Madrid Barajas Airport People Mover
| Madrid Barajas Airport People Mover | |||||||||
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 Madrid Barajas Airport People Mover
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| Route length: | 2.7 km | ||||||||
| Top speed: | 60 km / h | ||||||||
| Driving time: | about 3 min | ||||||||
| Number of tracks: | Two-pronged | ||||||||
| Power supply: | over two middle rails | ||||||||
| Passengers: | 100 million per year (2012) | ||||||||
| Installation: | December 2005 | ||||||||
| Operator: | Bombardier Transportation | ||||||||
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The Madrid Barajas Airport People Mover is a 2.7 km driverless transport system between Terminal T4 and the T4S satellite at Madrid-Barajas Airport .
history
It is the first driverless transport system in Spain and the longest at a European airport. Bombardier is the operator of the underground system, including the design, construction, operation and maintenance.
At the platforms, platform screen doors prevent passengers from entering the lane or areas that are not generally accessible. Vehicles of the type Bombardier Innovia APM 100 are used. Similar to buses, they drive with air-filled rubber-tyred wheels on a concrete roadway, in the middle of which a guide device with two conductor rails is mounted for the supply and discharge of the traction current.
The buildings in the new airport building, which went into operation in 2006, serve Schengen with Terminal T4 - and with the T4S satellite, above all, non-Schengen air traffic. They are structurally separated from each other due to air traffic. They are connected by a tunnel that crosses under the runway. The tunnel has two floors with three chambers each. In the upper tunnel, the Airport People Mover runs over a width of 13 m and there are lanes for authorized vehicles to the right and left of it. The lower floor of the tunnel is reserved for automatic luggage transport.
Operations began in 2006 when the new terminal went into operation and had an average availability of 99.8%. In December 2012, Bombardier Transportation and AENA Aeropuertos Españoles SA signed a 10-year contract worth around € 41 million to continue operations as before.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Innovia APM 100 - Barajas International Airport, Madrid, Spain
- ↑ a b Bombardier to Run INNOVIA System at Madrid-Barajas Airport for 10 More Years. Press Release, December 20, 2012, accessed March 28, 2016.
- ↑ Isabelle Lomholt: Barajas Airport Madrid Architecture. Madrid Air Terminal Building, Spain - design by Richard Rogers Partnership + Estudio Lamela. Update March 6, 2014, retrieved March 28, 2016.