Communications-based Train Control - Projects

Projects

CBTC technology has been (and is being) successfully implemented for a variety of applications as shown in the figure below (mid 2011). They range from some implementations with short track, limited numbers of vehicles and few operating modes (such as the airport APMs in San Francisco or Washington), to complex overlays on existing railway networks carrying more than a million passengers each day and with more than 100 trains (such as lines 1 and 6 in Metro de Madrid, line 3 in Shenzhen Metro, some lines in Paris Metro and Beijing Metro, or the Sub-Surface network SSR in London Underground).


Despite the difficulty, the table below tries to summarize and reference the main radio-based CBTC systems deployed around the world as well as those ongoing projects being developed. Besides, the table distinguishes between the implementations performed over existing and operative systems (brownfield) and those undertaken on completely new lines (Greenfield).

We must take into account that the transmission technology based on inductive loops (referred to as TBTC in this article) is now being less and less used. That is why, for clarity, all the projects listed here are modern radio-based CBTC systems making use of the moving block concept as described above.

CBTC project list around the world (radio-based and moving block principle)
Location Line/System Supplier Solution Commissioning Km No. of trains Comments
San Francisco Airport AirTrain APM
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2003
5
38
 Greenfield, UTO
Singapore Metro North-East Line
ALSTOM
 Urbalis
2003
20
40
 Greenfield, UTO
Seattle-Tacoma Airport Satellite Transit System APM
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2003
3
22
 Brownfield, UTO
Las Vegas Monorail
THALES
 SelTrac RF
2004
6
36
 Greenfield, UTO
Wuhan Metro 1
THALES
 SelTrac
2004
27
32
Dallas-Fortworth Airport DFW Skylink APM
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2005
10
64
 Greenfield, UTO
Hong Kong Disneyland Penny´s Bay Line
THALES
 SelTrac RF
2005
3
2
 Greenfield, UTO
Lausanne Metro M2
ALSTOM
 Urbalis
2008
6
17
 Greenfield, UTO
Beijing Airport Express
ALSTOM
 Urbalis
2008
28
10
 Greenfield, DTO
Beijing Metro 2
ALSTOM
 Urbalis
2008
23
48
 Brownfield, STO
Metro de Madrid 1, 6
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2008
48
143
 Brownfield, STO
Las Vegas-McCarran Airport McCarran Airport APM
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2008
2
10
 Brownfield, UTO
London Heathrow Airport Heathrow APM
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2008
1
9
 Greenfield, UTO
Metro de Barcelona 9
SIEMENS
 Trainguard MT CBTC
2009
46
50
 Greenfield, UTO
New York City Subway BMT Canarsie Line
SIEMENS
 Trainguard MT CBTC
2009
17
53
 Brownfield, STO
Washington-Dulles Airport Dulles APM
THALES
 SelTrac RF
2009
8
29
 Greenfield, UTO
Shanghai Metro 6, 7, 8, 9
THALES
 SelTrac
2009
135
111
 Greenfield and Brownfield
Taipei Metro Neihu-Mucha
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2009
26
76
 Greenfield and Brownfield, UTO
Philadelphia SEPTA Light Rail Green Line
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2010
8
115
 STO
Beijing Metro 4
THALES
 SelTrac
2010
28
33
 DTO
Guangzhou Metro Pearl River Line APM
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2010
4
19
 Greenfield, DTO
Guangzhou Metro 3
THALES
 SelTrac RF
2010
67
40
 DTO
London Gatwick Airport Terminal Transfer APM
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2010
1
6
 Brownfield, UTO
Paris Metro 3, 5
ANSALDO STS / SIEMENS
 Inside RATP´s
Ouragan project
2010, 2013
26
40
 Brownfield, STO
Yongin EverLine ART
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2011
19
30
 UTO
Shenzhen Metro 3
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2011
42
43
 STO
Metro de Madrid 7 Extension MetroEste
INVENSYS
 SIRIUS
2011
9
?
 Brownfield, STO
Dubai Metro Red, Green
THALES
 SelTrac
2011
70
85
 Greenfield, UTO
Seoul Metro Bundang Line
THALES
 SelTrac
2011
17
12
 Greenfield, DTO
Shenyang Metro 1
ANSALDO STS
 CBTC
2011
27
23
 Greenfield, STO
Sacramento International Airport Sacramento APM
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2011
1
2
 Greenfield, UTO
Paris Metro 1
SIEMENS
 Trainguard MT CBTC
2011
16
53
 Brownfield, DTO
Tianjin Metro 2, 3
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2012
52
40
 STO
Singapore Metro Circle
ALSTOM
 Urbalis
2009
35
40
 Greenfield, UTO
Metro Santiago 1
ALSTOM
 Urbalis
2012
20
42
 Greenfield and Brownfield, DTO
São Paulo Metro 1, 2, 3
ALSTOM
 Urbalis
2012
62
142
 Greenfield and Brownfield, DTO
Algiers Metro 1
SIEMENS
 Trainguard MT CBTC
2012
9
14
 Greenfield, STO
Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport PHX Sky Train
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2012
3
18
 Greenfield, UTO
Riyadh KAFD Monorail
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2012
4
12
 Greenfield, UTO
Shanghai Metro 11
THALES
 SelTrac RF
2012
50
58
 Brownfield and Greenfield
São Paulo Commuter Lines 8, 10, 11
INVENSYS
 SIRIUS
2012
107
136
 Brownfield, STO
Helsinki Metro 1
SIEMENS
 Trainguard MT CBTC
2014
35
?
 Greenfield and Brownfield, STO
Paris Metro 13
THALES
 SelTrac RF
2013
23
66
 STO
Beijing Metro 8, 10
SIEMENS
 Trainguard MT CBTC
2013
49
82
 STO
Nanjing Metro 2, 10
SIEMENS
 Trainguard MT CBTC
2013
38
35
 Greenfield
Caracas Metro 1
INVENSYS
 SIRIUS
2013
21
?
 Brownfield
São Paulo Metro Tiradentes Monorail Extension Line 2
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2014
25
54
 Greenfield, UTO
Stockholm Metro Red
ANSALDO STS
 CBTC
2014
41
30
 Brownfield, STO
Jeddah Airport King Abdulaziz APM
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2014
2
6
 Greenfield, UTO
Incheon Metro 2
THALES
 SelTrac RF
2014
29
37
 UTO
Munich Airport Munich Airport T2 APM
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2014
1
12
 Greenfield, UTO
São Paulo Metro 5
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2015
20
34
 Brownfield & Greenfield, UTO
Taipei Metro Circular
ANSALDO STS
 CBTC
2015
15
17
 Greenfield, UTO
Singapore Metro Downtown
INVENSYS
 SIRIUS
2016
40
73
 Greenfield, UTO
Taichung Metro Green
ALSTOM
 Urbalis
2017
18
29
 Greenfield, UTO
Kuala Lumpur MRT Klang Valley MRT
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2017
51
74
 Greenfield, UTO
New York City Subway IRT Flushing Line
THALES
 SelTrac RF
2017
25
46
 Brownfield, STO
London Underground SSR Lines: Metropolitan, District, Circle, Hammersmith & City
BOMBARDIER
 CITYFLO 650
2018
190
334
 Brownfield, STO
Rennes ART B
SIEMENS
 Trainguard MT CBTC
2018
12
19
 Greenfield, UTO
Copenhagen S-Train All lines
SIEMENS
 Trainguard MT CBTC
2018
170
136
 Brownfield, STO
Budapest Metro M2, M4
SIEMENS
 Trainguard MT CBTC
?
17
41
Guangzhou Metro 4, 5
SIEMENS
 Trainguard MT CBTC
?
70
?
São Paulo Metro 4
SIEMENS
 Trainguard MT CBTC
?
13
14
 Greenfield, UTO
Marmaray Lines Commuter Lines
INVENSYS
 SIRIUS
?
77
?
 Greenfield, STO

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