SINGAPORE

摘要

By late January Invensys Rail Dimetronic concluded a test operation at Changchun in China for the automation systems that it is to deploy on Singapore's Downtown Line, where trains are to run without onboard staff. Invensys Rail is supplying Sirius CBTC and Rail 9000 automatic train supervision technology, Westrace Mark 2 interlockings and platform screen doors for the line under a contract awarded by the Land Transport Authority in 2008. Dynamic trials on the 4 km, six station first phase of the Downtown Line were scheduled to begin in March, ready for opening in October. The line is being built in three phases to link the northwestern and eastern parts of the island to the Central Business District and Marina Bay.