Bombardier Wins Contracts for the First Monorails in Thailand

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Bombardier Wins Contracts for the First Monorails in Thailand

SOURCE: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION

 

Rendering of Bombardier INNOVIA monorail.

Photo credit: Bombardier

 

Bombardier Transportation has announced two contracts for its Bombardier INNOVIA Monorail 300 system for two mass rapid transit lines in Bangkok.

 

This will improve the commute for more than 400,000 people - every day. The contracts are with the Northern Bangkok Monorail Co. Ltd. (NBM) and the Eastern Bangkok Monorail Co. Ltd. (EBM), responsible for the turnkey construction and 30-year concession of the new, elevated lines.

 

Richard Hunter, president of rail control solutions and South East Asia at Bombardier Transportation said, "Bombardier is helping cities across the world address their congestion issues and these iconic monorails will be an important addition to Bangkok's growing rail network, providing comfortable, quick travel for hundreds of thousands of passengers daily.

 

Our driverless INNOVIA Monorail 300 system offers energy efficiency, sleek design, spacious interiors and inter-car walkthrough for superb comfort and enhanced safety as well as rubber tires for minimized noise and a smooth ride. Also able to handle sharp curves and complex environments, it is well suited to the high-capacity requirements of the Thai capital. Falling in our 20th Anniversary Year in Thailand, it is truly a landmark milestone for our monorail technology to be chosen for these visionary urban development projects in Bangkok."

 

Bombardier will design and supply the mechanical & electrical elements for the two monorail lines, and deliver a combined total of 72, four-car INNOVIA Monorail 300 trains (288 cars) equipped with BOMBARDIER CITYFLO 650 automatic train control technology for driverless operation. The contract with NBM concerns the new 34.5 km Khae Rai-MinBuri (Pink) Line to operate with 42 trainsets. For EBM, scope comprises 30 train sets for the 30.4 km Lat Phrao-Samrong (Yellow) Line.

 

Furthermore, the contracts include providing the project management, systems engineering and integration, testing and commissioning for the new trains and systems.

 

Operating in the city's northern and eastern areas, the monorails will integrate with the existing transportation network and run at speeds up to 80 km/h with a maximum capacity of over 28,000 passengers per-hour, per-direction.

 

Backed by over 25 years of experience and over 600 vehicles ordered or operating in six locations worldwide, Bombardier's INNOVIA Monorail 300 system provides a cost-effective and attractive solution for growing cities. Project delivery, system integration and rail control solution design and implementation will be led from Bombardier's regional hub in Bangkok.

 

The INNOVIA trainsets will be manufactured at the Bombardier Joint-Venture Puzhen Bombardier Transportation Systems (PBTS) in China, working with Bombardier's global Monorail Product and Engineering Experts. Since establishing its Bangkok site in 1997, Bombardier has grown its local team to over 450, working on transportation needs for Thailand, Asia Pacific and globally. Bombardier is also committed to the development of Thailand's future talent and is working with two universities on Railway Engineering Degree programes.

 

Source: http://www.masstransitmag.com/press_release/12359446/bombardier-wins-contracts-for-the-first-monorails-in-thailand

 

-- MASS TRANSIT 2017-08-15

[canuckamuck]

I guess Bombardier won't need to be bailed out by the Canadian government this year. The Thai government is doing it for them.

[steven100]

Well done Bombardier and well done Khun Prayuth Chan O Cha.

Thailand continues to move ahead with new rail contracts, road projects and the China-Thai HSR.

 

Thailand is a great place and as it continues to develop and maintain economic stability.

[Kerryd]

48 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

I guess Bombardier won't need to be bailed out by the Canadian government this year. The Thai government is doing it for them.

 

Oh I expect they'll be crying and whining to the Liberals about how hard done by they are (again) in the near future (well before the next budget) and how they need even more of those "non-repayable" loans or, gasp, they may have to consider layoffs ! 

Of course, I also expect that when they do get their bribes, er, fresh batch of "non-repayable" loans, the first thing that will happen will be that all their senior execs will award themselves multi-million dollar bonuses. Again.

 

The kicker will be to see what they actually do in Thailand as far as the actual project is concerned. Will it be a quality project done on time and on budget or............................?

 

Seems the trains (and probably the infrastructure) are being built in China.

Hmmmmmmmm - can almost smell the "wink wink, nudge nudge" ! (Keeping in mind that Trudeau really admires China's communist system of government and then there were all those "pay for access" dinners he used to have with all those Chinese businessmen, including ones who were making million dollar donations into Trudeau's "family trust fund" just out of the goodness of their hearts. Oh and the new "Investment" bank he helped China set up (with a hefty hunk of Canadian taxpayer's money of course). 

But hey ! If it all works then Bangkok will have a shiny new monorail system that should help out the transport grid. Of course, by the time it's actually built and running it could already be (significantly) over capacity. I remember when Swampy opened and it was expected to be able to handle  all (projected) traffic over the following (10+) years before they'd even have to start considering upgrades. Less than 5 years later they were already at peak capacity and needing to add another runway and expand operations (and it seems, barely 11 years after opening, that they need to expand even more to accommodate the numbers of arrivals/departures).

[Colabamumbai]

Driver less trains maybe a good idea for Thailand.

[Ulic]

Bombardier ________ The monorail will be a decade late and miles over budget.

A certain disaster. Just ask the Toronto public transit system procurement team.

[Xobtsiwt]

No doubt the Thai side will pare infrastructure down to a minimum so that everyone except the public gets their share to save money - thousands of stairs up from street level, with escalators and elevators limited to one per side per station, handicapped access limited to only one or two stations on the routes, four carriage trains which will be at capacity within six months of the system opening, running on platforms designed for six carriages, with fares priced out of range of the poorest 80% of the population to use regularly.

 

Just like the BTS, in fact.