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ALSTOM HAS OBTAINED THE TYPE LICENCE FOR THE M4 VEHICLES


19 february 2013

Alstom Transport has obtained the type licence for the vehicles manufactured for Metro Line 4 from the National Transport Authority. In the possession of the licence, Alstom will now be able to start the continuous delivery of the serially manufactured trains in Budapest. Alstom Transport has manufactured two prototype vehicles already, one of which has the final design, having no temporary driver’s cabin with a view to the automatic mode of operation.

As a result of the design, the new METROPOLIS trains of Metro Line 4 will provide unique travel experience and spectacle when, following the one-year period after commissioning with operation supervised by train attendants, it will run in driverless mode. Passengers will be able to see the tunnel through both the front and back windows of the train, and watch how the train runs in the brand new tunnel. Budapest will be the 12th town in Europe to have an automatic mode metro line.

The Metro Line 4 trains will be made up of 4 cars. Like the trains already running on Metro Line 2, they will be articulated, passengers freely moving all along the whole train. The cutting-edge carriages have ergonomic seats, warm colour layout, air-conditioning and modern lighting systems to care for the comfort of passengers.

The new Metro Line 4 trains will be capable of driverless, i.e. fully automatic, operation mode in the future, but the Budapest public used to train drivers in their metros for the past 117 years will not be left without train service staff in the initial period of revenue service.

In this first-year period, the trains will have a driver’s cabin in METROPOLIS trains for the train attendant, though the train will be driven by the automatic train control system. This means that reliable software will be responsible for starting the trains, opening and closing the doors, keeping the safety gaps between trains, as a result of which schedules will be more exact, gaps shorter, and the operation of the entire line will be much safer. After the initial period, operation with attendants will cease, and fully automatic operation mode will begin; Alstom’s experts will disassemble the driver’s cabin and its wall, which will enable passengers to look out through the train windows as though they were driving the vehicle.

Throughout the world, there are 41 metro lines operating fully automatic trains in London, Paris, Barcelona, Singapore, Seoul, and Tokyo among others. In Europe, there are all together 15 automatic metro lines operating in Copenhagen, Barcelona, Turin, Paris, other French cities, Nuremberg, and Lausanne. On our continent, Budapest will be the 12th city to run an automatic, driverless metro line.

It is also interesting to note that Alstom, involved in manufacturing metro trains for the past 70 years, is an absolute world record holder in automatic trains, having built the world’s longest, 45 km driverless line, Singapore’s Circle Line, in 2010.

Budapest Municipality
ALSTOM Transport