Rio de Janeiro tram
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| Basic information | |
| Country | Brazil |
| city | Rio de Janeiro |
| opening | 5th June 2016 |
| operator | VLT Carioca SA |
| Infrastructure | |
| Route length | 28 km |
| Gauge | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Power system | APS , 750 V DC |
| business | |
| Lines | 3 |
| Clock in the peak hours | 3 min |
| Clock in the SVZ | 15 minutes |
| vehicles | Alstom Citadis |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | 58,000 passengers / day |
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The tram Rio de Janeiro , in Portuguese VLT Carioca for “Veículo Leve sobre Trilhos” (Light Rail Vehicle), is a tram network opened in 2016 in the center and port area of the city of Rio de Janeiro . The tram is primarily used as a connection between all local public transport ( metro , suburban trains , ships, cable car) as well as the inner-city airport Santos Dumont , the central train station Central and the cruise ship terminal.
The construction of the tram network was part of a revitalization plan for the center of Rio de Janeiro, which gained momentum as part of the bid for the 2016 Olympic Games in the city. The tram replaced, among other things, the elevated motorway (" Elevado da Perimetral ") and runs through the pedestrian zone Orla Conde on Guanabara Bay .
The tram network currently consists of three lines with 29 stops. All tram routes used for passenger transport do not have overhead lines, the 32 Alstom Citadis trains use battery charges or a third power rail embedded between the two rails.
Line network
The Rio de Janeiro tram network consists of three lines. Of these, the first two lines accounted for 26 stops, with ten stops being served only in one direction due to single-track sections.
| line | Line route |
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| 1 | Way there: Praia Formosa - Rodoviária - Equador - Pereira Reis - Gamboa - Providência - Harmonia - Parada dos Navios - Parada dos Museus - São Bento - Candelária - Sete de Setembro - Carioca - Cinelândia - Antônio Carlos - Santos Dumont |
| Way back: Santos Dumont - Antônio Carlos - Cinelândia - Carioca - Sete de Setembro - Candelária - São Bento - Parada dos Museus - Parada dos Navios - Utopia AquaRio - Cidade de Samba - Santo Cristo - Cordeiro de Graça - Rodoviária - Praia Formosa | |
| 2 | Way there: Praia Formosa - Rodoviária - Equador - Pereira Reis - Vila Olímpica - Central do Brasil - Saara - Praça Tiradentes - Rio Branco - Praça XV |
| Way back: Praça XV - Rio Branco - Praça Tiradentes - Saara - Central do Brasil - Gamboa - Santo Cristo - Cordeiro de Graça - Rodoviária - Praia Formosa | |
| 3 | Cross connection between lines 1 and 2 with the Itamaraty, Camerino and Santa Rita stops |
business
Tickets
Tickets for using the tram can be bought or topped up at all stops. The tram is part of the Rio de Janeiro ticket system (Bilhete Único Carioca) . The credit cards for the city buses, the Bus Express System ( BRT ), the subway ( Metrô ), the suburban trains ( SuperVia ) and the ferries can therefore also be used in the trams. The prepaid cards of the state of Rio de Janeiro (Bilhete Único Intermunicipal) and the RioCard can also be used. The validation (debiting) takes place via machines within the trains, the operator's ticket inspectors regularly check the passengers.
You can change between the tram lines free of charge. Single journeys only include outward journeys and not return journeys.
Stops
The tram trains stop at permanently installed stops with side or central platforms. The majority of the stops are open stopping points without access controls and are equipped with ramps, dynamic destination displays and ticket machines. A few stops with a high number of passengers (Praça XV, Central and Rodoviária) are closed stops with access control using barriers.
At major events, open stops can also be temporarily equipped with access barriers. This happened at the Parada dos Navios stop during the 2016 Olympic Games and the Parada dos Museus stop during the 2017 Carnival.
Timetable
The trains of the tram system run daily between 6:00 a.m. and 12:00 a.m. with intervals between 7 and 15 minutes, depending on the time of day and the route. At stops with two lines, the frequency is reduced to 3 minutes. Between 8 p.m. and midnight, line 2 only runs between the Central and Praça XV stops .
Trains
For the tram system, the operator ordered 32 Alstom Citadis 402 trains from the French vehicle manufacturer Alstom . The Alstom Citadis 402 are seven-part, bidirectional, low-floor trains. The trains are 44 meters long, 2.65 meters wide and 3.82 meters high and have eight doors on each side. All trains are equipped with air conditioning and 28 ticket validators. Up to 420 passengers can travel in one train.
Although the trains have classic pantographs on the roof, electricity is fed into the entire network via a third conductor rail embedded in the floor, a system developed by Alstom called " Alimentation Par Sol ". On some sections, especially in the area of large crossings, the third rail is not electrified, so that the trains use an internal battery that is charged by regenerative braking. The trains only used their pantographs in the area of the depot. A similar, overhead line-free system was first used on sections of the Bordeaux tram, which opened in 2003, and is now also in use in other cities ( Reims , Orléans , Tours , Dubai etc.).
The trains are numbered 101 to 132 and bear the names of personalities from the city of Rio de Janeiro. The first five trains was in the Alstom factory in La Rochelle produced in France, the 27 remaining in Taubaté in São Paulo state .
The trains are equipped with audiovisual systems that inform passengers in Portuguese and English about the next stop. The journalist Christiana Araripe spoke the announcements. The jingles and melodies were produced by Zanna Sound, who was also responsible for the sound production for the Metrô in Rio de Janeiro.
operator
The owner of the tram network is the city of Rio de Janeiro, which in turn has awarded a 25-year concession - 2013 to 2038 - to the Brazilian-international operator consortium VLT Carioca SA . The consortium consists of four Brazilian companies and two foreign companies:
- Invepar, the concessionaire for the Rio de Janeiro Metro, the TransOlímpica express bus system and the Linha Amarela motorway (stake 24.9317%)
- Odebrecht TransPort , concessionaire for SuperVia suburban rail traffic and co-concessionaire for Rio de Janeiro-Antônio Carlos Jobim airport (stake 24.9317%)
- CCR, operator of the ferry service Rio de Janeiro – Niterói and co-concessionaire of the express bus system TransOlímpica (share 24.9317%)
- RioPar, operator of two bus terminals in the center of Rio de Janeiro and the RioCard ticket system (share 24.9317%)
- Benito Roggio Transport , operator of the Subte of Buenos Aires , via Metrovías (share 0.2506%)
- RATP ; Urban transport operator in Paris (share 0.0226%)
history
Tendering process
As part of the renovation of the Rio de Janeiro port area in preparation for the Olympic Games - known under the name " Porto Maravilha " - the city administration (Prefeitura) also planned to build a new means of transport as a link between the various modes of transport already available in the city. Likewise, the chance of building a tram should be used to change the routing of numerous streets or to reduce car traffic. The city administration started the tendering process on July 9, 2012 with an expression of interest. The tender for the construction, operation and maintenance of the new means of transport began on April 30, 2013. A consortium (see section "Operators") made up of Invepar, Odebrecht Transport, CCR, Rio, Benito Roggio Transporte and RATP won the competition.
The first preparatory work began by the concessionaire of the port area in 2012. Among other things, he reopened the Túnel da Marítima , which was built during the time of the Brazilian Empire , began with the construction of the Túnel Nina Rabha and the demolition of the formative elevated motorway Elevado da Perimetral .
construction
The actual construction work for the new tram system began in September 2014 in the Santo Cristo district and continued for the entire route of lines 1 and 2 until April 2015. At the same time, the city council opened the renewed port promenade Ola Conde and converted part of Avenida Rio Branco into a pedestrian zone. Just one year after the start of construction, in October 2015, the operator carried out the first test drives on a section of Line 1 between the Rodoviária and Praça Mauá stops . At the beginning of 2016, the test drives were extended to Cinelândia . The first test drives on the section of Line 2 began in the second half of 2016.
The construction of the new tram system cost 1557 million reais (about 400 million euros). Of the construction costs, the Brazilian federal government bore around 525 million reais, a third of the construction costs, as part of the federal program “Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento da Mobilidade” (economic stimulus program for mobility). Another 632 million reais was funded through a public-private partnership (PPP).
opening
The opening of the new tram system called VLT Carioca took place on June 5, 2016 after a construction period of around 18 months between the Santos Dumont and Parada dos Museus stops . The city administration and the operator gradually opened the remaining sections of the route until December 2017. Initially, however, the tram only ran in public, free test operations from Monday to Friday, from 12 noon to 3 p.m., every 20 minutes. The operator gradually extended the operating hours, already at the end of June 2016 the trams were running between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays, and from July 2016 also on weekends. The public, free test operation on Line 2 began when it opened in February 2017.
- June 5, 2016: Santos Dumont – Parada dos Museus (Line 1)
- July 12, 2016: Extension of Parados dos Museus – Rodoviária (line 1)
- February 6, 2017: Opening of Praça XV – Saara (Line 2)
- June 4, 2017: Opening of the second Gamboa – Parada dos Navios track (line 1)
- October 21, 2017: Extension Saara – Rodoviária (Line 2)
- December 2, 2017: Extension Rodoviária – Praia Formosa (lines 1 + 2)
- October 26, 2019: Opening of line 3
To supplement the existing network, construction work began at the beginning of 2018 for a cross-section between lines 1 and 2 through Avenida Marechal Floriano in order to be able to offer a supplementary line 3 between Santos Dumont Airport and Central do Brasil train station . Structurally, the route was completed in May 2019, but the opening was postponed several times because the city and the operator were discussing subsidizing the overall system. The opening finally took place on October 26, 2019.
expansion
With the opening of lines 1, 2 and 3, the basic tram network of Rio de Janeiro has been completed.
The city of Rio de Janeiro is planning an extension along the coast towards, via Lapa to Marina da Glória . An extension to the west via Cidade Nova z Die around the São Cristóvão district is being considered. However, there are no detailed plans or times for the realization of this.
See also
- Santa Teresa tram in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro
Web links
- Official website of the operator (Portuguese)
- Comprehensive description of the plans for the tram network (PDF; 14.8 MB, Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rio's trams run for the Olympics - The International Light Rail Magazine . In: The International Light Rail Magazine . August 11, 2016 ( tautonline.com [accessed January 23, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Case Study: Rio Porto Maravilha - VLT Carioca. (PDF) Alstom, June 15, 2016, accessed on January 23, 2018 .
- ^ Claudia Sanches: Jornalista é a dona da voz do Veículo Leve sobre Trilhos. In: ABI. July 22, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ^ Transparência - VLT Carioca . In: VLT Carioca . ( vltrio.rio [accessed January 23, 2018]).
- ↑ Rio de Janeiro - A port facility as a culture and museum mile . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on January 23, 2018]).
- ↑ Consórcio com CCR e Invepar vence licitação para VLT no RJ | EXAME. Retrieved January 23, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ VLT: meta é tirar mais de 60% dos ônibus do Centro . In: O Globo . December 8, 2013 ( globo.com [accessed January 23, 2018]).
- ↑ VLT Inicia famous entre a Vila Olimpica eo Saara. Retrieved January 23, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Completando um ano de operação, VLT ganha duas estações . In: O Globo . June 5, 2017 ( globo.com [accessed January 23, 2018]).
- ↑ Prefeitura anuncia início the obras da Linha 3 do VLT no centro do Rio - Notícias - R7 Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved January 23, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ Diego Haidar: Linha 3 do VLT está pronta, mas nicht entrou em operação por falta de autorização da prefeitura do Rio. In: G1 (Globo). May 10, 2019, accessed August 29, 2019 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Prefeitura anuncia projeto para levar VLT à Zona Sul do Rio . In: O Globo . October 3, 2015 ( globo.com [accessed January 23, 2018]).