The City of Angers Chooses ALSTOM and the APS Wire-Free System for its First Tramway
21 September 2006 15:35
The French "Angers Loire Metropolitan Authority" announced, on 10 July, the choice of ALSTOM for the supply of 17 CITADISTM trams equipped with the innovative APS power supply system which eliminates overhead power wires.
The order includes a firm part for the design, a full scale tram model and the supply of the APS system. An optional part provides for the supply of the 17 trams. The first part is to be signed before end July. The second part is expected to be signed in June 2007 following the accreditation of the project ("Déclaration d'Utilité Publique"). The two parts of the order represent a total of 45M €.
Angers is the second city in the world, following Bordeaux, to opt for APS. On 14 June this year, at the Public Transport congress in Paris, ALSTOM was awarded the Innovation Trophy in the Energy/Environment section for this technology. The "wireless" APS allows tramways to blend harmoniously into the urban environment and will thus preserve the heritage of Angers and Avrillé city-centres.
The tramway will be put into service in 2009, linking Avrillé to the Roseraie district via the city centre. The line will stretch over 12 km with 25 stops, serving 35,000 passengers per day.
The trams will be designed and assembled in ALSTOM's La Rochelle factory - the company's Centre of Excellence for trams. Four other ALSTOM sites in France will supply sub-systems: Tarbes the traction drives, Ornans the traction motors, Le Creusot the bogies, and Villeurbanne the tram electronics.
Angers is the world's 24th city to have chosen CITADISTM - the 14th in France. This further confirms ALSTOM's success with this tramway product line and its leadership on the French tram market, where 80% of the steel-wheel trams are ALSTOM-built. To date, over 400 CITADISTM are in commercial service worldwide out of a total of 800 CITADISTM ordered. CITADISTM trams have carried over 1 billion passengers and have demonstrated reliability over a total distance of 76 million kilometres.
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