Cityval or the Rubber Tire APM for Our Cities New Development

摘要

The last decade has confirmed an increased demand worldwide for fully automated transportation solutions in our cities, now supported by a large panel of available systems covering all type of line capacities; in particular rubber tire APM are pushed to run higher capacity trains, with an increased modularity and esthetic flexibility and applying last technologies better fitting with environmental constraints, in term of energy savings, simplified maintenance. The network approach is also a must for multi metro lines cities, not only through staff and components synergies, but also based on a compatible CBTC solution and a similar system concept, ensuring the fulfillment of RAMS level. Cityval fits with the last expectations for urban applications in addition to the rubber tire related benefits compared to Steel wheel solutions or Monorail (higher slope, sharp curves, noise reduction, reduced civil, light design…) and can easily be implemented as a back bone line in a network or a feeder line for a satellite city or a city district.