METROPOLIS Rolling Stock for AXONIS

摘要

ALSTOM's experience in metro building goes back over 70 years, and over 25,000 cars have been sold so far. ALSTOM is a pioneer with the first welded aluminium carbody (MF 77 in Paris) and with the first rubber tired metro car (MP 51 in Paris). Today, in over 40 cities, one of four metro cars in operation worldwide is an ALSTOM vehicle, and 6 billion passengers are transported every year by ALSTOM's metros. In order to be ready for the evolving market requirements, together with an integration of the latest findings in metro technology, in 1997 ALSTOM had decided to create a fully modular metro vehicle range: METROPOLIS. This range was aimed to provide for worldwide coverage, the ability for high customisation, possible local manufacturing, short delivery time and low life-cycle costs. Last not least, METROPOLIS was aimed to become the backbone of ALSTOM's automatic metro product line AXONIS; METROPOLIS covering the medium and high transport capacities range of AXONIS. The choice was settled on a fully flexible bodyshell to fit different physical constraints (tunnel gabarits, gradients,...) and customer requirements, within a modular concept with proven equipment for configuration and flexibility, offering attractive interiors and external shapes. METROPOLIS thus consists of standard products and equipments such as propulsion and electronics, flexible major sub-assemblies with variable characteristics such as bodyshell, and customisable elements such as front ends and passenger amenities. The METROPOLIS range covers vehicle dimensions from 16 to 25 meters in length and 2.6 to 3.2 meter in width. It can be fitted with 2 to 5 doors per side. Power voltage can be chosen to be 750 V DC or 1500 V DC. Standardized bogies offer a maximum speed of 100 kph. The ONIX traction inverters equipped with IGBT together with the AGATE-Link vehicle and train network ensure reliable operation.