan Pakistan consists of old mechanical gear. The interlocking system at 40 stations was installed in the1960s. The Thailand Transport Ministry has unveiled a THB82 billion plan to construct a 27 km long extension of Bangkok’s underground The project is important because the signalling systems on train service. About THB52.46 billion is estimated to be required various stations in the Karachi and Sukkur divisions of Pakistan for construction work, which includes the maintenance cost of Railways have been badly damaged. THB2 billion. The maintenance cost may be waived however if Bangkok Metro Public Company Limited is chosen as the opera- Philippines to tap funds from China for LRT south extension tor for the proposed extension as it will be able to access mainte- project nance service from its Rama IX center. The funds for the construc- tion of the project will be borrowed from domestic sources while China may offer Official Development Assistance to the the government is expected to contribute THB60 billion. The project Philippines Department of Transportation and Communication cost also includes THB2.1 billion as charges for a consultant com- (DOTC) to help it finance its Light Rail Transit (LRT) Line 1 South pany, and THB22.4 billion as costs towards railway and infrastruc- Extension Project. The DOTC has submitted a recommendation ture management by a private operator, to be authorised by the to this effect to the National Economic and Development Mass Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA) of Thailand. The two-part Authority. The project, estimated to cost around USD1.88 billion, extension from Hua Lam Pong to Bang Kae and from Bang Sue to involves extending the existing 15-km LRT 1 by an additional Ta Phra will be 27 km long. The MRTA is likely to invite bids for 11.7 km. Of this, 10.5 km is to be elevated and 1.2 km is to be at- the construction work in November 2009, and the contract is ex- grade. The extension will cross Parañaque and Las Piñas to reach pected to be awarded by the end of 2010. Construction of the two Bacoor, Cavite. The project will also involve setting up eight extensions is expected to be complete before 2016. new passenger stations, with provision for two additional ones. (1 Thai baht [THB] = 0.0299 USD) Earlier, it was proposed that the project be implemented via a public private partnership. Meanwhile, the transit authority is also planning to start construction of the 4-km eastern extension Bank of Taiwan to lend TWD382 billion to THSRC of Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Line 2 from Santolan to Masinag Market in Antipolo. The authority may tap funds from the Land The Bank of Taiwan will lend up to TWD382 billion to the Taiwan Bank of the Philippines, the Development Bank of the High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) for constructing three new Philippines or the Japan International Cooperation Agency to high-speed railway stations early next year. TWD308.3 billion of finance the extension from Pasig to Rizal. Work on the project is the loan will be guaranteed by the government. While the THSRC expected to start in January 2011. has provided its tracks, trains, stations and other equipment as collateral, the Bank of Taiwan had wanted THSRC’s founding shareholders to jointly guarantee the remaining TWD73.7 billion. Global rail proposes USD8 billion rail plan in Malaysia THSRC is looking to settle its refinancing plan before THSRC’s current debt payments are due in November 2009. The Railway equipment manufacturer, Global Rail, along with its construction of the stations in Miaoli, Changhua and Yunlin Chinese partner, China Infraglobe Consortium, has submitted a counties will begin in January 2010 and is estimated to be USD8.3 billion plan to the Malaysian Ministry of Finance for completed by June 2015. constructing a high-speed railway in the country. The system, which will be built in four phases over a decade, will link (1 Taiwan Dollar [TWD] = 0.0311 USD) economic corridors to major airports and seaports. China Infraglobe Consortium will provide the funds for the project, Macau Light-Rail project cost increases by 80 per cent which is in line with the government’s 2020 National Physical Plan on Transportation. Track laying for the project will be The cost of the Macau Light-Rail project in China has escalated conducted in four phases - Phase 1 from Johor Baru to Gemas, by about 80 per cent from HKD526 million in 2007 to HKD940 Phase 2 from Gemas to Tumpat in Kelantan, Phase 3 from Kluang million. This is largely attributed to international price rises as to the KL International Airport, Port Klang and the Port Klang well as modifications in the project plan. The project is being Free Zone in Selangor, and Phase 4 from PKFZ to Perlis to the financed by the Government of Macau and it was earlier esti- border of Thailand. mated that it would take about 48 months to complete the works. However, construction work on the project is now expected to Thai cabinet grants approval to lease 4,000 natural gas-fuelled begin by the second half of 2010 and be completed by 2014. The buses for THB64 billion original construction plan has been altered to include a 2.6-km tunnel in Nam Van and Sai Van, as well as four substations. The Thailand Transport Ministry has received the cabinet’s ap- Originally, the first phase of the project involved construction proval for Bangkok Mass Transit Authority to lease 4,000 natu- of a 21-km line with 21 stations to connect major entry-exit points ral gas-fuelled buses for THB64 billion. The project has been at the Macao peninsula and Taipa Island. pending approval for 10 years. Tenders for the project are likely (1 Hong Kong Dollar [HKD] = 0.1290USD) to be launched this year. The first batch of 1,500 buses is expected to be delivered within 15 months of the contract signing and the rest will be delivered in 24 months. The buses are expected to Vietnam Railways to build USD1.2 billion railway line using BOT deliver passenger services in two years. State-owned Vietnam Railways and a consortium of seven South (1 Thai Baht [THB] = 0.0299 USD) Korean companies (including Samsung, Daewoo, Ska, Kumho

34 Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 Finance and Kangnam) have finalized plans to construct a USD1.2 bil- latter’s inability to inject sufficient funds in the same. Since then, lion railway track in Vietnam’s capital city Hanoi. The project transport unions have urged the government to take back involves constructing a 33.5km rail line connecting the city cen- National Express’ profitable rail operations c2c and National tre to its western outskirts and building an express railway line Express East Anglia as well since the transport operator should linking city in the central region of Vietnam to Ho not be permitted to “cherry pick” its assets. Chi Minh City. The project will be carried out in two phases un- National Express will now continue with its GBP400 million der a build-operate-transfer (BOT) contract. The consortium will rights issue to reduce its GBP1.1 billion debt. The loss making invest USD574 million for the first phase (the construction of 11.3 transport operator, which continues to be at the centre of takeover km of track) and USD653 million for the second phase. speculation, is also working on its financial results. It has warned that pre-tax profits are likely to be below previous forecasts. Afghanistan railway project to receive ADB financing (1 British Pound [GBP] = 1.6594 USD) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will contribute USD165 million to finance the first railway project in Afghanistan. The WP Carey enters into a sale leaseback with National Express 75-km long rail project, running from ’s border to the city of Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan, is estimated to require an Investment management company, W. P. Carey and Company, has investment of USD170 million. The Afghanistan government will entered into a sale-leaseback transaction worth USD26 million with put in the remaining USD5 million. Work on the project is ex- UK’s transport operator, National Express. The property acquired pected to begin in 2009. The contract for railway construction will house National Express’ main coach terminal. The lease has a has been awarded to the Uzbek national railway company term of 25 years and will commence in December 2009 when the Uzbekistan Temir Yollari. Design firms and contractors are likely construction of the facility is expected to be completed. to be selected in November 2009 and the project is expected to be (1 British Pound [GBP] = 1.6332 USD) completed by 2011. It is the first phase of a wider initiative to develop the rail network in Afghanistan, linking Herat to Tajikistan and Pakistan. Competition Commission approves Stagecoach’s acquisition of Eastbourne Buses and Cavendish Motor Services

The UK Competition Commission has approved Perth-based bus EUROPE company Stagecoach’s proposal to purchase competing bus ser- vice providers, Eastbourne Buses and Cavendish Motor Services, National Express rules out merger with Stagecoach after CVC- which cater to customers in Eastbourne. In August 2009, the Cosmen deal falls through Commission had disapproved the deal on the grounds that it would substantially reduce competition in the region. However, UK-based passenger transport company, National Express, has since then Stagecoach has sold part of its operations in the ruled out a possible merger with Australia-based rail operator, Eastbourne depot. The Competition Commission has also taken Stagecoach. National Express was concerned that the Stagecoach into account new information that Cavendish Motor Services deal could not be completed before Christmas 2009 when it faces has been operating unprofitably and may have to either reduce GBP5 million in penalty interest payments for its debt. There services substantially or close operations altogether. In Novem- was also a risk that competition regulators would delay or even ber 2008, Stagecoach acquired Eastbourne Buses for GBP4 mil- block the merger. Stagecoach has gathered funds worth around lion, and in January 2009 it bought Cavendish Motor Services GBP300 million for its planned all-stock acquisition. The deal as well. Both companies were merged under the name Stage- was to be in the form of an all-share merger, valued at up to coach Eastbourne. In May 2009, the Office of Fair Trading an- GBP2 billion. The Cosmen family, National Express’s largest nounced that it was referring the dual purchase by Stagecoach shareholder had announced its support for Stagecoach. to the Competition Commission. Earlier, the CVC-Cosmen consortium had pulled out of a deal (1 British Pound [GBP] = 1.6396 USD) to acquire National Express for GBP765 million after spending one month carrying out due diligence. The CVC-Cosmen consortium, comprising private equity player CVC and Spain’s DPP to access over CZK8 billion EU funds for mass transit expansion Cosmen family, had been granted three additional weeks till The Transport Ministry of is planning to help October 16, 2009, to decide whether to formalise its GBP765 finance the development and expansion of Prague’s underground million takeover bid for UK’s transport operator, National mass transit system in line with the Operating Programme on Express. However, the consortium had concerns over the terms Transport. This means that Dopravni podnik hlavniho mesta of the refinancing of National Express’s debt. Prahy (DPP) will have access to more than the previously Since then, National Express’ shares have fallen by one third, stipulated CZK8 billion from European Union funds for the decreasing the company’s valuation, at one point, by GBP250 expansion project. The ministry expects DPP to submit the plan million. The Cosmen family owns an 18.5 per cent stake in for the extension of the route from Dejvicka station to Motol soon. National Express and if the deal is sealed, National Express is Construction is expected to start in 2010 and last till 2014. The likely to be divided between CVC, the Cosmens and rival has three lines consisting of about 50 km of tracks transport operator, Stagecoach. (running mostly underground) and 50 stations. New stations continue to be added. Meanwhile, the government has taken back National Express’s loss-making East Coast Main Line franchise due to the (1 Czech Koruna [CZK] = 0.0560 USD)

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RZD to form a new independent market entity for long distance finance the construction of subways in Dnipropetrovsk and passenger business Donetsk. According to the ministry, the guarantees are important since they will facilitate funds from the Japanese Credit Agency. The Russian Railways, Rossiyskie Zheleznye Dorogi (RZhD) is Ukrainian contractors may participate in the construction work looking to create a new company for funding and operating its if Sumitomo Corporation is awarded the projects for long-distance passenger business. The detailed proposal will be construction of the subways. presented to the board of directors for approval. The proposed Federal Passenger Company will function as ‘an independent The Donetsk Directorate of Subway Construction is market entity’ with an equity capital of RUB136.8 billion and constructing the Proletarsko-Kyivska subway line from the will be 100 per cent owned by RZhD. RZhD is mulling over two station of Proletarska to Bilyi Lybid. This subway line is estimated investment scenarios: one, totalling RUB257.4 billion in 2010- to be 10.9 km long and have six stations. The first phase of the 20 or two, RUB442.5 billion. While the first scenario envisions subway line is expected to be completed by 2012, ahead of the the purchase of 1,540 vehicles over the next three years and 4, 2012 European soccer championship. 080 carriages in 2013-20, the second involves buying 1,698 ve- hicles in the first three years and 6,864 by 2020. (1 Russian Rouble [RUB] = 0.0342 USD) MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA

Dubai RTA to tap private sources for funding rail projects EIB grants EUR500 million loan for Paris tram extension The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is considering The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted the Paris regional the public-private partnership model for implementing future rail rapid transit authority a 25-year EUR500 million loan for extending projects. It is presently revisiting its original plan of funding the its tram system by 14.5 km (between Porte d’Ivry and Porte de la Red and the Green lines of the Dubai metro through private Chapelle) and adding 26 new stations. The EIB has already granted sources. To this end, it is prepared to accept proposals and enter the transit agency EUR130 million for the construction of the first into partnerships with the private sector. section of the tramway in the southern district. The project is part of France’s urban mobility plan. Construction work on the tram In order to make rail projects attractive to the private sector, extension started in early 2009 and the project is expected to be the authority will provide access to revenues accrued through commissioned by the end of 2012. The circular tramway will station-naming rights, retail units at stations, nearby real estate complement the radial underground railway system and improve development and advertising. passenger transport systems in the city. Overall, the Dubai RTA plans to construct 240 km of metro (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4912 USD) rail lines and 250 km of tram lines in Dubai. The first part of the Red Line of the Dubai Metro was made operational on FirstGroup’s bus and rail revenue growth rate slows down September 9, 2009. In another major development, the Authority plans to launch Transport operator, FirstGroup, has witnessed a slowdown in personalised No. l Blue Cards for Dubai metro commuters by the growth rate of its bus and rail revenues in recent months. November 2009, which are intended to protect users from The company, whose rail franchises include First ScotRail and misuse of their metro fare cards. First Great Western, reported much higher demand for discount tickets and said two London commuter deals were receiving the maximum revenue support from the UK government. Its Nigeria government invests in railway and bus system upgrade rail revenues growth rate slowed to 1.7 per cent in the six months Nigeria’s federal government has approved funding worth to September 30, 2009. USD874.3 million for the Nigerian Railways Modernisation Growth slowed to 2.3 per cent in First’s UK bus division, Project. USD84 million will be spent on the railway track and which has been burdened with a much higher fuel bill this year. signal network upgrade of the 488 km Lagos-Jebba rail line, on Last month, the group launched its first UK Greyhound services, which work is estimated to be completed in ten months. between London and Portsmouth and Southampton. In the US, The grant includes funds for buying and installing a CNC where it operates 60,000 school buses, there have been further Wheel Lathe Machine and related works for the railways, on signs of weakness, as contract renewal rates have slipped from which work is expected to be completed in 30 weeks. The grant more than 95 per cent to 90 per cent. Slowing revenues have also covers capital parts, consumables and tools for 25 C25- led to a focus on budgetary control and cost-cutting across the EMPD diesel engine locomotives. The project covers the first group, which is predicting a challenging year ahead for the segment of the modernisation work from Abuja to Kaduna. The transport industry. FirstGroup has shed 4,000 jobs (mainly in plan for the modernisation work of the second segment from North America) to save GBP200 million a year. Lagos to Ibadan is pending approval. (1 British Pound [GBP] = 1.6332 USD) The government of Nigeria is also looking to ramp up its bus transport system in Abuja. In the current financial year, the Ukraine Ministry seeks government guarantees for subway government has granted the urban bus transit to three concessionaires including Sonic Global Resources, Nationwide construction loans Unity Transport Limited and Abuja Urban Mass Transport The Transport and Communications Ministry of Ukraine is Company with an average of 300 buses operating daily. looking to retrieve government guarantees for loans taken to (1 Nigerian Naira [NGN] = 0.0067 USD)

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per cent stake in the deal. The East Side Access project will NORTH AMERICA complete the Long Island Rail Road service, which will provide a direct route between Long Island and eastern Queens to capital expansion plan 2010-2014 and Manhattan’s East Side. Metro-North railroad expansion, USA In October 2009, New York MTA received a USD2 million Developers: Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) recovery fund to save energy by installing 350 wireless control points linked to rail heaters. Project detail and status: Launched in 1904, the New York subway system is one of the world’s oldest rapid transit systems. The project requires a total investment of USD8.32 million MTA is currently undertaking expansion and renovation projects and is expected to save about 23,000 MW (USD1.6 million) of on certain lines of the subway such as expansion of the Second energy per year. The system will be installed by January 2012. Avenue Subway on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (to be operational in phases beginning 2016-17, the date having been Dallas Light Rail Expansion Project, USA recently postponed due to design changes), the ‘7 Subway’ extension to the west side of Manhattan and the construction of Developer: Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) ‘Fulton Street Transit Centre’. Project detail and status: Currently, DART provides 72.45 km MTA also launched a 20-year programme to automate the (35 stations) of light rail transit (LRT) services on three routes, entire subway network. For this purpose, it will use the One coded as red, blue, orange and green. The red line, running along Person Train Operation system in conjunction with the North Central Expressway from Parker Road in Plano communication-based train control being built by Siemens travelling south to Downtown Dallas, then to Westmoreland in Transportation Systems. West Oak Cliff, was initially made operational in 1996. MTA has issued a USD1.4 million Accelerated Capital The blue line, running south from Downtown Garland in Program to enable completion of the proposed system on Garland to Downtown Dallas, then to Ledbetter in the South Oak and continue automations on the Queens Boulevard Line. Cliff, also became operational in 1996. Further, Siemens Transportation Systems is installing Public DART is planning to extend the existing LRT system under Address/Customer Information Screens at all stations for different service lines. Expansion projects are underway for green information on train arrivals by 2011. line, , and blue line. There are projects in the pipeline for the expansion of the The Southeast Corridor (green line) expansion comprises commuter rail network, referred to as the Metro-North Railroad. 16.25 km (8 stations) from Pearl Station to Buckner Station. In About 7 per cent of Metro-north’s USD1.8 billion capital plan for September 2009, service started on Pearl Station to MLK, Jr. the next five years (2010-2014) will be spent on the railroad to Station (4.35 km). The section from MLK, Jr. Station to Buckner expand and improve its train services. Station (11.9 km) is scheduled to open in December 2010. Planned projects include re-electrifying the Danbury Branch The Northwest Corridor (green line) expansion comprises of the New Haven Line on the East of Hudson section, with a 28.32 km (12 stations) from West End Station in Dallas to simultaneous expansion up to Milford; replacement to the Tappan Frankford Station in Carrollton. Zee Bridge on the West of Hudson section; a connection between the Port Jervis Line and Hudson Line; and an extension of the In September 2009, daily service started from West End Port Jervis Line service to Stewart International Airport. Station to Victory Station (1.93 km). Service on sections from Victory Station to Inwood Station (4.51 km), Inwood Station to Metro-North will also invest around USD225 million for new Bachman Station (5.15 km), Bachman Station to Farmers Branch rail car equipment. Further, Metro-North Railroad is planning Station (7.89 km), and Farmers Branch Station to North to install a new fare card system as well as electronic message Carrollton/Frankford Station (8.85 km) is scheduled to open in boards at more stations. December 2010. In August 2009, MTA released a USD25.5 billion capital The Northwest Corridor (orange line) expansion comprises programme for 2010-2014. The plan, which has been released 22.53 km (7 stations) from Bachman Station in Dallas to DFW for public consultation, focuses on rebuilding the transport Airport. Service on Bachman Station to Irving Convention Center infrastructure in the city. It includes introduction of 500 new Station (8.69 km) will start in December 2011, Irving Convention subway cars, 410 commuter , station signaling, train Center Station to Belt Line Road (6.28 km) will start in December control upgrades, and mobility-impaired access. 2012, and Belt Line Road to DFW Airport (7.56 km) will start in The MTA is also planning to launch contactless ticketing and December 2013. real-time customer information systems. However, as of The (blue line) expansion comprises 7.24 September 2009, the plan is facing a USD9.9 billion shortfall, km (1 station) from Downtown Garland station to a new which MTA may have to close with debt. Downtown Rowlett station. It will consist of double-track LRT In October 2009, MTA Capital Construction awarded a along the existing DART right-of-way that parallels USD659 million contract to a Granite Construction-led joint the Dallas Garland and Northeastern Railroad freight tracks. venture to build the tunnel link from Queens to Grand Central The Rowlett LRT station is expected to begin operations in Terminal in Manhattan. 2010. A bus transfer facility within the site will include multiple The joint venture’s other members include Traylor Brothers bus bays. Construction is scheduled to begin this year, with and Frontier-Kemper Constructors with Granite holding a 42.5 service starting December 2012.

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In September 2009, DART awarded a contract worth USD19.3 million to the Aecom Technology Corporation to provide project ASIA PACIFIC control, system integration and staff support services for the LRT lines under expansion. US-based L.B. Foster Company won the Expansion 2025, China contract to supply direct fixation fasteners and bonded insulated Developers: Shanghai Shentong Metro Company Limited joints for the first phase of the orange line. L.B. Project detail and status: Launched in 1995, the Shanghai Metro Foster is coordinating product shipments to the Northwest (officially known as the ) has evolved into Corridor expansion project to meet the scheduling requirements one of the fastest growing rapid transit systems in the world. of the general contractor joint venture, Kiewit/Stacy and Witbeck/ There are plans to increase the existing track length from the Reyes/Parsons Corporation. current 250 km (eight operational lines) to 877 km (20 routes) by In October 2009, Dallas-based Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) was 2020. By 2010, eight of these planned lines/extensions are awarded a contract to provide engineering design services for expected to be operational, taking the network length to about extension of the blue line. The contract is with Dallas-based 500 km. Austin Bridge & Road LP, which is the design-builder for the The latest addition to the system was the South Extension of project. , which began operation in July 2009. On completion of these lines, the existing numbering system will also be replaced by uniform numbering. LATIN AMERICA Since June 2008, the Shanghai Metro has been using a new interchange ticketing system called the Shanghai Public Sao Paulo Metro, Brazil Transportation Card (SPTC) for virtual interchange stations. The card allows discounted fares at these interchanges, ensuring a Developer: Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos unified fare collection system. The Shanghai Metro uses a (CPTM) distance-based fare system and has adopted a one-ticket network Project detail and status: The Sao Paulo state government is system since December 2005. planning to expand the metro project. By 2010, various The construction on 10 lines and their extensions has begun. acquisitions have been planned as part of the extension projects. These are Line 2 (Phase 2 of west extension, and east extension), To this end, CPTM has called for tenders for the purchase of Line 5 (south extension), Line 7 (Phase 1 and north extension), 33 new trains, of which nine will be used in the proposed 11-line (Phase 2), (main line and branch line), Coral and 24 in Line 8-Diamente. (main line of Phase 1, north part and branch line, phase 2 of north part), , (EXPO section and Phase 1), Under Line 8, the private player will be responsible for (part parallel to Shanghai East-West Express Way). Line 11, renewing the fleet with the construction of 24 new trains and the expected to be partially operational by the end of 2009, will be refurbishment of 12 units in operation. The project scope also the fastest subway train in the country. includes the maintenance of these 36 trains for 20 years. About USD900 million is likely to be invested in the fleet upgradation The remaining planned lines are Line 5 (north part to become and modernisation. Line 22), Line 5 (Phase 2 of south extension), ( Light Railway left part), Line 9 (Phase 3 east and Phase 3 south), To fund the acquisition for Line 11, the state government is Line 10 (Phase 2), Line 11 (Phase 3 of north part), Line 13 (Phase planning to borrow USD113 million from the International Bank 2), Line 14, , (phases 1 and 2), Line 17(phases 1 for Reconstruction and Development, one of the five institutions and 2), , (phases 1 and 2), and . Of of the World Bank group. these, construction on seven lines will begin in 2010. Of the total loan amount, USD110 million will be used to In April 2009, Shanghai Shentong Metro Company Limited purchase the trains and accessories for the state metropolitan awarded a contract to Standards Technical Services Company transport company. The remaining USD3 million is to be invested Limited (SGS-CSTC), of SGS Industrial Services, and Xuzhou in managing the manufacturing and implementation of the new Railway Engineering Department to provide independent trains and devising a climate change strategy plan. technical inspection of the track of eight metro lines being built The loan amount is likely to be approved by January 2010. to ensure that the track welding is in accordance with the codes The state government is likely to contribute USD48.5 million of the Chinese Railway Ministry. towards the project. Future orders have been placed with Bombardier for In October 2009, CPTM signed a contract with the consortium providing rolling stock for the existing lines. Moreover, with the of Invensys Rail, Brazilian engineering company Montagens e network expansions planned, the Shanghai Shentong Metro Projetos Especiais and Spanish telecoms supplier Infoglobal for Group is continually investing in new rolling stock. signalling and on the metro Lines 8, 10 Currently, the entire network uses gauge, which and 11. is the same as the Chinese rail network. This facilitates the Invensys Rail holds a 60 per cent share of the contract and transport of new train equipment for the metro network via the will be supplying its Sirius communication-based train control, national rail network. westrace , point machines and light emitting diode The city administration will introduce a tram service in the signals which will be installed along the existing equipment Pudong Zhangjiang area at an investment of USD87.7 million initially to minimise disruption. by the end of 2009.

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Beijing Subway Expansion Plan for 2015, China A new signalling system (an advanced communications- based train control system) is also running successfully on the Developers: Group (Beijing Infrastructure line. It has been deployed by a consortium comprising Alcatel- Investment Company Limited and Beijing Subway Operation Lucent Shanghai Bell, Thales Rail Signaling Solutions, Beijing Company Limited) Hua-Tie Information Technology Development Company and Project detail and status: The Beijing subway network, which is China Railway Telecommunication Signaling Construction one of the oldest in China (operational since October 1969) is Company. undergoing major expansion. The expansion plan was drawn In September 2009, the construction of Line 7 (Phase 1), up in 2007 to deal with increasing congestion given an annual between Beijing West and Jiaohuachang also started. The project average growth in ridership of 85 per cent. is slated for completion by 2014. The line is proposed to pass The plan outlines projects to more than double the network through the central business district of Beijing as per plans length from the current 200 km (eight operational lines, 123 announced in October 2009. stations) to 420 km by 2012, and finally reach 561 km (19 lines) The tendering process has not started for Line 14 (to be covering 203 stations by 2015. completed by 2014) and the western suburban line (to be By 2015, 16 new lines/extensions will be added to the existing completed by 2011). The remaining proposed lines, for which network, usurping ’s position as the world’s construction plans have not been finalised, are Line 6 (Phase II), longest metro system. Already, three lines opened in September Line 14 (Phase II), Line 15 (Phase II) and Changpin Line (Phase 2008 (Line 8 Phase I, and Airport Line) have added II) to be completed by 2015. 58 km of track length to the subway. In October 2009, Israel-based Nice Systems was selected by The expansion of the subway system will require an Beijing Metro to provide an IP video solution for enhancing the investment of USD29.2 billion. Financing and investment in the security on 24 stations of the proposed Line 15. The company capital expansion of rail transit is being undertaken by Beijing has already deployed its technology successfully on six other Infrastructure Investment Company Limited through its operational lines of the system. subsidiaries - Beijing Subway Construction Company and Beijing In October 2009, the Beijing Subway Construction and Urban Transit Railway Company Limited. Management Company Limited awarded a contract to CASCO The USD0.58 trillion economic stimulus package announced Limited, which is a joint venture between China by the Chinese government in 2008-09 and company-issued and Communication Corporation and ALSTOM (China) USD0.29 billion worth of ‘Beijing Subway Construction Bonds’ Investment Company Limited, to provide traffic signalling listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange have accelerated the system on the upcoming . timetable for subway construction. The construction work on 10 lines/extensions has started and Expansion 2040, China is at various stages of completion. These include lines 6 (Phase Developer: Guangzhou Metro Corporation I), 8 (Phase II), 9, 10, 15 (Phase I and II), and the Daxing, Yizhuang, Fangshan and Changping (Phase I) suburban lines. Lines 6, 8, 9 Project detail and status: The Guangzhou Metro (GZMTR), the and 10 are scheduled for opening by 2012; Line 15 (Phase I, fourth rail-based urban mass transit system to be constructed in Shunyi section) by 2011; Line 15 (Phase I, remainder) by 2013 the country, was launched in 1997 and is currently undergoing and the suburban lines by December 2010. The construction of expansion. Line 10 has been put out for USD1.17 billion loan bidding. From the existing four lines covering a track length of 116 In November 2008, Vision China Media Incorporated signed km, the network is scheduled to grow to nine lines covering over an exclusive agency framework agreement with the Beijing 250 km of track length (66 stations) by 2010 and eventually Subway Group to expand the company’s mobile digital exceeding 600 km by 2040. The total project cost is around USD87 television advertising networks to the operational sections of billion. lines 5, 8 and 10. The metro is owned by the city of Guangzhou and is The subway operates a diverse fleet of rolling stock, mostly managed and operated by the state-owned Guangzhou Metro sourced from domestic producers. Older cars, such as DK11 and Corporation, which also develops resources for future expansion DK16, which dominate Lines 1 and 2, have either been of the metro system. The existing lines cover Guangzhou city refurbished or will most likely be retired. as well as , Zengchen and Conghua. Line 1 was built on a turnkey basis by a consortium led by Siemens. is the In July 2009, China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock longest metro line in Guangzhou. In all, there are 802 cars Corporation Limited (CSR) won two contracts worth USD370 (hooked together into six-car sets) available as rolling stock for million to supply vehicles for the and Line 8 the operational lines. (Phase 2). The metro fare system involves the use of the Yang Cheng In September 2009, Line 4 started functioning. It is the first Tong Card, similar to the Octopus card used in Hong Kong. The Beijing subway line to be constructed on a public-private card is contactless and offers a 5 per cent discount per journey partnership basis by Beijing MTR Corporation Limited - a joint (travel from one station to another regardless of the distance). venture between the Hong Kong MTR Corporation (49 per cent), the Beijing Capital Group (49 per cent) and Beijing Infrastructure Seven lines are undergoing construction/extension. The Investment (2 per cent). The line is the first in Beijing to use ongoing projects include Phases 2 and 3 of Line 2 (to be completed superior shock absorption and noise reduction mechanisms. by 2010), Phase 2 of Line 3 (2010), Phases 3 and 4 of Line 4 (2010),

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Phase 1 of Line 5 (2010), Phase 3 of Line 8 (2010), Phase 1 of Line By November 2009, CMRL plans to invite bids for the supply 6 (2014) and Phase 1 of Line 9 (2013). Line 7 (Phase 1) is at the of passenger cars. As per initial estimates, a requirement of 168 project approval stage. coaches (42 train sets with a four-car configuration) has been estimated for the metro project. The other expansion projects under construction are the Delta Inter-City Rail Transit including the Guangfo Line On October 24, 2009, CMRL invited tenders for design and (32.97 km), Phase 1 of which will be operational by 2010 and construction of viaduct on Corridor 2. The opening date for the Phase 2 by 2012; the light-rail based Guangzhu Line (140.8 km) tender is November 9, 2009. connecting Guangzhou, Foshan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai; and a branch line from Zhongshan to Jianmen. Further, Phase 1 of the Metro Project, India Zhujiang New Town APM Line (3.9 km), to be operational by 2010, is also under construction. Developer: Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) In July 2009, the Guangzhou Metro Corporation awarded a Project detail and status: The 42.3 km long Bangalore metro signalling contract on a turnkey basis to a consortium of Alcatel- project, currently under construction, is being jointly promoted Lucent and Thales called Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell. by the union government and the state government of Karnataka. The contract involves the installation, management, network The metro project will be developed in two different corridors, integration and maintenance of a SelTrac Communications-Based namely east-west and north-south, with 41 stations. Most of the Train Control (CBTC) system along a 30.9 km track length metro system will be elevated, with only 8.82 km of it covering 11 stations. The project is expected to be in commercial underground. operation by October 2010. Estimated to require an investment of USD1.32 billion, the In October 2009, the Guangzhou Metro TV Media Company project is being financed on a debt-equity ratio of 70:30. The debt signed an exclusive 16-month contract with China-based Vision component of USD925.19 million will include USD330.44 million China Media for providing digitial television advertising on as subordinate debt and USD594.75 million as senior-term debt. Line 5. The equity component of USD396.36 million will be shared equally between the union and the state government. Under the long term plan for 2040, several new lines and extensions are planned. Work will begin after 2013. These are Currently, work on different sections of the project is Line 3 (Phase 4), Line 4 (Phase 4), Line 5 (Phase 2), Line 6 (Phase underway. BMRCL recently awarded the contract for supplying 2), Line 8 (Phase 3), and new lines 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, rolling stock to BEML Limited. About USD155 million will be 19 and 20. invested in 180 railway coaches during phase I of the project. For building the metro stations in the first segment (reach 1) Metro Project, India at various locations, BMRCL has awarded a contract worth USD15.66 million to IVRCL Infrastructure Projects Limited for Developer: Rail Limited (CMRL) six elevated metro stations along the S.V. Road and Ulsoor Stations. Project detail and status: A 45.1 km long metro project is to be constructed under phase I in Chennai, Tamil Nadu after having For stations along the C.M.H. Road and Byappanahalli, been approved by the union government on January 28, 2009. projects worth USD19.12 million have been awarded to a consortium of IVRCL Infrastructure Projects Limited and China Chennai Metro has two corridors, 23.1 km stretch from Railway 18th Bureau (Group) Company Limited (CR18G). For Washermanpet to Airport known as Corridor-1 and 22.0 km stations along the Trinity Circle and M.G. Road, projects worth stretch from St. Thomas Mount to Chennai Central known as USD18.02 million have been awarded to Punj Lloyd Limited. Corridor-2. For work along the second segment (reach 2), a contract worth CMRL appointed the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) USD40.3 million was awarded to Simplex Infrastructure Limited as the chief consultant for the first phase of the project. In February for construction of a 5.9 km long elevated structure. Contract for 2009, CMRL also appointed a five member consortium led by three stations on the stretch encompassing Toll Gate, Hosahalli, Egis Rail S.A., France as general consultants. and Vijayanagar has been awarded to Ahluwalia Contracts (India) The project is estimated to require an investment of over USD3 Limited at a cost of USD22.53 million. The work for another three billion. About 60 per cent of this will be met through a loan stations, at a cost of USD24.39 million, has been awarded to Punj granted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency. Lloyd Limited. The remaining 40 per cent will be contributed by the union Along the third segment (reach 3), a letter of award has been and state government. The state government recently released issued to a consortium of IDEB Projects Limited and Shanghai USD103.3 million towards the project construction Urban Construction Group for the construction of a 5.1 km long viaduct at an investment of USD43.19 million. Project work on In February 2009, CMRL awarded the first tender to three stations has been awarded to a joint venture of Punj Lloyd Hyderabad-based Soma Enterprise Limited for the construction Limited and Sembawang Engineers and Constructors at a cost of a 4.5 km long elevated viaduct from Koyambedu to Ashok of USD21.29 million. Work on three other stations at a cost of Nagar. USD21.08 million has been awarded to Larsen and Toubro The construction work, entailing an investment of USD41.15 Limited (L&T). . million, is underway. Prior to the piling work, soil tests are being On the fourth segment (reach 4), the tender for design and conducted. The project is expected to be operational by 2014-15. construction of a viaduct has been awarded to Nagarjuna

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Construction Company Limited at an investment of USD 31.2 is expected on the Metropolitan Line by 2010, followed by million. Work on three stations along the stretch has been Hammersmith and City, the Circle line in 2010 and the District awarded to L&T at an investment of USD16.39 million. Another Line by 2015. For short-term use, D-stock trains are currently two stations have been awarded to a consortium of IVRCL being refurbished. Moreover, 2009 stock by Bombardier Infrastructure Projects Limited and CR18G at an investment of Transportation is currently being rolled out on the Victoria Line USD14.78 million. to replace 1967 stock. Further, the 1973 stock on the will be replaced with 2014-stock by 2015. The corridors are expected to be completed by 2011-12. In August 2009, the government announced a proposal for In September 2009, BMRCL awarded a USD137 million introducing new technology allowing mobile phones and credit contract for control system on two metro lines to a consortium cards to be used to pay directly for journeys instead of tickets. led by French companies Alstom and Thales and Japanese company Sumitomo Corporation. Since September 2009, Oyster route validators have been installed at all underground and overground stations to ensure In October 2009, BMRCL announced that the underground accurate fare collection using Oyster cards, which are radio alignment of the metro was changed to reduce the permanent frequency identification enabled smart cards (contact-based and, acquisition in Cubbon Park to 2,126 square metres. The more recently, contactless). underground alignment does not run below important structures, namely the Vidhana Soudha, the High Court, the Central College The Tube has been operating under public-private and other buildings on Kempe Gowda Road. BMRCL also invited partnership since January 2003, with the infrastructure and domestic tenders for validation of bogie design of metro car. The rolling stock privately maintained. Of the two private companies, opening date for the tender is November 16, 2009. Metronet alliance exited the agreement in 2007 while Tube Lines is still operating. The UK government is looking for a private company to replace Metronet while TfL has taken over its EUROPE outstanding commitments. In September 2009, Tube Lines announced that it expected to Expansion of London Underground network, United Kingdom miss its December 2009 deadline for upgrading one of the system’s busiest routes, the . Developer: Transport for London (TfL) In October 2009, the first air-conditioned 58-S trains to be Project detail and status: The London Underground, popularly added to the rolling stock on Metropolitan Line have been referred to as the Tube, is the oldest underground metro in the supplied to London Underground. The train was tested on the world (over 150-years old). Each of the 11 operational lines (402 Amersham-Neasden track in June 2009. The entire A, C and D km) is undergoing capacity expansion, as well as measures for stock will be replaced with S-stock by 2015. better safety and faster journeys such as new computerised signalling, automatic (driverless) train operation (ATO), track Expansion of Overground, Heavy Rail and , London, replacement and station refurbishment. United Kingdom The White City and Shepherd’s Bush project, under which new stations were constructed on the Hammersmith and City Developer: Transport for London (TfL) and Department for Line, has been completed. Blackfriars station is closed for Transport (DfT), London rebuilding (to be completed by 2011) and King’s Cross St. Pancras Project detail and status: London is one of the few cities to have – expected to be crucial during the Olympics – is also being an integrated internal transit system in the form of road and rail redeveloped at an investment of USD1.38 billion (to be completed mass transit systems. The integrated mass transit system includes in 2010). the Underground, Light Rail, Tramlink, London Buses and the Improvements are being made to stations at Bond Street, National Rail network for . Green Park, Highbury and Islington and Southfields. There are To prepare for the 2009 Para-Olympics and 2012 London also plans to completely upgrade Victoria underground station Olympics, the entire road and rail network of the city is being at an investment of USD1.24 billion by 2017. However, the project augmented, with planned investments of over USD17.8 billion. faces an uncertain future given a funding crisis. The London Overground comprises four operational orbital Older stations are to be refurbished to ensure 100 per cent rail lines covering about 60 stations and a track length of 86 km. for disabled people. Since it is prohibitively Signalling works are expected to continue along the first three expensive to retrofit existing stations with or lifts, TfL lines up to December 2009. plans to completely rebuild a few older stations. The East London Line, which was formerly a part of the In June 2009, the first air-conditioned train was introduced underground network, has been closed and is being reconstructed for test runs on the Oxford track. The trains will be operational with four new accessible stations to connect the North London on all sub-surface lines in summer 2010. In June 2009, TfL issued line of the Overground. The East London Line Extension requires tenders to conduct a household survey and supply data to TfL an investment of USD2.92 billion of which European Investmetn for performance analysis. Bank (EIB) lent USD801.2 million. The underground uses rolling stock built between 1960 and USD140 million funding has been arranged for extending the 2005. Of this, the A, C and D stock on the sub-surface lines are South London Line under Phase 2 of the project, in order to create being replaced by over 200 trains of S stock. The first replacement an orbital network of the Overground by 2012. There are also

Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 41 Project Update proposals to re-extend the Bakerloo line to Watford Junction and tender for its two principal tunneling contracts – Package C300 withdraw overground services in the Queen’s Park to Watford for Tunnels West and Package C305 for Tunnels East. Invitations Junction section. to tender are due to be issued around November 2009 with the contracts likely to be finalised by mid-2010. The deadline for the TfL is launching brand new rolling stock of 54 trains on all receipt of expressions of interest was on September 28, 2009. The overground lines over the next five years (2009-14). Overall, 1,300 project involves driving two 6.2 metres internal diameter tunnels new carriages will be added to the city’s rail network. In 2009, - one of 6.2km from Royal Oak to Farringdon and another 8.3km TfL will introduce Class 378 Capitalstars, to be built by tunnel from Limmo to Farringdon. Bombardier Transportation, on a lease basis. The successful contractors will also design and construct a Twenty-four new trains are scheduled to run on the north tunnel segment manufacturing facility in order to ensure a London, west London, and Watford-Euston lines of the sufficient supply of tunnel segments when tunneling starts. Overground network by the end of 2009. About 20 trains will come into service on the East London line extension when The tunneling contracts are crucial to the completion of the completed in 2010, while 10 more are earmarked for the whole project and will enable 12 carriage trains to travel under network by 2011. central London from Maidenhead and Heathrow to Shenfield and Abbey Wood. , Morgan Est and Vinci Further, in 2011, the North London Railway fleet will be Construction and Austria’s Beton- und Monierbau have formed extended to four-car trains. TfL also plans to use new two-car a joint venture, BBMW, to jointly bid for the contracts. Class 172 Turbostar diesel trains and augment the 1972 stock trains to replace the newly-retired Victoria Line 1967 stock. There A new Crossrail station is being built at Tottenham Court are plans to refurbish the existing fleet of 94 rail cars. Since Road along with redevelopment of the existing tube station. A September 2009, Oyster route validators have been installed at design review panel is finalising the designs of the stations. As all underground and overground stations to ensure accurate fare rolling stock for the upcoming Crossrail, there are plans to collection. construct about 60 new five-car EMUs. The tramway system in south London has a track length of In December 2008, TfL and the DfT signed the Crossrail 28 km, covering 39 tram stops across three routes. Tramlink runs Sponsors’ Agreement, under which they will jointly finance the on a mixture of on-street and off-street tracks. It serves seven project cost along with contributions from Network Rail, the National Rail stations and one Underground station. The tram Canary Wharf Group, the British Airports Authority and the City network is to be extensively expanded. of London. TfL has prepared an initial review of the project potential In September 2009, TfL secured a USD1.64 billion loan from and is planning to undertake the initial development and EIB to fund the USD26.23 billion Crossrail project. It is one of the evaluation work on around 12 new lines/extensions. largest loans ever taken for a transport project. There are 14 terminus stations of the National (heavy) Rail The proposal for constructing an interchange between the network in London, serving the mostly suburban areas that (DLR) and Crossrail has also been remain uncovered by the Underground or DLR. The 2025 approved but construction work is contingent on Crossrail’s transport strategy of the Transport Department predicts a 40 per schedule. Meanwhile, the Croxley Rail Link proposal still remains cent increase in rail use by 2025. a proposal. It is planned that the Chelsea-Hackney Line will begin operations by 2025, and might be a part of either the underground The suburban commuter heavy rail services are operated by network or the Crossrail. a number of private firms. DfT has begun the selection process for the south central rail franchise and the winning bidder will The Thameslink programme is being carried out to augment be announced in the summer of 2010. the capacity of the 50-station Thameslink rail route by 2011. The proposed investment for it is USD9.79 billion. In October 2009, UK-based Thales secured a contract to upgrade the customer information system on the upcoming East The project is being implemented in three phases, under London Line extension. which stations will have longer platforms to accommodate 12- car trains upgraded to operate 24 trains per hour. Blackfriars and Crossrail and Thameslink, London, United Kingdom King’s Cross Thameslink stations are also being redeveloped under the programme. Key Output 1 and 2 of the programme Developer: Transport for London (TfL) and Department for are scheduled for completion by 2015. Transport (DfT), London In September 2009, Alstom unveiled its new commuter train Project detail and status: The Crossrail is a new scheme being design, X’Trapolis, which reflects the demands made to developed by Cross London Rail Links Limited, which will competing manufacturers by DfT and Network Rail for provide a new route across central London, integrated with the supplying 1,200 new trains for the Thameslink route. The modern Tube network. The project involves the construction of 21 km design is based on features such as single internal space with twin-bore tunnels underneath central London which will be vast openings and fewer wheels than the traditional machines linked to six underground lines at 10 stations. to reduce the train’s weight and track wear. The main construction for Crossrail will begin in 2010 while In October 2009, Sweden-based Skanska was awarded a preliminary construction work will begin shortly. Crossrail will USD94 million contract from Network Rail to build a 400 metres use eight tunnel boring machines. long railway viaduct in the south-east of London city as part of the Thameslink Programme. Work is scheduled to be completed In August, 2009, Crossrail Limited launched a USD24 billion in August 2012.

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Future developments to Line E of the Réseau Express Régional considered a technological breakthrough since it replaces the (RER) network and Line 14 of the Paris Métro, France traditional magnetic strip with an electronic chip.

Developers: Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP) In October 2009, France-based Compin Group has been selected by SNCF to supply interior fittings for the Project detail and status: The rapid transit system catering to refurbishment of 60 of its TGV SUD Est trainsets, with a further Paris and its suburbs comprises the Paris Métro (or option for supply fittings for an additional 47 trains. Métropolitain), RER and Transilien. Since the stations of the underground Métro are the most closely spaced in the world, The initial batch will be refurbished during 2011-15 at the there is not much scope for further expansion. This is why the Hellemmes and Romilly workshops of SNCF. Initial deliveries RER was introduced in 1969 to serve the city and its suburbs by are planned for April 2011. integrating the existing subway with a set of old regional railway lines. The RER is being expanded in order to manage congestion. MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA A master plan worth USD26.41 billion was launched in March 2009 to accelerate the existing RER and metro projects. Dubai Metro Project, UAE

The Eole project involves Line E of the RER network, on which Developer: Roads and Transport Authority-Dubai (RTA) various extensions have been proposed. The two eastward extensions will be from Chelles-Gournay to Esbly and Meaux, Project details and status: The RTA is currently implementing and from Tournan to Coulommiers. The westward extension will the 174 km long, four line Dubai metro project. be from Haussmann-St Lazare to Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche and The four lines are the red line covering 52.5 km, connecting Versailles Rive-Droite. Further, a new Line E station has been to the Jebel Ali border, the green line covering 22.5 km proposed at Rue de l’Évangile. These works are scheduled to be and extending from Dubai Airport Free Zone to Dubai Healthcare finished by 2014. City, the purple line covering 49 km and linking Dubai The Météor project involves extension of Line 14 as a part of International Airport with Jebel Ali Airport, and the blue line the Métro network, to relieve RER . It is the only automated covering 50 km and connecting Dubai International Airport to line with driverless operations and in the Al Maktoum International Airport. Métro network. In the first phase, the red and the green lines will be Currently, there are plans to remove the congestion on constructed with a total of 47 stations. Originally the metro project branches of lines 7 and 13 respectively by integrating a branch was estimated to require an investment of USD4.22 billion but a of each line under Line 14. The 5.2 km extension to Line 14 major revision of the design and scope led to a massive escalation. requires an investment of USD1.35 billion. The city of Paris is It is now estimated to require an investment of USD7.6 billion. willing to contribute up to 20 per cent of the cost, while the major In February 2009, the RTA entered in to a contract with the portion of funding has been committed by STIF (Regional British Office of Rail Regulation for providing safety standards. Transport Authority for Paris). For the red and green lines, USA-based Llewelyn Davies has Work on the Line 14 extension to reduce congestion on Line been selected as the lead architect and Dubai Rapid Link has 13 is expected to start in 2013 and be completed by 2017. The been selected as the contractor. Parsons Brinckerhoff is the project project to relocate branches of Lines 7 and 13 to Line 14 has still consultant for the purple line. not been approved. In September 2009, a section of the Dubai metro along the The Paris Metro is also undergoing a major upgrade red line, covering 10 stations, became operational. The remaining programme starting with Line 1, the oldest and busiest. Most of stations on the red line would be in use by the end of February the equipment on Line 1 will be refurbished to enable automated 2010. The line is expected to be completely operational by 2012. operations and platform doors are under construction on Line The red line is set to be extended by 15.5 km to the border with 13. The ‘Hurricane System’ which provides continuous control Abu Dhabi and will add six stations and a multi-storey car park. of speed has been put into action on Line 13 and will be effective In October 2009, RTA announced that green line is expected from 2011. The overall upgrade of Line 13 is expected to be to start operations in the middle of next year. completed by 2015. Development on the purple Line had been postponed due to In August 2009, the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer the slowdown in property development in those areas. RTA also Français (SNCF) announced plans to create a Grand Paris rail announced that it will launch a new personalised metro card for network connecting Paris, Le Bourget, La Defense and Roissy commuters in the next few weeks. The Nol Blue Card will be Airport. registered with the RTA and carry a person’s photograph and The project will be implemented at an investment of USD426 personal details. million. High speed TGV trains will be introduced on the Also in October 2009, UK-based Nomad Digital and UAE- network. SNCF has decided to invite tenders for buying 35 new- based integrated telecom service provider, du, launched wi-fi generation TGV trains. broadband services on Dubai metro trains and stations in In September 2009, France-based Gemalto NV (GTO.FR) conjunction with RTA. Jotun Paints announced that it has secured a contract from RATP to manage the on-line purchase of supplied over 3 million litres of paint for red line. The company transport tickets and enable online top up of Passe Navigo, which is still set to deliver its paints and coatings for the remaining red was introduced in 2001 in Paris and 23 other cities and is line and the entire green line.

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The FTA TIGGER program is an American Recovery and NORTH AMERICA Reinvestment Act of 2009 initiative to drive the implementation of advanced energy and emission efficient mass transit solutions. GE and EMD win locomotives order from Canadian Railway Canadian National Railway (CNR) has placed an order for 70 AT&T offers wireless coverage on SEPTA Market-Frankford and new high-horsepower (hp) locomotives from GE Transportation Broad Street Subway and Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD). While GE will supply 35 ES44DC, 4,400 hp locomotives starting from the fourth quarter AT&T has completed its wireless network for providing street- of 2010, EMD will provide 35 SD70M-2s, 4,350 hp locomotives to-platform coverage for its Broad Street Subway and Market- starting from January 2011. The GE and EMD locomotives will Frankford lines, operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania be equipped with distributed power (DP) capability, which Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in Philadelphia region of enables remote control of a locomotive throughout a train from Pennsylvania, USA. It has recently added six new cell sites in the lead control locomotive. the tunnels as part of its efforts to extend its mobile network. In all, 31 sites cover more than 24 miles of the The locomotive units are part of CNR’s multi-year SEPTA subway system. locomotive-renewal programme aimed at increasing fuel efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Aecom wins USD19 million contract from DART

Siemens wins light-rail contract from San Diego MTS The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) authority has awarded a USD19.3 million contract to technology provider, Aecom The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) has granted a Technology, for supplying project control, system integration and two-year USD205.2 million contract to Germany-based transport staff support services for the second phase of its light rail equipment provider Siemens for providing 57 new low-floor, expansion project. The project involves constructing the 26.5-mile light-rail vehicles. Procurement of the vehicles is part of the first Green line and a 32.19 km expansion of the Orange and Blue phase of a major rehabilitation project for San Diego MTS’ Blue lines. This contract takes the combined value of Aecom’s total and Orange lines. contracts with DART to USD58.1 million. The 57 vehicles will replace some of the 134 light-rail vehicles in operation (some of which are more than 20 years old). The IBM to modernise San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit new low-floor vehicles will be built entirely at Siemens’ solar- powered manufacturing plant in Sacramento. The S70 model is The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) has deployed 81 feet long (nine feet shorter than the trains that currently run IBM software to manage the product purchase, inventory- on the MTS Green Line through Mission Valley between Old tracking, and maintenance systems on trains, stations, equipment Town and Santee). and operations. BART has implemented the software as part of its multi-year Thales supplies communications solution to Canada Line modernisation project which includes updating and integrating existing equipment as well as adding new rail cars to the fleet. France-based rail technology solutions provider Thales has implemented its communications-based train control solution for The BART rail system connects San Francisco to cities in the the new rail line, the Canada Line, in Vancouver, British East Bay and suburbs in northern San Mateo County. Columbia. The Thales’ SelTrac system has enabled the 19.2 km Vancouver-Richmond rail line to run at 99 per cent availability. IBM to provide software for Washington Metro The Canada Line, which opened in August 2009, is the third line in TransLink’s SkyTrain network. It connects downtown The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Vancouver to the national airport via a fork in the line at is using IBM software to monitor its buses, trains, and related Bridgeport station and is expected to cater to nearly 100,000 equipment to assess the exact condition and location of all its passengers daily by 2010 and 142,000 by 2021. The line was assets. IBM is helping the authority to manage its 12,000 bus stops built by InTransitBC, a joint-venture company partly owned by and train stations, 170.59 km of track, 1,144 rail cars and 1,500 SNC Lavalin. buses from a central control center using on-screen displays.

Fisher Coachworks to provide hybrid buses in Michigan Railhead Vision Systems to deploy LDVR in Metrolink locomotives Mass Transportation Authority in Flint, Michigan, USA (MTA Flint) will procure two Fisher Coachworks GTB-40 all-electric, Southern California’s railroad system operator, Metrolink, plug-in hybrid mass transit buses to be deployed in 2010. The intends to install an inward and outward-facing video camera bus is an all-electric, zero emissions vehicle, expected to meet system, Locomotive Digital Video Recorder (LDVR) in its California ARB’s ZBus requirements. locomotives. The system, which will be provided by US company Railhead Vision Systems, involves deploying three cameras per MTA Flint has received USD2.2 million funding from the locomotive, one outward-facing and two inward-facing, to record Obama Administration’s USD100 million Federal Transit activity in front of the train as well as the control panels and Administration’s Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas & people inside the locomotive. The transport operator will install Energy Reduction (FTA TIGGER) program. the cameras in 52 locomotives.

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Granite Construction JV wins Long Island Rail Project first phase of Honolulu’s rail transit project. Kiewit Pacific will design and construct a 10.46 km section linking East Kapolei to New York Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) Capital Pearl Highlands. The construction work, estimated to cost Construction has awarded USD659 million contract to a Granite USD570 million, is expected to be completed within three years. Construction-led joint venture (JV) to build a tunnel link from Queens to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. The JV’s other The project’s second phase, estimated to cost USD350 million, members include Traylor Brothers and Frontier-Kemper involves constructing a 6.28 km section from Pearl City to Aloha Constructors with Granite holding a 42.5 per cent stake in the Stadium. The transit authorities are expected to launch a tender deal. The East Side Access project will complete the Long Island for the project in mid-November 2009. Overall, the nearly USD5 Rail Road service, which will provide a direct route between Long billion Honolulu rail transit project involves building a 32.19 Island and eastern Queens to Manhattan’s Eastside. The work km elevated rail line to link West Oahu with downtown includes excavation and precast concrete lining of four bored Honolulu and the Ala Moana Centre. The system is likely to be tunnels below active rail storage. Construction will begin partially and fully operational by 2012 and 2019, respectively. immediately and the project is slated for completion in 42 months. MTA Capital Construction was founded in 2003 to manage major capital projects for the MTA. LATIN AMERICA

Avalon Rail receives passenger car renewal contract from VIA Helios wins electric train consultancy contract from Rail Canada ProInversión

VIA Rail Canada has awarded a CAD19.5 million contract to Peru-based private investment promotion agency ProInversión Avalon Rail for reconfiguring 12 of its passenger cars (eight has granted a contract to Peru-based consultancy firm Helios to Chateau sleeping cars and four Park sleeper-dome-lounge cars) help in the concession process for Lima’s electric train system used on its western transcontinental train, the Canadian. The project. Helios will also help ProInversión find investors for the project is being funded by the Government of Canada’s Economic electric train project. On September 2, 2009, ProInversión Action Plan, which has allocated CAD407 million for passenger launched an international tender for the operation and mainte- rail improvements. The new passenger cars are slated to be nance of Lima’s electric train mass-transport system. delivered in 2011. The successful bidder will obtain finances for the project, Avalon Rail, which specialises in re-manufacturing passenger design and purchase the rolling stock, and operate and maintain rolling stock, won the contract through a competitive bidding the line for a 30-year period. The tender is likely to be awarded process. The company will utilise the expertise of various in early November 2009 and construction is estimated to take a Canadian engineering, design and supply firms for a portion of maximum of 18 months. the project. Meanwhile, Canada’s national passenger rail service has chalked out spending worth CAD40 million over the next The Andean Development Corporation (CAF) is lending the two years for new railway stations around Montreal, Toronto, Peruvian state USD300 million to help finance construction of Ottawa and Windsor, as well as significant upgrades to existing the train link connecting the Atocongo bridge to Las Artes and stations in Vancouver and Saskatoon. This is in addition to some from Las Artes to Hospital 2 de Mayo. The approximate budget multimillion-dollar projects already under way to rebuild for civil construction is USD431 million. platforms, repair roofs or upgrade heating systems in locations such as Vancouver, Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Halifax. Invensys and Infoglobal receive contract to upgrade Sao Paulo [1 Canadian Dollar (CAD) = 0.9396 USD] metro lines Brazil metro operator, Companhia Paulista de Trens Washington Metro to try new anti-crash system by ARINC Metropolitanos (CPTM), has granted a EUR280 million contract to a consortium consisting of UK-based railway control and com- The Washington transit agency will conduct trial of new anti- munications systems provider Invensys Rail, Brazil-based engi- crash software on its network. The system has been developed neering company Montagens e Projetos Especiais (MPE), and by the US firm ARINC with the agency’s assistance. The new Spanish telecom specialist Infoglobal. software will, in real time, replay the status of all its circuits and connections within the rail system and serve as a backup for the Invensys Rail, which has a 60 per cent stake in the existing crash-prevention system. In case of a malfunction, a vi- consortium, will install its Sirius Communication Based Train sual and audio alarm will be triggered on the controllers’ screens Control (CBTC) system to upgrade signalling and automatic at the Washington Metro operations centre. The new system was train control on lines 8, 10 and 11 of Sao Paulo’s metro system. developed after the US National Transportation Safety Board It will also implement associated rolling stock, WESTRACE recommended that the transit agency replace its existing crash- interlockings, point machines and light emitting diode signals. prevention system. The new system will operate simultaneously with the existing legacy signalling system until the project is complete. Kiewit Pacific receives construction contract for Honolulu’s rail CPTM owns and operates the three metro lines in Sao Paulo: transit project Line 8 which is 35 km with 20 stations; Line 10 which is 37 km with 15 stations; and Line 11 which is 37 km and has 12 stations. The Hawaii government has granted a USD482.9 million con- It also operates 136 trains and maintenance vehicles. tract to construction and engineering firm, Kiewit Pacific, for the (1 Euro [EUR[ = 1.471 USD)

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Pöyry-Cal y Mayor-Geo Consult consortium win metro consultancy contract ASIA PACIFIC

The Industrial Development Bank (IDB) and Andean Hyundai Rotem starts rolling out driverless metro cars Development Corporation (CAF) have awarded a USD2 million consultancy contract to a consortium consisting of engineering Hyundai Rotem has released its first driverless light metro car and consulting firms, Swiss-based Pöyry, Mexico-based Cal y from its Changwon plant in South Korea. The company will soon Mayor and Panama-based Geo Consult, for the Panama City deliver 50 driverless metro cars, comprising two car sets, as well subway. The consortium will have nine months to present a as electrical and mechanical equipment for the Busan-Gimhae conceptual design, frame draft bidding rules for design and line according to a contract awarded by the Busan Gimhae Line construction of the line, provide rolling stock, and supply and Corporation in November 2006. install the signalling material and communications systems. In addition, Hyundai Rotem will also supply driverless metro Other shortlisted consortia were URS Holdings and Parsons- cars to mass rapid transit lines in Incheon and Seoul. The Brinkerhoff (both US-based), Sener-Transports Metropolitans company has earlier provided driverless metro cars for the de (TMB) and Metro de Madrid (both Spain-based), Vancouver metro region’s Canada Line, which had launched and French-based Coteba. services in August 2009. The Busan-Gimhae Light-Rail Transit is an automated guideway transit system under construction between the cities of Busan and Gimhae in South Korea. The line Volvo wins bus orders from Grupo Ruas and Transmilenio has a planned length of 23.92 km with 18 stations, and is scheduled to open in April 2011. Brazil-based bus operator, Grupo Ruas, has ordered 100 bi- articulated Volvo B9SALF buses from Volvo Buses. Bus rapid transit system operator, Transmilenio in Bogota, Columbia, has KBR-Arup joint venture receives AUD4.3 billion contract also placed an order for 84 articulated buses from Volvo. This year, Volvo has received orders for 200 buses from Transmilenio. The Australian government has awarded a AUD4.3 billion contract to a joint venture between US-based engineering and Many cities in South America have opted for buses with high construction company, Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), and floors and bus stops on platforms that are the same height as London-based engineering-consulting organisation, Arup, to the bus floor. Other cities such as Santiago in Chile and Sao finalise planning for the Regional Rail Link project. Paulo have opted for street-level bus stops and low-floor buses. The Volvo B9SALF’s engine is located on the left side of the bus The project involves laying a 50 km rail network to connect between the first two axles. This enables the entire right side to West Werribee and Southern Cross. The project is jointly funded be lowered to street level, which facilitates boarding and by the federal government (which has contributed AUD3.2 disembarking from all doors in the bus. Earlier in 2009, Volvo billion) and the provincial government (which has put in had received orders for 27 and 62 articulated buses for the BRT AUD1.1 billion). Full-scale construction work on the project is system in Leon, Mexico, and for the first corridor of the new expected to begin in 2010; however, initial works were initiated BRT system respectively. in August 2009 at platforms 15 and 16 of Southern Cross Station. (1 Australian Dollar [AUD] = 0.9107 USD) Odebrecht Peru to place bid for USD400 million electric train project tender Swaraj Mazda bags bus contract from DMRC

Brazil construction firm subsidiary, Odebrecht Perú, is likely to India’s Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has granted an bid for a USD400 million tender for carrying out the civil and INR600 million contract to Swaraj Mazda for supplying 300 air- electromechanical works on the mass transport electric train conditioned (AC) buses. The buses will be used to provide feeder project in Lima and Callao. For bidding, Odebrecht will partner services for customers in over 160 stations on its metro network. with Peru based construction company Graña y Montero, which The move is aimed at providing a comfortable and smooth ride will have a 33 per cent stake in the consortium. Odebrecht is also to spectators on their way to the 11 Commonwealth Games looking for a partner to provide the electromechanical equip- venues in Delhi. Swaraj will deliver the first set of 75 buses by ment for the train and is evaluating options from German, Cana- January 2010 and the remaining by March 2010. Swaraj will also dian and Chinese firms. provide backend support like on-road maintenance and periodic servicing for the buses. Each CNG-enabled bus is estimated to The contract, for which around 11 firms have been cost USD39,114 and will have a semi-low floor design with a shortlisted, is expected to be awarded on October 29, 2009. The 26-person seating capacity. The buses will also have global winner will have 16 months to complete the project, in addition positioning systems, facilities for a public address system and to two months for testing. The expansion of the electric train ticket-vending machines. will be carried out as a public works project whose operation and maintenance will then be handed over in concession to a (1 Indian Rupee [INR] = 0.0212USD) private firm. Meanwhile, Peru’s Transport and Communications Ministry is looking to grant a contract for carrying out the civil Mercedes-Benz plans to launch city-buses and luxury coaches and electromechanical works for the stretch from the Atocongo bridge to Las Artes and from Las Artes to Hospital 2 de Mayo. Mercedes-Benz India is planning to introduce city-buses and Private investment promotion agency ProInversión is expected three-axle luxury coaches in the next six to 12 months to increase to launch a tender later this year to select a concessionaire for its bus sales. City buses, characterised by low or semi-low floor the rolling stock and operation of the system. AC and non-AC buses, are currently witnessing an increase in

46 Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 Company News demand due to the INR350 billion from the central government Tadiran Telecom receives communications system order from for Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission SCR (JNNURM) scheme. Urban transport agencies such as Delhi Metro Rail Corporation are planning to buy such buses. The India rail operator South Central Railway (SCR) has granted a state transport agency of Haryana recently launched a tender contract to Israel-based Tadiran Telecom for deploying the for procuring 100 such buses and five companies are Softswitch communication system over its 200 km long network. participating in the bidding process. Mercedes-Benz entered the The project is Tadiran Telecom’s first ever installation of the Indian bus segment in 2008. Softswitch solution in India. The solution consists of a group of three internet-based Sea Softswitch servers which are located in Launched by the central government, the JNNURM is a city three geographically dispersed sites to cover for redundancy and modernisation scheme with a total investment of over USD20 fault tolerance for the other servers. billion during a 5-6 year period. Alcan Extruded Products to supply EcoRange technology for SBS Bombardier wins high speed train contract from Chinese Transit buses Ministry of Railways France-based Alcan Extruded Products, a business unit of Rio CSR Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation, a joint venture Tinto, will supply aluminum for Singapore-based public between Canadian train manufacturer Bombardier and China transport company, SBS Transit’s 600 city buses. The Scania buses South Locomotive and Rolling Stock (CSR) Sifang Locomotive feature the Alcan EcoRange body structure system and low and Rolling Stock, has won half of a USD4 billion contract to carbon dioxide emissions. The buses’ bodywork is built by supply 80 Zefiro 380 trains with speeds ranging up to 380 km/hr Malaysia-based Gemilang Coachworks, a long-time partner of to China’s Ministry of Railways. The contract involves providing Alcan Extruded Products. Production and delivery of the buses 20 eight-carriage trains and 60 sixteen-carriage trains to be will take place by May 2010. delivered between 2012 and 2014. The Zefiro 380 trainsets will incorporate Bombardier’s ECO4 CSR Nanjing Puzhen wins contract for Hangzhou Metro energy saving technologies and will be manufactured at Bombardier Sifang Qingdao Transportation’s production facilities Singapore’s Midas Holdings’ joint venture company, CSR Nanjing in Qingdao, China. The engineering will take place in Qingdao Puzhen, has won a CNY1.8 billion contract from the Hangzhou and at Bombardier centers in Europe with project management Metro system. The project is currently under construction in and components provided from Europe and China. China. The 48 six-car trains will be used on the metro system’s first line. Each trainset will have a capacity of 2,036 passengers. Delivery is expected to start in May 2011 and be completed by Bombardier looks to cash in on metro coach demand in India August 2013. The German rail equipment arm of Bombardier Transportation Construction work on the Hangzhou Metro, a 278 km expects the annual demand for metro rail coaches in India to network with eight lines, started in March 2007. Line 1 will reach 1,000 units in the next two years. It expects the Indian connect the city’s central districts with the suburbs of Xiaoshan, market for new city-metro systems and railway equipment, Linping and Xiasha. The 48 km line will run underground for excluding locomotives, to be worth USD3.5 billion in five years, 41 km and will have 30 stations. Work on Line 1 is being driven by the construction plans of provincial governments in undertaken by a public private joint venture between Hangzhou India. Bombardier has invested EUR33 million in a factory in Metro Group and MTR, which will also handle operations. Gujarat with a capacity of 32 metro coaches a month. (1 Chinese Yuan [CNY]) = 0.1464 USD) (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.5024 USD) Nanche Sifang Locomotive receives bullet train order from Ashok Leyland to deliver ultra low entry buses in Delhi Chinese railway ministry

Ashok Leyland will soon start rolling out its ultra low entry buses China’s Ministry of Railways has awarded a contract worth for the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) from its new bus body CNY45 billion to procure 140 bullet trains from a China-based construction facility in Alwar, Rajasthan. DTC had ordered 875 train maker affiliated with Japanese firm Kawasaki Heavy In- buses worth INR11.9 billion in addition to a 12-year maintenance dustries. The trains, with a capacity to run at a maximum speed contract. The hi-tech buses, both AC and non-AC, are equipped of 350 km/hr, will be supplied by Nanche Sifang Locomotive, with automatic transmission and other modern amenities, and which has a technology licensing agreement with Kawasaki cost between INR4.9 million and INR5.93 million. Ashok Leyland Heavy Industries. will provide 50 buses as part of its first shipment. The delivery is scheduled to be completed by February 2010. The high speed trains will be manufactured using Kawasaki heavy technology which is already in use on the Hayate trains The Alwar bus plant will also produce 200 ultra low entry on the Tohoku Line in Japan. The new trains are buses ordered by the state transport undertakings of Rajasthan, expected to run on the Beijing-Shanghai and Beijing-Guangzhou Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh under the Jawaharlal Nehru rail lines beginning from the first half of 2010. National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The company will deliver 5,000 buses to various state and local transport bodies in A similar high-speed train service was started between the current fiscal. Beijing and during 2008. China is also building up similar lines in other parts of the country. (1 Indian Rupee [INR] = 0.0215 USD)

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Meanwhile, London-based design group Priestmangoode has Post-modernisation, the trams are to be delivered to the tram been appointed to work with China’s largest rolling stock depot operated by the department. company, Sifang, for designing trains to run on China’s new high (1 Polish Zloty [PLN] = 0.3571USD) speed rail network. The contract to develop concepts for the new stock was signed with Priestmangoode in early 2009. The Railway Ministry plans to reveal the designs by the end of 2009 and Pesa Bydgoszcz secures contract to supply low-floor trams to officially launch the trains by October 2010. Szeged

(1 Chinese Yuan [CNY] = 0.1464 USD) Poland-based rolling stock manufacturer Pesa Bydgoszcz SA has secured a contract to supply nine low-floor trams to Szeged city Alstom signs two agreements for signalling and trams in in Hungary. The firm’s bid was valued at EUR16 million, which Kazakhstan beat the rival bid of EUR20.6 million placed by Czech Republic- based . The first trams will be supplied in Novem- Alstom has signed two cooperation agreements covering pro- ber 2011, and the remaining by July 2012. duction of turnout motors and supply of a tram system for Astana, (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4971 USD) Kazakhstan’s capital city. These two agreements were signed in the framework of a Franco-Kazakh business forum. Telent secures bus information system contract in London First, in the area of signalling, the agreement Alstom entered into with the Chairman of Kazakh national railway operator UK-based Telent, a technology services company, has been (KTZ) provides for the set-up of an awarded a 12-year contract by Transport for London to develop industrial cooperation for the supply of turnout motors. core software and provide web and mobile content for upgrad- ing London’s bus passenger information system. The upgrade This agreement should lead to the creation of a joint venture project involves installation of 2,500 new electronic signs across for the local production of this equipment. The parties will jointly the city. Software solutions developed under the contract will define the details for transfer of the production and assembly of allow passengers to use their mobile phones and internet con- these turnout motors to Kazakhstan. nections to locate bus schedules. The contract will be imple- To meet the needs of the region, Alstom offers a product mented in two phases. Under the first phase, Telent will de- adapted to local operating conditions – able to operate in velop the software; post-rollout of the technology in 2011, it will temperatures as low as -40°C : two prototypes have been already maintain the core system for the duration of the contract. installed in the Kazakh rail network for a testing phase during 12 months. This turnout motor features Alstom’s latest Thales partners with BelAir to provide wi-fi for Bergen Light Rail technological advancements: reduced maintenance costs, a long operating life and a remote diagnostic system. France-based technology services company Thales has partnered with Canada-based BelAir Networks to provide wi-fi facilities Alstom also signed a memorandum of cooperation with the for the Bergen Light Rail Project in Norway. The wi-fi network Mayor of Astana for the creation of a tramway for the Kazakh installed comprises 40 BelAir100 nodes along a 12-km track capital. This project is part of the development plan the Kazakh length and 24 BelAir20M mobile access points installed on 12 state has launched for the new capital. The agreement provides trams. Thales is also responsible for rail signalling, telecommu- for the creation of a project feasibility study covering public works nications, passenger information, traffic control, and supervision and electromechanical aspects (supply of rolling stock, laying of systems for the project. The Bergen Light Rail project involves track, installation of catenaries and electrification of the line constructing a light rail system in the Norwegian city. The first including supply of all electric and mechanical systems and stage of the project involves building a 9.8-km stretch between subsystems) for which Alstom will provide expertise and long- the city centre and , estimated to be operational by 2010. term maintenance. Alstom’s Citadis tram will be adapted to local climate constraints and equipped to operate in extreme Construction works will continue from Nesttun to Lagunen temperatures. Storsenter in August 2010. Further plans for the project involve implementing three lines, stretching to Bergen Airport, Flesland, Åsane, and . EUROPE Arriva wins contracts from Darlington Borough Council and Modertrans wins contract for tram network modernisation London Bus Services Darlington Borough Council has granted UK-based bus service The department for public transport in Gdañsk, Poland, Zakład operator, Arriva North East, a ‘multiple awardees’ contract for Komunikacji Miejskiej w Gdañsku Limited, has awarded a ser- providing bus services in Darlington, County Durham, for an vice contract to Poland-based transport equipment manufacturer unspecified amount (rumored to be GBP1.5 million). The contract Modertrans Poznan for repair and maintenance of rolling stock will be for 5 years with the option for extension to a maximum of used in the town’s tram network. five, 12 month periods. Meanwhile, Arriva London North earlier The PLZ4.77 million contract involves upgrade of 44 N8C- won a GBP4.8 million contract from London Bus Services to type trains including replacement of windows and wall linings, provide public road transport services. The contract is for 5 years refurbishment of interiors and changing the location of electrical with the option of a 2 year extension. equipment for convenient travel. (1 British Pound [GBP] = 1.6370 USD)

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CAF receives EUR139 million contract from Istanbul transport Bombardier unveils Itino diesel railcar authorities Bombardier Transportation has introduced its first Itino diesel The Istanbul transport authorities have granted a EUR139 railcar, which runs on low-emission diesel technology million contract to Spain-based Construcciones y Auxiliar de (CLEANTM). It has already conducted a series of trial runs with Ferrocarriles (CAF) for supplying 30 metro units, comprising four the prototype train at Jönköping station in Sweden. The first set cars, with each unit measuring 90 metres in length. of CLEANTM trainsets is expected to be launched in both Sweden and Germany later this year. The CLEANTM Diesel Power Pack is The units will be deployed on the new Istanbul, Kadiko and the first low-emission 500 kW traction package, which will be Kartal lines. Each unit is fitted with four doors on each side of able to meet the European Union’s Stage IIIB exhaust emission the cars, 1500 Vdc catenary pantograph energy pick-up, and regulations, due to be introduced in 2012. passenger information, video-entertainment, and closed-circuit television surveillance system. It has a maximum capacity of 1,300 The CLEANTM powerpack has demonstrated a reduction in passengers. exhaust emissions of up to 83 per cent compared to average engines. Bombardier is currently assembling four Itino trainsets (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4787 USD) with CLEANTM diesel technology for the Fahma-Fahrzeug management in Germany, which will begin operating in the GAZ Group delivers 16 LiAZ buses to Yakutsk municipal Odenwald region near -am-Main later this October. transportation company Thirteen additional trainsets have been ordered by various operators in Sweden, with the first set due to be delivered to Russia-based automotive manufacturing company, Oleg Västtrafik in December 2009. Deripaska’s GAZ Group, has delivered 16 LiAZ buses to the Yakutsk municipal transportation company. Bombardier delivers first set of trains for the Metropolitan Line The contract value is USD2.7 million. The CNG buses will be of London Underground manufactured at the group’s Likinsky bus plant and will operate services at Yakutsk city routes. Canada-based rail equipment manufacturer, Bombardier Trans- portations, has delivered the first of 58 eight-car trains for the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground. The pre-series Bombardier receives EUR258 million contract from Trenitalia train is expected to launch passenger services in 2010. The full Italy based train operator, Trenitalia, has granted a EUR258 delivery is expected to be completed by 2011. Meanwhile, the million contract to Canada-based transport equipment London Underground has introduced air conditioned train ser- manufacturer, Bombardier Transportation for 100 Class E464 vices. One new train, which will serve the Metropolitan line from electric locomotives. The contract has an optional clause for the the summer of 2010, has been replaced with air conditioning. delivery of 50 additional locomotives. The locomotives are slated This is the first step in the replacement of the line’s fleet, with 58 to be delivered in 2010-12. new trains being brought into service by 2011. Trenitalia had earlier placed orders for a total of 638 locomotives, of which 480 are already in service. The latest Nexans to deliver railway cables for Istanbul rail line contract is the first to be placed under Trenitalia’s recently- France-based transport equipment provider Alstom has granted announced EUR2 billion investment program in regional a EUR3.3 million contract to France-based cable company, Nexans passenger services. for manufacture and supply of 1,350 km specialised railway sig- The 3 kV DC units will be assembled at Bombardier’s former naling cables. The cables (including ZPAU, digicode and TIBB plant at Vado Ligure, with the bodyshells coming from as well as low-voltage power cables K25) will be installed on Bombardier’s Wroclaw plant in Poland and the Mitrac Istanbul’s Marmaray trans-Bosphorus rail line in 2010-11. The 76.3 propulsion equipment from Trapaga in Spain. The trainsets will km rail line connects Halkali on the European bank of the have a maximum speed of 257.5 km/hr. Bosphorus to the suburb of Gebze to Istanbul’s urban transport network and is scheduled to start operating services in 2013. A (1 Euro[EUR] = 1.4787 USD) consortium led by Alstom is handling the project coordination, general engineering, track installation and electrification and Bombardier wins EUR35 million order from Deutsche Bahn signaling of the rail line project.

Germany-based rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) has placed a (1 Euro[EUR] = 1.4787 USD) EUR35 million order for up to 8 electric multiple-units (EMUs). The order covers four three-car and five- London Bus Services awards GBP4.7 million contract to Arriva car Class 442 EMUs which will be operated by DB Regio Südost London North on the Dresden–Leipzig route from 2011. London Bus Services has granted Arriva London North a GBP4.7 In September 2009, DB placed a EUR90 million order for six million contract for providing bus services on Route 76 for 5 years. three-car and 16 four-car Talent 2 units to be used on the The contract may be extended for 2 years depending on perfor- Mittelhessen-Express services from December 2011. With this mance. Arriva London is a division of Arriva which operates bus order, DB’s total order with Bombardier comes to 128 Talent 2 services in London. Operations are split between two registered EMUs. companies, Arriva London North and Arriva London South. (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4912 USD) (1 British Pound [GBP] = 1.6332 USD)

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Thales UK to upgrade CIS for Southeastern Railways Siemens wins equipment supply contract from Helsinki City Transport UK rail operator, Southeastern Railways has granted a contract to technology provider, Thales UK, for upgrading and integrating Helsinki-based public transport operator, Helsinki City Trans- its Customer Information System (CIS). The CIS provides real time port, has granted a EUR56 million contract to Siemens for sup- audio and visual information to passengers at stations. plying technical equipment for the 14 km extension of its metro Thales UK will also upgrade the system for all southbound network. trains when they begin services and the new East London Line. Siemens will deliver the automatic control system, the Southeastern Railways operates services in Kent, Sussex and operations control centre, the signalling system, the onboard South East London and will operate the country’s first domestic communication, and the passenger information system for the high-speed service, which is expected to be launched in December seven-station extension. 2009. In 2008, the two had entered into a EUR100 million contract for renovating the existing metro line. The driverless metro Thales receives rail signalling contract from GYSEV system will begin operations from 2013 while the extension is expected to be operational in 2014. Regional railway operator, GYSEV, jointly owned by Hungary and Austria, has granted a HUF7.63 million contract to Vienna- (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4912 USD) based automation-technology company Thales Rail Signaling for supplying security equipment on the Hungary Railways’ track. Siemens and Bombardier win EUR191 million order from Wiener Specifically, the contract involves supplying the security solutions for a 56 km section of the -- Austrian public transit network operator, Wiener Linien, has Szentgotthárd line rail in western Hungary. ordered 20 Type V six-car metro trains worth EUR191 million from Siemens, Elin EBG Traction, and Bombardier. Siemens and The project is being funded under the HUF41.3 billion Elin EBG Traction will supply the bodyshells, interior fittings assistance programme by the European Union to Hungary to and electrical equipment in a deal valued at EUR153 million. renovate a 116 km section of the rail line. The arrangement will allow trains to travel at the maximum speed of 120 km/hr as The deal with Bombardier is worth EUR38 million and against the current speed of 80 km/hr. The government expects includes air-conditioning units and other electrical equipment. to complete the project by the end of 2011. The trains are due for delivery in 2012-17. This is the third order placed within a 1998 framework agreement for 60 trainsets with (1 Hungarian Forint [HUF] = 0.0053 USD) 25 and 15 trainsets ordered in 2002 and 2007, respectively. (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4912 USD) AmeyColas wins track renewal contract from Network Rail

UK rail operator Network Rail has granted a EUR250 million Volvo introduces alcolock system for buses contract to AmeyColas for operating and maintaining its track renewal systems. The five-year contract involves the renewal and Sweden-based bus manufacturer, Volvo Buses, has deployed a replacement of over 1,600 miles of track, which forms nearly 30 new alcolock system for buses, which locks a vehicle’s brakes if per cent of Network Rail’s total renewals workload. The contract the driver is under the influence of alcohol. The upper limit for begins from January 2010. alcohol concentration in the blood is 0.2. (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4912 USD) The bus will also not operate if the driver does not perform a breath test. Many bus operators have deployed the system to increase passenger safety. Grammer sets up wholly owned subsidiary Volvo Buses’ alcolock system comprises a handheld unit Germany-based vehicle seat manufacturer, Grammer, has set up connected to the dashboard display where information about a wholly owned subsidiary, Grammer Railway Interior, which the bus is shown and the driver can see the test results will be responsible for the group’s rail activities from January 1, immediately. The company held the first demonstration of its 2010. This will increase the degree of independence and flexibil- alcolock system for heavy vehicles in 2007. ity of decision making for the rail business unit. Alstom and Ansaldo win ERTMS contract from Trenitalia Alstom to electrify Granada tramway system Italy-based rail operator Trenitalia has granted a EUR25 million The Autonomous Community of Andalusia in Spain has granted contract to France-based Alstom and Italy-based Ansaldo to a EUR16.4 million contract to Alstom and Spain-based Inabensa maintain the European Railway Traffic Management System to electrify Granada’s tramway system. The tramway system is (ERTMS) for its 31 high-speed trains. The fleet is in use on the 15.9 km long and covers 26 stations. new - and Torino- high-speed rail lines. The project is expected to be completed by July 2011. Alstom’s Alstom’s share in the contract is EUR13 million and involves share of the contract is EUR9.8 million and involves installation the diagnostic, monitoring, assistance and on-site maintenance of 35 km of catenary and seven traction substations. of the equipment. (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4912 USD) (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4912 USD)

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Alstom receives trainset contract from SNCF Alstom looks to ramp up business in the Middle East

France National Railways, Société Nationale des Chemins de fer France-based engineering firm, Alstom is firming up plans to français, (SNCF) has granted a EUR7 billion contract to France- boost its business in the Middle East by negotiating for a five- based transport equipment manufacturer, Alstom for supplying year contract to maintain a USD809 million tram system in Dubai. up to 1,000 low-floor trainsets to operate regional services for This is in addition to being close to signing a high-speed rail the Association des Régions de France, a consortium of regional project deal in . Alstom is also looking to win a tender authorities. for a multi-billion dollar high speed rail linking Jeddah with Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. The orders are confirmed for 100 trains which, valued at EUR800 million, are due to be delivered from 2013. Further orders In June 2008, a consortium including Alstom won the for 35 sets are expected shortly and discussions have started for contract to build the first phase of Dubai’s tram system. The another 20. tram, to be finished by 2012, will link to the Emirate’s metro, which opened in September 2009. Of the first 135 trains, 25 are destined for Midi-Pyrénées, 22 for Alsace and 22 for Aquitaine. Basse-Normandie is taking 18, Picardie 17, Pays-de-la-Loire 15, Haute-Normandie eight and du implements wi-fi broadband services on Dubai metro trains Lorraine eight. Alstom will provide its TER trainsets, which are and stations designated Coradia Polyvalent. The base design comprises a dual-voltage EMU for 1’”5 kV DC and 25 kV 50 Hz operation. UAE-based integrated telecom service provider, du, has launched wi-fi broadband services on Dubai metro trains and stations in Meanwhile, in a recent development, Alstom has been conjunction with RTA. du has also solidified its 2G and 3G mo- eliminated from the final stage of bidding for the UK bile coverage at all Dubai metro stations and along the entire Department for Transport’s order for a new fleet of Thameslink Red Line. electric multiple units (EMUs). Alstom last supplied EMUs to UK operators during the first Voith Turbo to deliver cooling systems for Saudi Arabian trains round of orders following privatisation and had been seeking to re-enter this sector. Bombardier and Siemens are still in the Spanish transport equipment manufacturer, Construcciones y running for the Thameslink project. Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF), has granted a contract to Voith Turbo for supplying cooling systems for Saudi Arabian trains. (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4871 USD) CAF is presently working on a project involving construction of six-car diesel-electric trains for the Saudi Arabian rail network. Mantena wins train maintenance contract from Alstom The cooling systems are slated to be delivered by May 2010.

France-based transport equipment manufacturer, Alstom has The cooling systems will be a combination of a compactly granted a 7-year EUR22 million contract to Norway-based firm installed roof-mounted cooling system for the diesel engine and Mantena for maintaining the 49 Coradia Nordic trains that it is a roof-cooling tower for the inverter. This is required as trains building for Sweden’s Scania region public transport authority. in Saudi Arabia will run through the desert under extreme conditions. Mantena will provide the necessary spare parts for fleet maintenance as well as keep track of the replacement parts which In July 2008, CAF had signed a EUR104.9 million contract will be needed. It will also manage the spare parts storehouse to supply Saudi Railways Organisation with eight 200 km/hr and provide local technical support. Alstom will start delivering passenger trainsets fitted with diesel-electric drive systems. The the trains in November 2009. power cars of the trains will have two diesel engines, each rated at 1,800kW. (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4871 USD) (1 Euro [EUR] = 1.4872 USD)

MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA CCECC receives rail construction contract from government The Nigerian Ministry of Transport has awarded a USD875 mil- On Track Innovations wins smart card contract from DiGiCore lion contract to China Civil and Engineering Construction Cor- poration (CCECC) for reinstating the Abuja-Kaduna rail system. South Africa-based DigiCore has granted a contract to Israel- The railway is designated to have nine stations and 18 bridges. based On Track Innovations (OTI) for supplying smart-card read- This constitutes the first phase of the Nigerian Railway ers for a contactless fare system on South Africa’s rail system. Modernisation Project and is expected to be completed and op- OTI will integrate its C-track-based fare validators with OTI’s erational by the end of 2012. Saturn 6500 readers. The second phase of the project involves building the Lagos- The reloadable and EMV-compliant pre-paid cards will Ibadan railway system, for which the tender is likely to be allow passengers to use contactless transactions in accordance launched soon. The Nigerian Railway Modernisation Project with the rules of card associations and the South African was earlier estimated to cost USD8.3 billion, but the government National Department of Transport. is likely to review this. There are also many issues related to OTI will initially supply 4,000 readers for use on the inconsistencies in government policies. The Nigerian country’s rail and bus networks, with an option for more readers government aims to provide a seamless train network in the in the future. country according to its Vision 2020. 

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Consultancy and design for VRE extension Updating urban transportation master plan in Rio de Janeiro

Country: USA Country: Brazil Organisation: Virginia Railway Express (VRE) Organisation: Companhia Estadual De Engenharia De Description/Scope of Work: Requests for proposal (RfP) are Transportes E Logistica (CENTRAL) invited from qualified engineering consultancy firms for Description/Scope of Work: Expressions of interest are invited preparation of a National Environmental Policy Act draft via international competitive bidding for updating the urban document and preliminary engineering designs for an extension transport master plan for the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region. of the VRE service. The extension would entail construction of The objectives of the project include updating structural network 17.7 km of new track and improvement of existing track between information and geo-referenced database, re-evaluation of pdtu Norfolk Southern Corporation B Line in Manassas city to the zoning, field surveys, trip matrices, evaluation of service quality, Haymarket area of Prince William County, Virginia. The RfP has computational analysis model and multimodal transportation been available since October 21, 2009. International competitive model, environmental impact assessment, basic network bidding will be used. operation simulations, financial viability analysis, supply of Closing date: November 30, 2009 (10 am) software, personnel training, etc. The expressions of interest must Contact: 1500 King Street, Suite 202Alexandria, be submitted in Portuguese or English. The Rio De Janeiro Mass VA 22314-2730 Transit Project is being funded by the World Bank. Phone: +1 703 8385427 Closing date: November 11, 2009 Fax: +1 703 8385427 Contact: Coordenadoria Executiva de Licitacao - Email: [email protected] CELIC Av. Nossa Senhora de Copacabana 493 - 4o Andar, Website: http://www.vre.org/about/procurement.htm Sala 408 CEP 22.031-000 - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil Phone: +55 21 23339145 Preparing a transit oriented development plan for Portland Fax: +55 21 23339145 Email: [email protected] Country: USA Website: http://www.central.rj.gov.br/02_Bonde.htm Organisation: METRO Description/Scope of Work: Request for proposals are invited through international competitive bidding from consultants for ASIA PACIFIC preparing a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Strategic Plan for Portland. The Metro TOD implementation programme strategic plan are outlined in the tender document and the outline Maintenance of old bus fleet on RapidKL is expected to be refined by the bidders. Further, subtask Country: Malaysia deliverables can be added or redistributed between Metro and Organisation: Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd the winning consultant team to meet the project budget. Description/Scope of Work: Open tenders from bus chassis Closing date: November 12, 2009 (3 pm) manufacturers registered in Malaysia are invited for the Contact: 600 NE Grand Ave. Portland, manufacture, supply, delivery and maintenance of 400 units of OR 97232-2736 (503) 797-1700, US 12-metre long old diesel buses deployed in Kuala Lumpur city Phone: +1 503 797 1700 under RapidKL. The bus fleet services the Klang valley and Fax: +1 503 797 1797 Penang areas. Email: [email protected] Closing date: November 23, 2009 (12 pm) Website: www.oregonmetro.gov/rtp Contact: Jabatan Perolehan Pusat, Syarikat Prasarana Negara Berhad, B-20-1, Level 20, Consultation study for electrification of GO Transit services Menara UOA, Bangsar, No. 5, Country: Canada Jalan Bangsar Utama 1, 59000, Organisation: Metrolinx Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Description/Scope of Work: Request for proposals are invited Phone: +60 3 2299 1999, 603 2287 5959 from consultants for a consultation study on electrification of Fax: +60 3 2299 1919 the GO Transit rail services system. The study will evaluate the Email: [email protected] economic, social, environmental, operational, health and Website: www.prasarana.com.my technological costs and benefit factors for conventional and future diesel and electric technologies. Only sealed proposals will be Upkeep of air system infrastructure used at train stops accepted, before which a mandatory information meeting will Country: Australia be held at 10 am on October 30, 3009. Organisation: Rail Corporation (RailCorp) Closing date: November 19, 2009 (3 pm) Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are Contact: GO Transit, 20 Bay Street, Suite 600 Toronto, invited for selecting a service provider to investigate, catalogue , M5J 2W3, Canada and map the air system infrastructure in the North Sydney, Phone: +1 416 874 5900 Sydenham and Eastern Suburbs Railway areas. The areas are Fax: +1 416 874 5901 serviced by compressed air systems used to operate train stops Email: [email protected] that are a part of RailCorp’s signalling network. The service Website: www.metrolinx.com provider will be required to develop a strategic direction for the

52 Global Mass Transit Report | November 2009 Tenders & Contracts air system that will ensure efficient delivery of its function Phone: +886 2 2381 5226 Extn: 49030 without loss of availability, as well as undertake upgrading works Website: http://www.railway.gov.tw/en/index/index.aspx where required. Closing date: November 18, 2009 (10 am) Supply of shock absorbers Contact: Level 1, North Wing 477 Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales-2000, Country: Singapore Australia Organisation: Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (SMRT) Phone: +61 1300 132 136 Corporation Limited Email: [email protected] Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are Website: https://tenders.nsw.gov.au/railcorp/ invited for the supply and delivery of vertical and horizontal shock absorbers for use on SMRT trains. The tender document Design and construction of Seaford Rail Extension price is set at SGD26.75 per set Closing date: December 1, 2009 (10.30 am). Country: Australia Contact: Cheng Kian Tiong, Organisation: Department for Transport, Energy and Central Supplies Department, Bishan Depot, Infrastructure, Government of South Australia Admin Building (Level 2), Description/Scope of Work: Requests for proposals are invited 300 Bishan Road, Singapore 579828. for the design and construction of the Seaford Rail Extension Phone: +65 54 81380 from Noarlunga Centre to Seaford District Centre in Walkerville. Email: [email protected] The contract will be awarded through international competitive Website: www.smrt.com.sg/ bidding. Closing date: November 19, 2009 (2 pm) Contact: Contracting and Procurement, 3rd Floor, EUROPE Room 360, 33 Warwick Street, Walkerville, Australia Supply of railway rolling stock Phone: +61 8343 2022, 0401 124 854 Email: [email protected] Country: Austria Website: https://tenders.nsw.gov.au/railcorp/ Organisation: ÖBB Personenverkehr AG Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are Design validation of metro train cars invited for the supply of electric multiple units for rolling stock on the local and regional rail networks on the routes of DB Netz Country: India AG and ÖBB Infrastructure AG. The trains must have a maximum Organisation: Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRC) speed of 160 km per hour and individually identifiable features. Description/Scope of Work: Domestic competitive bids are The contract order includes engineering, testing and reports for invited for the design validation of bogie design metro cars. The the trains and documentation for approval and start-up in trains will be operated on 750 V DC 3rd rail electrified traction Germany and Austria. power supply system on standard gauge (1,435 metres). Closing date: November 16, 2009 (1 pm) Closing date: November 16, 2009 (3 pm) Contact: Herrn Ing. Johann Wernhart Contact: Chavan, BMRC, 3rd Floor, Wagramer Strasse 17-19 A-1220 BMTC Complex, K.H.Road, Vienna, Austria ShantiNagar, Phone: :+43 6646170248 Bangalore-560 027, India Fax: +43 19300025471 Phone: +91 80 2296 9300, +91 80 2296 9301, Email: [email protected] Fax: +91 80 2296 9222 Website: http://www.oebb.at Email: [email protected] Website: www.bmrc.co.in Invitation to tender for railway construction work

Renewal works for Xinzhu station Country: Poland Organisation: PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe Country: Taiwan Description/Scope of Work: Contract notices are invited to tender Organisation: Taiwan Railway Administration for construction work for railways through international Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are competitive bidding. The work involves site preparation, civil invited for planning transformation and technical works on the engineering, building construction, construction work for Xinzhu station, which is part of the Taiwan High Speed Rail. pipelines, communication and power lines for highways, roads, Tender documents, containing details of the project, can be airfields and railways, flatwork, building installation, building purchased at a payment of TWD150. completion, and hiring construction and civil engineering Closing date: December 29, 2009 (2 pm) machinery and equipment with operator. The bids for which Contact: Chang, Kuen-Chen, contract notices are invited will be opened on November 30, 2009. Engineering Labor Procurement Section, Closing date: November 30, 2009 Department Of Procurement And Storage, Contact: Katarzyna Pastenaci, Taiwan Railway Adminstration, No.3, PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A., Ul. Beiping W. Road., Jhongjheng District, Targowa 74, PL-03-734 Taipei City 100, Warszawa, Poland Taiwan (Republic of China) Phone: +48 2 24732482

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Fax: +48 2 24732404 The total value of the contracts is between NOK70 million and Email: [email protected] 80 million. The work is scheduled to begin in March-April 2010. Website: www.plk-sa.pl Expected time of construction is 13 months. Switches, driving machines and concrete ground beams will be provided by the Refurbishment of passenger railway coaches awarding authoritiy while the remaining raw materials must be procured by the contractor. Country: Poland Closing date: November 16, 2009 (12 pm). Organisation: “PKP Intercity” SA Contact: Erling Kittelsen kernveien, Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are 9Pb 2857, T0yen N-0608 Oslo, invited for the repair and refurbishment of 27 passenger coaches Norway for long-distance inter-city passenger railways. This includes Phone: +47 2208 4000 three lots, namely, the repair of two YB SPOT type coaches, eight Fax: +47 22084215 111-A SPOT inv type coaches and 17 111-A SPOT type of coaches. Email: [email protected] The contract is covered by the General Procurement Agreement Website: www.ktpas.no (GPA). The duration of the contract is six months from the date of the award. Tender deposits for the three lots has been set at Reconditioning of passenger coaches PLN5,200, PLN 20,800 and PLN 44,200 respectively. The performance guarantee is 3 per cent of the final contract value. Country: An electronic auction will be held. Tenders are to be submitted Organisation: S.N.T.F.C. CFR Calatori S.A in Polish. Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are Closing date: November 27, 2009 (10.30 am) invited for the provision of railway carriages to the state-owned Contact 1: Zbigniew dark, “PKP Intercity” SA, railway. The contract works must be completed within four years PKP Intercity SA Office of Tabor, of signing the contract. The estimated value of the contract is in ul. Ch opickiego 50, bud. 03, def. 01, PL-02-021 the range of RON4.95 million to RON1 billion. While the tender Warsaw, Poland document is available at no cost, the tender security has been set Contact 2:“PKP Intercity” SA, at RON5 million. Performance guarantee has been set at 5 per PKP Intercity SA Office of Tabor, cent of the total contract value. ul. Grójecka 17, 02-275 Closing date: November 30, 2009 Warsaw, Poland Contact: Mariana Nica, Phone: +40 213 19 24 28 38, Dinicu Golescu Boulevard, Fax: +40 213 19 24 28 Sector 1, 010867-, Email: [email protected] Romania Website: www.intercity.pl Phone: +40 213 19 24 28 Fax: +40 213 19 24 28 Supply of rails and accessories Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.cfrcalatori.ro/ Country: Belgium Organisation: Limited Operationo f urban transport network Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are invited for the supply of rails and accessories for the Belgian Country: France railway network. Organisation: Syndicat Mixte des Transports du Douaisis Closing date: November 23, 2009 Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are Contact: Christian DevalleRue Bara, invited to operate one or more lots of the urban transport network 110, Achats I-SG 612, in Douai. Applications may be made for one or more lots as section 81B-1070, Brussels, Belgium follows: Phone: +48 2 24732482 Lot No. 1: Line 7 (Raimbeaucourt – Douai) valued at EUR385,000 Fax: +48 2 24732404 per year excluding value added tax (VAT) Email: [email protected] Lot No. 2: Line 11 (Douai - sin Noble) valued at EUR470,000 per Website: www.infrabel.be year excluding VAT Lot No. 3: Line 12 (Pecquencourt – Guesnain) valued at Track construction works EUR350,000 per year excluding VAT The criteria of selection will be the most economic tender. The Country: Norway duration of service contract on each of the lots will be 36 months Organisation: Kollektivtransportproduksjon from the award of contract. There is an early benefit expected for Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are the operator on each of the lots from January 4, 2010. invited for track construction works for upgrading of the Kolsas The overall delay of payment may not exceed 40 days under the line in Akershus County. The work includes: provisions of Article 98 of the Public Procurement Code. • Track work for underground trains on the Lysakerelva/ Closing date: November 16, 2009 Lilleaker-Bekkestua section and/or Bekkestua-Gj0nnes section Contact: President, Syndicat Mixte des Transports du Douaisis, (total length of 7.06 km with 18 switches). Department of Contracts (service procurement), • Contact line system for tram on the Lilleaker-Bekkestua 395 Boulevard Pasteur, section covering a total length of 5.6 km F-59287 Guesnain, France • rail system for underground trains covering a track Phone: +33 3 27991999 length of 6 km.

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Email: [email protected] Operation of bus service Website: https://marches.rvvn.org/ Country: Austria Supply of contactless readers and framework agreement Organisation: Wiener Linien GmbH & Co KG Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are Country: France invited in German for the operation of the bus line 16A in Vienna Organisation: Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP) 10, 12 and 23 districts between Hetzendorf S and Richard-Strauss- Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are Straße under service contract. The passenger buses will be invited for the supply of contactless readers and conclusion of operated on an officially licensed route. framework agreement with several operators for deploying the Combined bids must be made for all the lots as a division of readers at RER and Metro stations. The framework agreement lots is not permitted. Additional selection criteria are available will be valid up to a period of 84 months. The contract is available on the website. The bidding legal entities are required to indicate in lots including a confirmed bracket and two conditional slices. the names and professional qualifications of their staff who will The confirmed bracket includes the study of the integration be responsible for the execution of the service. The lowest price of the contactless reader, realisation of one prototype contactless bid will be awarded the contract. The stipulated duration of the reader, the provision of a pilot series of 50 contactless readers tender is 3 months from the date of award of the contract. and providing 350 contactless readers. The first conditional Closing date: December 15, 2009 (10 am) branch involves the supply of a minimum of 100 additional Contact: Harald Binder, contactless readers and a maximum of 200 additional contactless Wiener Linien GmbH & Co KG, readers. Erdbergstraße 202, The second conditional branch also involves the provision of A-1031 Vienna, Austria minimum 100 and maximum 200 contactless readers. The Phone: +43 17 909 49210 additional contracts may be concluded without competition. The Fax: +43 17 909 49109 contract will be awarded to the most economically advantageous Email: [email protected] tender in terms of the criteria stated in the tender invitation. Website: http://wienerlinien.vemap.com The contactless readers are intended to equip the stations and trains with devices providing electronic reading of data in Installation and maintenance of bus real time information the badges of officers of the RATP (Calypso products). The system contactless readers should meet standards ISO 14443 Type B and B for non-contact rail standards NF EN 50-155 and IEC 61373. Country: United Kingdom Closing date: November 30, 2009 (12 pm) Organisation: Slough Borough Council Contact: Philippe Nicora, RATP, Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are Department of Engineering Support Group, invited for the provision, installation and maintenance of a bus Central IV, Suite 708, LAKE C240 1, real time information system for Slough, , England. The avenue Montaigne, work will be led by Slough Borough Council on behalf of all F-93192 Noisy Le Grand Cedex, France stakeholders. It involves the installation and maintenance of Phone: +33 158786063 equipment on vehicles, at control centres, remote monitoring Fax: +33 158786213 facilities, interfaces with signal controllers for bus priority Email: [email protected] provision and real-time information displays at stops/stations. Website: www.ratp.fr The system is expected to be capable of providing the public with reliable transport information and will also encompass Qualification system for repair and maintenance of rolling stock dynamic fleet management and bus priority at designated traf- fic junctions. The system supplied should use open interface Country: Italy standards to enable interaction with other systems in adjacent Organisation: Azienda Trasporti Milanesi SpA areas as well as be adaptable enough to allow future expansions Description/Scope of Work: Competitive bids have been invited to other routes. for participation in a qualification system to undertake a general The contract will be valid for a 5-year period where the first review of the metro and tram carriages operated by the awarding year will involve the initial purchase, the second year for purchase authority under a service contract. The tenders must meet the and maintenance, and the final three years for maintenance only. “specification for qualification” available on the company’s Further, there is an option for two additional one-year extensions website. The qualification system will expire three years from for maintenance works. The value of the contract is estimated at the date of award, and companies interested in participating in GBP1.6 million. Details of required guarantees will be provided tenders for repair and maintenance of rolling stock under the in the tender document. company are required to be qualified by participating in the Closing date: November 30, 2009 qualification system. Contact: Babar Malik, Closing date: November 17, 2009 (1 pm) Atkins Intelligent Transport Systems, Contact: Purchasing Department, Woodcote Grove, Azienda Trasporti Milanesi SpA, Ashley Road, Viale Stelvio, 2, I-20159 Milan, UK-Epsom KT18 5BW Italy Phone: +44 1372756577+40 213 19 24 28 Phone: +39 02 4803 8314 Fax: +44 1372756607 Fax: +39 02 688 7778 Email: [email protected] Website: www.atm-mi.it Website: www.atkinsglobal.com

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Framework agreements for Nexus’ asset renewal plan Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.rhk.fi Country: United Kingdom Organisation: Tyne and Wear PTE (t/a Nexus) Supply of construction machinery and equipment Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are invited for preparing framework agreements to facilitate the Asset Country: Renewal Plan of Nexus which operates public transport in Tyne Organisation: Slovenske Zeleznice D.O.O. and Wear. Full details of the structure of the frameworks and Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are associated procedure will be issued in the Memorandum of invited for the supply of construction machinery and equipment Information that will be sent to all economic operators that for Slovenian national railway. The tender is available in five lots, express interest in the procedure. details of which can be seen in the tender document available at The contract involves the detailed design, supply and no charge. The contract value is estimated at EUR230,000 and it installation of permanent way, design and supply of overhead is scheduled to be completed by March 15, 2010. line equipment system, the detailed design and installation of Closing date: December 14, 2009 equipment, structures, earthworks and civil works, Contact: Boris Cerle, Slovenske Zeleznice D.O.O. , renewal of at-grade stations, escalators, signalling and Kolodvorska Street, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia communications. Phone: +386 1 291 45 32 Renewal may include replacement of track, ballast, sub- Fax: +386 1 291 48 33 ballast, including switches and crossings, other remedial works, Email: [email protected] refurbishment of various structures, drainage systems and Website: http://www.slo-zeleznice.si/en/ earthworks across the Metro network, lighting, electrical, local communications and civil/architectural enhancement, etc. The asset renewal frameworks are expected to commence during MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA March-October 2010 and operate for a period of 3 years with a possible two year extension granted at Nexus’ discretion. Preliminary design of high capacity rail line Closing date: November 19, 2009 (12 pm) Contact: James Allen, Tyne and Wear PTE (t/a Nexus), Country: Kenya 33, St James’ Boulevard, Organisation: Kenya Railways Corporation UK-Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4AX Description/Scope of Work: Request for proposals are invited Phone: +44 191 203 3333 through international competitive bidding for the provision of Fax: +44 191 203 3180 transaction advisory and preliminary design services for the Email: [email protected] proposed high capacity standard gauge railway line between Website: www.nexus.org.uk Mombasa and Malaba with a branch line to Kisumu. A bidders’ conference will be held in Mombasa on November 19-20, 2009. Automating tracks and switches Closing date: January 30, 2010 (10 am) Contact: Kenya Railways Corporation , The Procurement and Country: Germany Logistics Manager, Kenya Railways Headquarters, Block D, Organisation: DB NETZ AG (of Deutsche Bahn AG) Ground Floor, Room D1, Nairobi, KENYA Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are Kenya Railways Corporation, Workshop Road, invited for railway construction works and flatworks with Off Halle Selassie Avenue, framework agreement for automating processes of rail tracks and Opposite Kenya Polytechnic University, switches on the Deutsche Bahn AG network during 2010 and P.O.Box 30121 – 00100, Nairobi, Kenya 2011. An optional extension up to 2012 is available. Phone: +254 020 2215211, 2215796, 072860358 Closing date: November 26, 2009 (10 am) Fax: +967 200200 Contact: Jacobs Kabisch, Sven, Lange-Strasse 30, Email: [email protected] Jochen, D-10243 Berlin, Germany Website: http://www.krc.co.ke Phone: +49 30297-18020/46 Fax: +49 30297-18009 Consultancy for railway network construction Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.deutschebahn.com/site/bahn/de/ Country: Yemen unternehmen/konzernprofil/geschaeftsfelder/ Organisation: Ministry of Transport dbnetze__fahrweg/db__netz__ag.html Description/Scope of Work: Prequalification bids are invited through international competitive bidding for providing Supply of equipment consultancy services to prepare the tender documents for constructing a railway network in the Republic of Yemen. A Country: Finland number of investment projects are to be designed under the Organisation: Ratahallintokeskus Description/Scope of Work: International competitive bids are consultancy. invited for railway signalling works and railway traffic control Closing date: December 12, 2009 equipment for the Helsinki railway network. Contact: Ministry of Transport, P.O. Box 2781, Sana’a, Yemen Closing date: December 11, 2009 (12 pm) Phone: +967 200200 Contact: Maria Torttila, Ratahallintokeskus, Fax: +967 200200 PL 185, FIN-00101 Helsinki, Finland Email: [email protected] Phone: +358 207515005 Website: http://www.yms.gov.ye

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