Urbos

Urbos is a family of tramcar company Construcciones y Auxiliar the Basque de Ferrocarriles.

History

The Spanish rail manufacturer CAF, based in the town in the province of Gipuzkoa Beasain could already have a large experience in the construction of subway trains. In 1993 he started in the production of trams to enter. For the Metrovalencia he made from 1993 to 1999 16 tracks with 70 % low-floor, in cooperation with Siemens, where the bogies and traction systems came. Similarly, in 1995 six cars were delivered for the tram Lisbon. Subsequently, the company to develop its own type of trams, to be built entirely in-house decided.

The first order for the Urbos came from the tram Bilbao, for between 2004 and 2006 eight cars were delivered. The installation was carried out at the production sites Zaragoza and Linares.

Series

Currently, there are three series of Urbos railcar. Not all cars of the same model are identical because they were adapted to the local characteristics of tram networks.

Urbos 1

The first generation is only used in the Basque Bilbao. Eight cars were produced, of which seven to 70% and 100% are low floor. This is three-part articulated buses. The head modules have a motor bogie and the central part of a bogie. Due to lack of turning loops at the ends of the track in Bilbao, the trains are bi-directional vehicles.

Urbos 2

For the next order of three trams at CAF from the tram Vélez -Málaga, an improved model was delivered: Urbos 2 This multi- articulated cars consist of five car bodies in the configuration engine head, litter, midsection, litter, power head.

A car was equipped with the storage system ACR ( acumulador de Carga Rápida ) to conduct trial runs on catenary -free sections can. This car was used in the tram Seville to the local fleet vehicles of the type Urbos was replaced 3.

Currently, this model is used in the following tram systems:

  • Tram Vélez -Málaga,
  • Tram Vitoria -Gasteiz,
  • Metro Sevilla
  • Tram Sevilla (only up to March 2011),
  • Antalya tram.

Future of employment are under construction Edinburgh tram is provided. These cars will be different, especially in the outer shape of the rest. making them more similar than the two series see the series 3. The new design was already sufficiently developed to be used in this car.

Urbos 3

The most important feature of this series is the possibility to install the system ACR ( acumulador de Carga Rápida ), which makes it possible to drive on routes without catenary ( battery railcars ). Although this system can be installed in the other series, CAF praises the Urbos 3 as a definitive solution for urban traffic, because the problem of integration of catenary masts and is eliminated in the cityscape. The ACR system loads at each stop in UltraCaps the energy needed to reach the next stop. CAF examined other systems such Alimentation par Sol (APS), fuel cell and flywheel, but rejected it because of high costs or lack of suitability.

Furthermore, additional improvements have been made on the sheets. The design was revised and the interior design was changed from an ergonomic standpoint. The traction converter now use the IGBT technology and enable the use of braking energy.

It offered in standard gauge and meter gauge variations. The superstructure width can be selected between 2300, 2400 and 2650 millimeters. The sheets can contain from 3, 5, 7 or 9 modules, so that the length 23 to 54 meters varied.

The first tracks of the series Urbos 3 went on 21 March 2011 at the tram Sevilla in operation. On April 19, 2011, a second tram system went with Urbos 3 cars in operation: the tram Zaragoza. In addition, paths for different networks under construction or in planning:

  • Tram Belgrade (30 trains)
  • Metro Granada
  • Metro Málaga
  • Nantes tram ( 8)
  • Tram Besançon ( 19)
  • Tram Cádiz,
  • Tram Edinburgh,
  • Tram Tallinn ( 15)
  • Tram Stockholm ( 15)
  • Tram Freiburg im Breisgau ( ordered 12 trains, start from 2015 )
  • Cuiabá (40 trains ordered)
  • Debrecen (18 trains ordered in 2011, starting from February 26, 2014 )
  • Zaragoza tram (21 )
  • Midland Metro (20 trains, option 5)
  • Kaohsiung
  • Cincinnati
  • Sydney ( 6 trains )

The battery option ACR was delivered for the tram Sevilla. There, the operator had until then to remove the requirement for the overall direction at times traditional processions. With the opening at Easter 2011, the catenary could be removed permanently.

Urbos AXL

The Urbos AXL is a planned model of the CAF, which is currently in development. This car should reach a top speed of 90 kilometers per hour. It should be equipped with larger modules and bogies with continuous axes. The Urbos AXL is designed specifically for the S -Bahn.

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