Saturday 31 March 2012

Bombardier Named Systems Supplier of the Year

Bombardier Transportation has received the prestigious award for System Supplier of the Year at the 2012 Revista Ferroviaria Awards, held in São Paulo, Brazil. Jurandir Fernandes, São Paulo Secretary of State for Transport, presented the accolade to Bombardier Transportation Brazil executives André Guyvarch, President, André Richez, Head of Rail Control Solutions and Eduardo Saccaro, Director Systems.

Bombardier has won the award for its game changing INNOVIA Monorail 300 system, delivered with the CITYFLO 650 automatic train control solution. Cost effective to introduce without requiring major infrastructure or civil works, it offers transport capacity up to 48,000 passengers per hour per direction. In consortium with the Brazilian civil contractors Queiroz Galvão and OAS, Bombardier will design, supply and install a 24 km, 17 station INNOVIA Monorail 300 system, with the CITYFLO 650 communications-based train control (CBTC) technology that enables short 75 second headways between trains.



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