Baixada Santista light rail
 (VLT Baixada Santista) |
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| Country | Brazil |
| city | Santos / São Vicente |
| opening | 5th June 2016 |
| operator | EMTU-SP / BR Mobilidade |
| Infrastructure | |
| Track length | 11.5 km |
| Gauge | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Power system | Overhead line, 750 V direct current |
| Operating mode | Bidirectional operation |
| Depots | 1 |
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| Lines | 1 |
| Line length | 11.5 km |
| Clock in the peak hours | 10 min |
| vehicles | Vossloh Tramlink |
| Top speed | 70 km / h |
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The light rail of the Baixada Santista , in Portuguese "Veículo Leve sobre Trilhos da Baixa Santista" ("Light rail vehicle of the lowlands of Santos") is a light rail network in the metropolitan area of Baixada Santista and connects the two municipalities of Santos and São Vicente on the island of São Vicente . The light rail, which opened in April 2015, was built using the subgrade of an 11.5 kilometer long railway line that was used by passenger trains until 1999 and freight trains until 2008. However, the railway systems were rebuilt regularly . The state company EMTU-SPis responsible for the operation of the light rail, but has licensed it to the private consortium BR Mobilidade through a public-private partnership .
The light rail system is primarily used as a means of transport between the two communities and is now used by a good 270,000 passengers per month (data from February 2017). There are plans for expansion both within the center of the city of Santos and in the neighboring municipalities of Cubatão and Praia Grande .
Line network
The line network of the light rail of the Baixada Santista consists of a line with 15 above-ground stops.
| line | Line route |
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| 1 | Barreiros - Mascarenhas de Moraes - São Vicente - Antônio Emmerich - Nossa Senhora das Graças - José Monteiro - Itararé - João Ribeiro - Nossa Senhora de Lourdes - Pinheiro Machado - Bernardino de Campos - Ana Costa - Washington Luís - Conselheiro Nébias - Porto |
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Stops
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The Stadtbahn trains stop at permanently installed stops with central platforms. All platforms are completely covered and have access barriers for entering and exiting. All stops can be reached barrier-free via ramps.
From 2017, the EMTU-SP had platform screen doors installed on all platforms that open when a train stops. The costs for this amounted to 40 million reais. The platform screen doors should not only increase safety for passengers, but also contribute to better air conditioning at the stops, prevent the use of trains by non-paying passengers, and reduce rubbish pollution on the tracks.
Timetable
The trains of the light rail system run daily between 5.30 am and 11.30 pm every ten minutes.
Trains
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In 2012 the operator ordered 22 seven-part, multi- traction , low-floor, low-floor Tramlink V4 trains for the light rail system from Tremvia , a consortium of TTrans and Vossloh Kiepe . The trains are 43.7 meters long, 2.65 meters wide and 3.56 meters high and have five double doors and one single door on each side. The vehicles develop a continuous output of 4 × 105 kW, they are approved for a speed of 70 km / h.
The trains have classic pantographs on the roof and draw most of their power from overhead lines. They are also equipped with accumulators for operation on a section without catenary in the city center of Santos . A train can take up to 400 passengers.
The trains were completely produced in the Vossloh plant in Valencia and shipped to Santos. The last two of the 22 trains on order reached Santos in March 2018. All of the cars are located in the Pátio Porto depot. The vehicles are painted in white, red and blue - inspired by the colors of the flag of the state of São Paulo .
Tickets
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Single tickets ( Cartão Unitário ) for the use of the light rail can be purchased in accredited shops, kiosks and at all stops. All stops have access barriers (turnstiles), for the release of which the single ticket must be inserted. There are also personal prepaid cards under the name "Cartão BRCard" which can be used for several (but at least two) trips. Since June 2016, free access and connection buses of the operator EMTU-SP / BR Mobilidade can be used with the prepaid card. The aim of the operator should be to set up a kind of transport association in the region. There are also special tickets for passengers over the age of 60, passengers with limited mobility, and tickets for schoolchildren.
operator
The Brazilian state of São Paulo is the owner of the light rail network . The network is operated by the state transport company Empresa Metropolitana de Transportes Urbanos de São Paulo (EMTU-SP), which is also responsible for the operation of numerous bus lines, the metro and the suburban railways (CMTP) in São Paulo. Operation as such is licensed to the private consortium BR Mobilidade , consisting of the companies Viação Piracicabana S / A and Comporte Participações SA, via a public-private partnership .
history
Preparations
In the 2000s, the government of the state of São Paulo began developing plans for better local transport on the densely populated island of São Vicente with the two municipalities of Santos and São Vicente. Between 1990 and 1999, the federal company Ferrovia Paulista SA (“Fepasa” for short) already offered a type of suburban train service on a railway line on the island. However, in the course of the entire privatization of the Brazilian state railway company in the 1990s, operations were stopped. It made sense to use the existing track for a modern means of rail transport.
After years of planning, preparations began in 2012 for the construction of the new light rail network - the first modern light rail network in Brazil. The state parliament, the Assembleia Legislativa de São Paulo , had approved the project and authorized the government to use loans from the Brazilian government of 400 million reais. The groundbreaking of the construction work took place on May 29, 2013 in the presence of the governor of the state, Geraldo Alckmin , and the chairman of the parliament of São Paulo, Samuel Moreira .
Trial run
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On May 22, 2014, the first Tramlink V4 train produced by Vossloh in Valencia reached the port of Santos. On June 6, 2014, Governor Geraldo Alckmin opened the first five stops of the light rail ( Mascarenhas de Moraes , São Vicente , Antônio Emmerich , Nossa Senhora das Graças , José Monteiro ), although operations could not start yet.
On August 30, 2014, the first test drives without passengers began on a one-kilometer stretch of the already completed route between the Nossa Senhora das Graças and José Monteiro stops . Trial operations began on November 18, 2014 with selected passengers between the Antônio Emmerich and Mascarenhas de Moraes stops .
On April 27, 2015, the operator BR Mobilidade started a free, but still time-limited passenger service, initially open to the public: Between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., two vehicles drove between the Mascarenhas de Moraes and João Ribeiro stops at an average speed of around 20 km / h.
Full opening
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On January 31, 2016 - a good one and a half years after the first test run - the operator BR Mobilidade began the full commercial operation of the Baixada Santista light rail for a single ticket price of 3.80 reais. Until April, the trains initially only ran between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., from April 10 the BR Mobilidade extended the timetables to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. From March 5, 2017, the tram ran from 5.30 a.m. to 8 p.m., and since April 2018 the current timetable has run from 5.30 a.m. to 11.30 p.m.
In addition to the gradual expansion of the timetable, the entire route of the light rail system has also been expanded, so that the first construction phase has now been completely completed. On December 28, 2016, the extension by one stop from Pinheiro Machado to Bernardino de Campos followed , on January 31, 2017 the extension from Bernadino de Campos to Porto and from Mascarenhas de Moraes to Barreiros . On February 12, 2017, the Conselheiro Nébias stop was subsequently opened . Regardless of the construction of the route, which has its own independent tracks throughout, cycle paths run parallel through the tracks. A bicycle parking garage for up to 80 bicycles has been built at the final stop in Barreiros .
On June 15, 2016, the operator BR Mobilidade opened the operations control center ( Centro de Controle Operacional ) at the Pátio Porto depot. The depot, where all maintenance work on the wagons is carried out, has a capacity of up to 33 vehicles.
Planning
Expansion into the city center of Santos
The first line of the light rail of the Baixada Santista serves mainly as a connection between the municipalities of Santos and São Vicente . In order to better develop the city center of Santos, plans for the development of the center and the neighboring district of Valongo were drawn up when the first stretch was built.
The planning, which is comparable to the German plan approval procedure, began in May 2018 on behalf of the government of the State of São Paulo and the operator Empresa Metropolitana de Transportes Urbanos de São Paulo . The new line is to lead from the existing Conselheiro Nébias stop as a ring line in an arc through the center and comprise 14 stops. In addition to the city center of Santos, the university buildings of the Universidade Católica de Santos and the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp) as well as the Dos Estivadores hospital complex will be connected.
The cost of the route should amount to 430 million reais, including 270 to 280 million reais as the actual construction costs. Construction work is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2019 and will last 30 months.
Further planning
In addition, there are further wishes and ideas for possible expansions of the Baixada Santista light rail system, both on the part of the state government, the operator EMTU-SP and the municipalities of the region. The EMTU-SP is considering an extension of the first route from the Barreiros stop by 7.5 km and four stops to the Samaritá district of the municipality of São Vicente, which is located on the mainland. The Barreiros Bridge, which is in need of renovation anyway, would have to be renewed for the extension.
The neighboring municipality of Cubatão would like the light rail to be extended beyond the existing planum of the railway line that was last used only for freight trains. The municipality of Praia Grande also wants an extension from Barreiros to the transfer hub Terminal Tudo Bastos , where a changeover to a bus rapid transit system that is under construction could exist.
Web links
- Official website of the operator EMTU-SP (Portuguese)
- Official website of the operator BR Mobilidade (Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Institucional »Quem Somos. BR Mobilidade, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Estações do VLT. EMTU-SP, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Estado autoriza publicação do edital de novo trecho do VLT em Santos. Governo do Estado de São Paulo, March 26, 2018, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ^ Operação VLT. BR Mobilidade, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Selectron Systems AG - Santos, Brazil: Trams in reliable operation. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Estado autoriza publicação do edital de novo trecho do VLT em Santos. Governo do Estado de São Paulo, March 26, 2018, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Integração VLT. EMTU-SP, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Bilhetes e Cartões. EMTU-SP, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ VLT entre Santos e São Vicente deve ficar pronto em 12 meses. Assembleia Legislativa do Estado de São Paulo, May 23, 2013, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Primeira composição do VLT chega na Baixada Santista. In: Diário do Litoral. May 22, 2014, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ João Paulo de Castro: Alckmin inaugura primeiras estações do VLT em São Vicente, SP. In: G1. June 6, 2014, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ VLT passa por primeiro teste com viagem por ruas de São Vicente, SP. In: G1. August 30, 2014, Retrieved September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ^ Renato Lobo: VLT da Baixada Santista inicia operação assistida. In: Via Trolebus. November 19, 2014, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ VLT terá horário de funcionamento ampliado a partir de domingo. In: G1. April 26, 2017, Retrieved September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ VLT da Baixada Santista tem CCO inaugurado. In: Diário do Transporte. June 15, 2016, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Estudo vai definir segundo trecho do VLT em Santos. In: A Tribuna. May 11, 2017, Retrieved September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Nova versão do edital de obras do VLT mantém trajeto, estações e prazos. In: G1. July 13, 2018, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ sessão pública sobre 2º trecho do VLT é Adiada pela quinta vez seguida. In: G1. January 31, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ^ A b Eduardo Brandão: Obra em ponte de São Vicente estimulará VLT. In: A Tribuna. December 25, 2017, Retrieved September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Prefeitura de Cubatão pleiteia extensão do VLT na Cidade. In: A Tribuna. June 4, 2017, Retrieved September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Antônio Marcos: Extensão do VLT pode beneficiar quase 3 milhões de pessoas em Praia Grande e Litoral Sul. In: A Tribuna. March 3, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).