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MOVIA
MOVIA metros – flexible solutions for growing cities
As a leading metro solutions provider, we’re shaping the future of mass transit and daily commutes. Our high-tech, highly efficient MOVIA metros deliver rapid, reliable and cost-effective transport solutions around the globe.
Congestion, budget constraints, and connectivity are major challenges facing growing cities today. Metros are one of the most efficient means of moving high volumes of people safely, conveniently and cost-effectively to their destinations.
From London to Delhi, New York to Shanghai, MOVIA metros move more than seven billion passengers every year. MOVIA metros are renowned over the world for their operational reliability, appealing design and enhanced safety features – everything that makes a metro an attractive mode of transport.
As part of a new or existing network, fully automated or with a driver, the MOVIA metro family’s modular approach ensures the right solution for each customer.
- Bombardier has delivered its MOVIA metro solution to more than 40 cities worldwide, representing some 4,700 cars.
- 775 MOVIA metro vehicles to San Francisco
- 300 MOVIA metro vehicles to New York
- 1,771 MOVIA metro vehicles to London Underground
- 276 fully automated MOVIA metro vehicles for the Singapore Downtown Line
- 776 MOVIA metro vehicles for the Delhi Metro
Best cost per passenger transported
Optimized for the lifecycle costs of the product, with a fully integrated system design and minimized civil cost impact.
High flexibility and scalability
The flexible design of the train allows for increased passenger volumes in the future. Configurations range from two to 12 cars, carrying 800 to 5,000 passengers per train.
Customizable exterior design and interior layouts ensure operators can showcase their brands.
Proven technology
Our selection of standardized systems and components enhances all aspects of performance, from shorter lead times to high availability and low operating costs.
Maximum reliability and easy maintenance
Each component ensures maximum reliability and ease of maintenance throughout the lifetime of the train, with:
- Low energy consumption
- Optimized performance
- Up to 95 per cent recyclability
Driving mobility in growing cities
MOVIA metros fully integrate Bombardier’s proven sub-systems to maximize performance, including low weight, FLEXX Metro bogies which provide low lifecycle costs, and CITYFLO 650 technology, providing track to train communication via state-of-the-art wireless technology.
The metros can move 120,000 passengers per hour, per direction. Passenger flow is optimized through wide door openings (up to 1.6 m), with up to eight doors per car. For increased passenger safety, the metros feature end detrainment doors for rapid evacuation from train to track.
Comfort and capacity
The spacious interiors of MOVIA metro cars can be customized to reflect capacity needs and design preferences.
LED lights automatically dim and brighten in response to external conditions, and air conditioning is regulated according to passenger loading requirements.
Features such as infotainment screens, Wi-Fi and CCTV ensure passenger convenience and safety. In addition, cars are fitted with noise insulation for a relaxing journey.
Comfort and capacity
The spacious interiors of MOVIA metro cars can be customized to reflect capacity needs and design preferences.
LED lights automatically dim and brighten in response to external conditions, and air conditioning is regulated according to passenger loading requirements.
Features such as infotainment screens, Wi-Fi and CCTV ensure passenger convenience and safety. In addition, cars are fitted with noise insulation for a relaxing journey.
Designed with customers in mind
The height and width of the carbody is scalable to each customer’s needs. Constructed from stainless steel or aluminium, the weight-optimized carbody is based on a modular approach which enables a shorter manufacturing time.
Passenger door width ranges from 1.4 m to 1.6 m, for accessibility and smooth passenger flow.
In addition, the end cab module is customizable. Customers can choose from driver or driverless cabs and select from various design elements.
Designed with customers in mind
The height and width of the carbody is scalable to each customer’s needs. Constructed from stainless steel or aluminium, the weight-optimized carbody is based on a modular approach which enables a shorter manufacturing time.
Passenger door width ranges from 1.4 m to 1.6 m, for accessibility and smooth passenger flow.
In addition, the end cab module is customizable. Customers can choose from driver or driverless cabs and select from various design elements.
MOVIA metro – Singapore Downtown Line
The Bombardier MOVIA metro vehicles for the Singapore Downtown Line (DTL) can operate under a fully automated mode and have high capacity aluminium carbodies developed from a standardized platform, ensuring a high degree of reliability, safety and low lifecycle cost. The vehicles are environmentally-friendly, using the latest propulsion technology with low energy consumption, and they are up to 90 per cent recyclable.
The new fleet of 264 fully automated MOVIA metro cars run underground on the world’s longest driverless mass rapid transit line, spanning over 42 km. The DTL has a daily ridership of around 500,000, thus further enhancing commuter mobility, and helping to promote a greener mode of transportation for Singapore.
- Over 246 cars delivered
- 90 per cent recyclable
- Maximum speed of 90 km/h
MOVIA metro – Delhi, India
In June 2007, Bombardier was awarded a contract by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (DMRC) to supply 340 MOVIA metro cars in 4, 6 and 8-car trainset configuration for operation on the extended Delhi Metro network. In March 2008 and July 2010, DMRC exercised the options for an additional 84 and 114 MOVIA metro cars. In 2011, another 76 cars were ordered, bringing the total number of metro cars ordered to 614.
High capacity MOVIA vehicles reduce the daily travel time for around four million passengers, alleviating the heavy traffic congestion and pollution caused by more than one million cars that commute in New Delhi every day. The trains provided effective public transport during the 2010 Commonwealth Games that were held in New Delhi, home to almost 16 million people.
- MOVIA metros were a cornerstone of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi
- Maximum speed of 85 km/h
MOVIA metro – Stockholm, Sweden
The Stockholm Public Transport Authority (Storstockholms Lokaltrafik – SL) ordered 384 new MOVIA metro cars in 2013 as part of their investment in sustainable transport for the growing city of Stockholm. The vehicles were ordered for the Red Line upgrade.
Compared to the previous generation, also designed by Bombardier, the new metros feature additional bi-parting doors for faster entry and exit, and a mixed, four-by-four seating configuration with additional seats along the vehicle’s sides to optimize comfort, capacity and passenger flow, while meeting the highest environmental standards. Much attention has been given to the reliability, availability, maintainability and lifecycle cost performance of the new trains.
- Over 384 cars ordered
- Highest environmental standards regarding energy consumption and choice of materials, which are 98 percent recyclable
- Maximum speed of 90 km/h
MOVIA metro (formerly INNOVIA metro 300) – Vancouver, Canada
Bombardier delivered 28 MOVIA metro (formerly known as INNOVIA metro 300) trains to increase capacity on the Vancouver SkyTrain network. Bombardier was the turnkey supplier of the original fully automated metro system for the City of Vancouver in December 1985. When it first opened, the SkyTrain system (known now as Expo Line) was 21.4 km long and connected 15 stations.
Later, Bombardier also supplied the 20 km turnkey Millennium Line system, which entered service in 2002. The Vancouver SkyTrain network currently carries more than 80 million passengers per year and is the longest driverless metro system in North America.
- Delivered in 2015
- The additional INNOVIA metro 300 trains were ordered to meet increasing passenger demand on the existing lines and support the operation on the Evergreen Line
- INNOVIA metro 300 trains are used at 26 stations and run over 41.3 km
MOVIA metro – London, United Kingdom
Bombardier was the turnkey supplier for London Underground’s Victoria Line upgrade project. Bombardier delivered an entirely new signalling system overlaid on existing infrastructure, a control centre for the line and new MOVIA metro vehicles. This powerful combination of new trains and an upgraded signalling system has significantly improved journey times and enabled London Underground to provide a more frequent, reliable and comfortable service for its customers.
Bombardier’s scope included the design, build and supply of the trains, project management, system engineering and integration, testing and commissioning, training and manuals, signalling and automatic train control, as well as a technical support and spares supply agreement.
- 47 eight-car MOVIA metro trains serving 16 existing stations
- Designed to carry 42,372 passengers per hour, per direction during peak hours
- The complete system was delivered in time for the London 2012 Summer Games
