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In addition to distribution with the monthly publication, over the past four years we have produced over 25,000 additional copies for both internal and external circulation for transport authorities and operators such as yarra Trams, docklands Light Railway, Casa Tram, Manchester Metrolink, Tyne & Wear Metro, dublin Luas, dubai Metro, Nottingham Express Transit, Brest Tramway, Isle of Man Railways, Budapest Centre for Public Transport, Tranvia de Zaragoza and for companies including Keolis, INIT, yapi Merkezi and Construcciones y Auziliar de Ferrocarriles ( CAF).

More prosaic things mark it out too:

“It’s the first tramway in the Gulf,” explains

Alstom’s Managing Director GCC countries

and Project Director of Dubai Tram, Vincent

Prou, “The first challenge is to incorporate a

tramway into a city that has never seen such a

system before and also to integrate with quite

a few stakeholders.

“It’s the first of its kind in many respects.

Full APS along the line is an important one,”

says Prou. “You have to manage temperatures

of 50°C, which on the roof [where much of

Dubai

It is 10.6km (6.6 miles) long and uses

Alstom Citadis trams. Such a statement

could make the Dubai Tramway

appear pretty ordinary – but that’s one

thing it certainly is not.

The new light rail line opened in

November 2014, under a ‘turnkey’ contract

with Alstom that includes maintenance for

13 years. Like the Gulf State’s metro, the

tramway is operated by Serco, under a deal

signed in 2013 that included a period of

preparation then five years of operation.

The tramway is part of a programme

intended to move public transport take-up

from 15% to 30%.

Situated on the Persian Gulf, Dubai has

a hot – and sandy – climate. Those things

themselves create technical challenges, but the

line also brings together various innovative

features in one place. Most eye-catchingly, it

is the first modern tramway of its kind to be

completely wire-free over its whole service

length, using Alstom’s Alimentation par le Sol

system of ground-level current collection.

The new tramway in Dubai brought

together a number of technical

innovations in one place when it opened

in November 2014; TAUT reports.

DUBAI: SHOWCASEFOR THE GULF?

ABOVE: A Citadis stops at Media City.

Initial inspiration for the design came

from local architecture; this evolved

into the ‘jewel concept’, reflected in the

design of the bespoke element of the

nose of the trams. Neil Pulling

LEFT: One of the Alstom Citadis fleet

crossing the bridge at Dubai Marina.

Neil Pulling

RIGHT: Automatic platform screen

doors were an innovation – due to

Dubai’s harsh climate, Alstom mocked

up the doors and tested them through

millions of cycles to ensure their

continued performance. John Smith

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the trams’ equipment is located] can reach

80°C. You have to manage sandstorms, you

have to manage humidity and corrosion

because you are next to the sea.”

Perhaps it’s no surprise then, as Prou

explains, that Alstom “had to re-engineer

a number of key aspects.” These included

relatively prosaic things as well as the more

headline-grabbing features. For example,

compared to other markets, the trams’ heating,

ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC)

systems had to be increased in size to cope.

Dubai’s harsh climate also had a key

influence on the design of stops, which are

quite different to the more basic calling

points common in many places across the

globe. Here, explains Prou, the line has fully

enclosed passenger stations “which in turn

imposed something new for a tramway,

automatic platform screen doors. They are

very exposed to the environment.”

In order to judge the effects on the doors

over time under these difficult conditions,

Alstom built a ‘mock up’ station to try it out.

“We replicated the kind of passenger

station and we recreated the operation for ten

years,” said Prou. “We had the doors opening

and closing every ten seconds to come up

with millions of cycles.”

However platform screen doors were

not the only aspect of the new line subjected

to rigorous testing. Indeed, a whole 44m

tram was taken to be thoroughly tested in

the Rail Tec Arsenal climactic wind tunnel

in Wien (Vienna), Austria; Alstom has a stake

in the state-of-the-art facility, which also

DUBAI TRAMWAY AT A GLANCE

December

2009: Construction

begins

November

2014: First

tram runs

Client: Dubai

Roads and

Transport

Authority

Turnkey

contractor:

Alstom/BESIX

consortium

Owner’s representative:

SYSTRA

Power supply:

APS II ground-

level

3 Number of classes

on the trams: Gold,

Silver, and Green

(women and children).

11 Fully enclosed

stations, with

platform screen doors

and air-conditioning.

100 Percentage

of main line

that is catenary free,

powered using Alstom’s

APS.

1 Number of control

centres for the line.

10.6 Distance in

kilometres

(6.6 miles) of first phase

tramway that opened in

November 2014.

13 Number of years

of Alstom’s

maintenance contract.

8 Traction power

substations.

11 Number of

44m fully low-floor

Alstom Citadis 402 to

provide the service

(capacity 405, length

44m, maximum

speed 50km/h/30mph).

408 Passenger

capacity

per tram.

23 Road junctions

equipped to

give the tramway full

priority over other road

vehicles.

66 000 Expected daily

passenger numbers

by 2020. Expectations

were for 27 000 per day

initially.

14.7 Distance in

kilometres

(9.1 miles) once a

planned second phase

extension has opened;

integration with the

Mall of the World

will influence this

development. Ideas

also exist to expand

the tramway further

in the mid-term.

14 Number of trams

in option for

second phase.

Dubai tramway statistics

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within the UK and internationally, and helps ensure that our industry is well informed and up to date.”Chris Coleman, Managing Director, Metrolink RATP Dev

“Co-operation between PRAGOIMEX a.s. and Tramways & Urban Transit has been developing for over two years, and in this period there have been some highly knowledgeable articles concerning the history and the activities of our company, whose activities and promotions are aimed at the production and supplies of tramcars not only at the domestic but also foreign markets. We have always worked closely with the team at TAUT with maximum

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evaluate the possibility of replicating the TransitWay in their communities. Proponents of electrified LRT had argued, to no avail, for rapid transit. Both LRT and metro-type heavy rail schemes were mooted, yet the final decision fell in favour of rubber tyres on asphalt. Articulated buses would be purchased to increase vehicle capacity and as a concession to the rail proponents, a promise was made to investigate the possibility of converting the TransitWay to steel-wheel- on-steel-rail once expected ridership rose to support the investment.

Welcoming the O-TrainIn the meantime, there was a transit need in southwest Ottawa which offered an opportunity for the disappointed rail supporters. Carleton University sits to the south of Dows Lake; its current enrolment is 28 000. As a passenger generator, typical of all colleges and universities, it was only served by an east-west bus service so besides students, faculty and staff, residents of the area were forced to travel around the lake, before turning north to their destinations.Dows Lake is a large recreational area within Ottawa’s boundaries so the thought of a bridge over it was unacceptable and a motorway tunnel was just as unfundable. There was also the Central Experimental Farm’s vast acreage blocking highway construction.

There was, however, a little-used Canadian National Railway freight line that ran north-

since the establishment of Canada in 1867, Ottawa has been its capital city. From horse cars to streetcars, to electric and diesel buses, the city’s public transit has evolved – and to date mostly towards road transport. Yet with a population of nearly 900 000, Ottawa is growing at a faster rate than the national average with a local rate for the past 14 years of over 7.9%, whilst Canada’s is 4.8%. More importantly, the more transit-dependent population aged 65 and over was 11.5% in 2001 and is forecast to grow to 16.3% in 2021. With such growth, it is important for public transport to keep pace. Going back over 55 years, the greatest setback for light rail in the city came in 1959 with the closure of the last four

streetcar routes following two consultants’ recommendations – the deck-roofed streetcars were subsequently replaced by diesel buses. Sadly, the 17.7km (11-mile) Britannia route was lost; this line travelled westerly to Britannia Park on mostly private right-of-way. Just one month later, the only trolleybus line, Bronson, converted to diesel operation, ending electric transit in the city. As mayor in the mid-1950s, George Nelms heartily wished all streetcars off the city’s streets. He was so opposed to streetcars that he tried to have them all scrapped, fortunately, at least five have survived: ExpoRail, Saint-Constant, Quebec (859); Seashore Trolley Museum, Maine, USA (825),

Ottawa (696), at OC Transpo’s St. Laurent Garage (905) and at OC Transpo’s Merivale Garage and Canadian Railroad Historical Association, Ottawa (954).From 1973, the transit operator has been OC Transpo (Ottawa-Carleton Regional Transit Commission), a City of Ottawa department. Previous operators were

the Ottawa Electric Railway until 1948, when the City acquired the company and traded under the name Ottawa Transportation Commission.

From 1959 to the early 1980s, city buses on city streets held sway. As with all North American cities, studies continued to investigate transit options and with worsening congestion a serious search for a remedy was undertaken. The chosen solution was unique.

Following years of planning and discussions – rubber versus rail – the concept of a bus rapid transit (BRT) scheme was accepted and a system of busways, called TransitWay, was recommended and approved in 1980. Operating much like a traditional streetcar system, a grade-separated, private-right-of-way was created. Constructed in segments, close to the downtown area routes were trunked to speed passengers past congested highways whilst in the suburbs separate routes exited the TransitWay for local distribution of passengers. This was a true bus rapid transit (BRT) service and visitors from around the world came to

From a pilot diesel LRT scheme 14 years ago, the Canadian capital is now building a low-floor electric tramway that runs, in part, under the heart of the city. Herbert Pence explores both systems.

OTTAWA: A TALe OF TWO sysTems ABOVe: An artist’s

rendering of Blair station on the Confederation line at twilight; the new low-floor system opens to passengers in 2018. City of Ottawa

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