U3 success helps automatisation for the second time around
Immediately after the commissioning of the new fully-automatic U3 metro line, VAG Vergkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nurnberg and Siemens AG, the general contractor, started to automate the existing Nurnberg U2 metro line (Rothenbach - Nuremberg Airport) in the summer of 2008. The U3 is Germany's first fully-automated metro line, which also runs in mixed operation with the conventional U2 line on a shared track. This article describes the success of the U3 so far; its availability, operations, vehicle doors and operations; and the U2 conversion to start at the end of 2009.
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Authors:
- Muller, R
- Publication Date: 2009
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 19-21
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Serial:
- EUROTRANSPORT
- Publisher: RUSSELL PUBLISHING LTD
- ISSN: 1478-8217
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automation; Case studies; Passenger transportation; Public transit; Subways; Urban areas
- Geographic Terms: Germany
- ITRD Terms: 3882: Automatic; 8531: Case study; 8125: Germany; 1146: Passenger transport; 744: Public transport; 1191: Underground railway; 313: Urban area
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; I70: Traffic and Transport;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01144062
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: TRL
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Nov 16 2009 12:24PM