Barcelona Line 9 – The First Driverless Metro in Spain
by Corinne Braban, (Siemens Transportation Systems, STS SAS, Business Unit Automatic Train Control, 50 rue Barbès, 92542 Montrouge Cedex, France E-mail: corinne.braban@siemens.com) and Gérard Yelloz, (Siemens Transportation Systems, STS SAS, 50 rue Barbès, 92542 Montrouge Cedex, France E-mail: gerard.yelloz@siemens.com)
pp. 1-12, (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40766(174)71)
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Conference Proceeding Paper |
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Automated People Movers 2005: Moving to Mainstream |
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First driverless line in Spain, the new metro line 9 under construction will soon become the backbone of the Barcelona’s public transport system. Early March 2003, GISA — Generalidat de Catalunya — awarded Siemens Transportation Systems and its consortium the contract for equipping the line 9 with CBTC for driverless train operation. The CBTC system will equip 50 steel-wheeled trains running on 42 km of line. The paper provides an overview of the driverless signalling project. |
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