Bombardier Transportation, together with two consortium partners, announced that it has won an order to design, supply and install a 24 kilometer Bombardier Innovia Monorail 300 system in Sao Paulo for Companhia do Metropolitano de Sao Paulo. The total value of the contract is BRL 2.46 billion. Bombardier's share of the design build contract is BRL 1.40 billion.
The new line, known as Expresso Tiradentes, will serve as an extension of the Sao Paulo Metro Line 2 and will have the capacity to transport 40,000 passengers per hour per direction between the Vila Prudente and Cidade Tiradentes urbanizations.
This journey currently takes almost two hours and the new INNOVIA Monorail system will reduce the journey time to approximately 50 minutes, benefiting 500,000 users daily. Phase 1 the system is expected to open for passenger services by 2014.
Mr Rajeev Jyoti president & MD of Bombardier Transportation in India said that "We see a lot of interest from cities in India such as Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai for this type of highly innovative technology as it enables to reach high transport capacity with a system costing approximately half the price and half the time to build than a subway metro, it is ideal for certain corridors feeders of the city's main Metro system, a swift solution to solve mobility problems of fast growing cities. We at Bombardier are looking forward to supply this product also here in India, in addition to our advanced and successful Movia metro cars for heavy metro applications."
The Express Monotrilho Leste Consortium is lead by the Brazilian civil contractor Queiroz Galvao and incorporates construction firm Construtora OAS and Bombardier as an Electrical and Mechanical equipment supplier.
Bombardier will design and supply system wide E&M elements for the 24 kilometers, 17 station Innovia Monorail 300 system, including 54 seven car trains with Bombardier Cityflo 650 automatic train control technology for driverless operation as well as providing project management, systems engineering and integration, testing and commissioning for the new trains and signaling.
Mr Andre Navarri president & COO of Bombardier Transportation said that "To be selected by Sao Paulo Metro as the Monorail system supplier is a great privilege. The introduction of our Innovia Monorail 300 system to this great city will increase mobility for citizens, reduce congestion, and benefit the local economy as well as the environment. In addition, with its attractive aerodynamic design, the Innovia Monorail is set to become an iconic image on the Sao Paulo skyline."
Bombardier brings to Sao Paulo the most extensive transit system experience in the industry and has previously supplied four other fully automated Monorail systems (Tampa, Newark, Jacksonville and Las Vegas in the United States). Bombardier is currently supplying the Innovia Monorail 300 system to Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the prestigious new King Abdullah Financial District.
