CP Urbanos do Porto

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A class 3400 train at Vila Nova de Gaia station (Urbano Linha de Aveiro line )
Train of the same series at São Félix da Marinha (Urbano line Linha de Aveiro )
If necessary, trains from the 2240 series - actually intended for regional traffic - are also used. Here at Granja (Urbano line Linha de Aveiro )
Also class 3400 train at São Félix da Marinha (Urbano line Linha de Aveiro )

The CP Urbanos do Porto , also CP Porto , in German "Railways of Portugal Suburban Trains from Porto", formerly Unidade de Suburbanos do Grande Porto (USGP), is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Portuguese state railway Comboios de Portugal . It operates the entire suburban railway network in the Porto area with routes to Aveiro , Braga , Guimarães and Marco de Canaveses . The subsidiary is based in Porto São Bento train station .

history

CP Urbanos do Porto , founded in 1997, operates four suburban railway lines, but almost all of them have mixed traffic with the Intercidades and Alfa trains. All lines begin at the São Bento inner-city train station, run via the inner-city connecting train to the central station in Porto, Porto-Campanhã , and branch out to either the Linha do Minho or Linha do Norte railway line . In contrast to the suburban railway lines in Lisbon, most of the lines in and around Porto are only served every hour and are sometimes supplemented by express trips during rush hour - so the traffic is more similar to German regional express trains than a S-Bahn service. All train services of CP Urbanos do Porto belong to the Urbano train type .

The trains of the 3400 series , procured in 2002 and produced by Siemens Transportation Systems and Bombardier Transportation , are used on almost all suburban lines . At times, however, due to the strong demand, trains from the 2240 series intended for regional traffic are still in use, as the subsidiary does not have enough of its own rolling stock.

Due to the dramatic budget crisis in Portugal since 2008, the Portuguese government is planning to tender the individual line families from the end of 2011, analogous to the CP Urbanos de Lisboa , and thus possibly have them operated by foreign rail companies. However, this has not yet taken place (2014).

For 1½ years, between May 2009 and January 2011, CP Porto also operated local traffic on the Linha de Leixões railway line, which was primarily intended for freight traffic to the port of Leixões . Due to a lack of demand and cost reasons, traffic was stopped again.

There are currently plans to integrate part of the Linha do Vouga narrow-gauge line into the CP Porto network. A feasibility study was carried out on behalf of the Porto Metropolitan Region, which confirmed that the plans had a positive cost-benefit factor. A timely implementation is not yet in sight.

network

line course stretch
Linha de Guimarães Porto São Bento - Trofa - Guimarães Linha do Minho , Linha de Guimarães
Linha de Aveiro Porto São Bento - Espinho - Aveiro Linha do Norte
Linha de Braga Porto São Bento - Trofa - Braga Linha do Minho , Ramal de Braga
Linha de Marco Porto Sao Bento - Marco de Canaveses Linha do Minho , Linha do Douro

Data

In 2007 the subsidiary of the Portuguese State Railways achieved a profit of 17.9 million euros, in 2008 19.7 million euros; the compensation payment from the Portuguese state for suburban traffic amounted to 21.5 million euros in 2007 and rose to 26.7 million euros by 2010.

In 2011 the company carried 21.092 million passengers.

A good 90 percent of all trains operated by CP Urbanos do Porto run on time. In 2011, 84 percent of all trains on the Linha de Aveiro were on time (2007: 93%, 2008: 90.4%, 2010: 78%), on the Linha de Braga 94% (2007: 97.4%, 2008: 95, 6%, 2010: 87%), on the Linha de Guimarães 94% (2007: 94.1%, 2008: 95.7%, 2010: 84%) and on the Linha de Marco 92% (2007: 97.7 %, 2008: 96.2%, 2010: 88%). In 2012 the company employed 356 people.

Since November 2002 the CP Urbanos do Porto has been certified according to EN ISO 9001: 2000 by the Associação Portuguesa de Certificação .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jorge Lopes: CP Porto sem comboios para tanta procura , Jornal de Notícias , January 15, 2010
  2. ^ Carlos Cipriano: Governo já tem calendário para entregar suburbanos de Lisboa e Porto a privados. Público, October 19, 2010, accessed February 23, 2014 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Pedro Olava Simões: Deixa de apitar o comboio fantasma. Jornal de Notícas, February 1, 2011, accessed February 14, 2014 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Trenmo Engenheria SA: Estudo do custo-benefício da linha Ferroviária do Vouga no TROCO Oliveira de Azeméis-Espinho-Porto. (PDF) Área Metropolitana do Porto, March 30, 2012, accessed on February 14, 2014 (Portuguese).
  5. ↑ LUSA: Area Metropolitana do Porto critica “desinvestimento” in infra-estruturas do Norte. Público, January 31, 2014, accessed February 14, 2014 (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Comboios de Portugal, EPE: 5.2. Construir a sustentabilidade económico-financeira: Evolução dos Proveitos. (PDF (2.2 MB)) (No longer available online.) Relátorio de Sustentabilidade 2007/2008, June 2009, p. 40 , archived from the original on January 28, 2011 ; Retrieved February 23, 2014 (Portuguese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cp.pt
  7. ^ A b Comboios de Portugal, EPE: Qualidade do serviço. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Relatório de Sustentabilidade 2011, 2012, p. 45 , archived from the original on March 3, 2014 ; Retrieved February 23, 2014 (Portuguese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cp.pt
  8. ↑ Comboios de Portugal, EPE: 5.4. Melhorar o serviço: Pontualidade. (PDF (3.5 MB)) (No longer available online.) Relátorio de Sustentabilidade 2007/2008, June 2009, p. 48 , archived from the original on January 28, 2011 ; Retrieved February 23, 2014 (Portuguese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cp.pt
  9. ↑ Comboios de Portugal, EPE: A nossa organização: Estrutura operacional. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Relatório de Sustentabilidade 2012, 2013, p. 30 , archived from the original on March 3, 2014 ; Retrieved February 23, 2014 (Portuguese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cp.pt

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