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The Type 9 LRV is a class of low-floor light rail vehicles manufactured by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) for the MBTA Green Line.The fleet of 24 Type 9 cars was ordered in 2014 for the Green Line Extension project, and the first cars began service in 2018.
The SLRV is a double-ended high-floor articulated light rail vehicle 71 ft (22 m) long overall (over the anticlimbers), in the same range as many heavy rail vehicles both at the time and now, but noticeably shorter than many other modern LRVs such as the at-minimum-81-foot (25 m) Siemens S70 and S700 commonly found today, which rides on three ...
The San Diego Trolley, the most heavily used light rail system in the United States.. Light rail is a mode of rail-based transport, usually urban in nature.. Light-rail systems are typically designed to carry fewer passengers than heavy-rail systems like commuter rail or rapid transit (subway).
In December 2016 OCTA released a request for proposals for the manufacturing and delivery of the light rail vehicles. [29] Construction is planned to start in 2018, and revenue service was expected to begin in 2020. [4] In March 2018, OCTA placed an order for 8 S70 vehicles (later rebranded as S700 by Siemens), [a] at a cost of $51.5 million. [30]
By contrast, light rail vehicles can travel in multi-car trains carrying a theoretical ridership up to 20,000 passengers per hour in much narrower rights-of-way, not much more than two car lanes wide for a double track system. [56] They can often be run through existing city streets and parks, or placed in the medians of roads.
The first low-floor light rail vehicle was delivered in 1996 [34] and first used in service on August 31, 1997. [33] The new vehicles also came equipped with air-conditioning, a feature originally lacking from the Type 1 vehicles. [31] The initial order of 39 Type 2 vehicles was expanded, in stages, to a total of 52 vehicles. [35]
All of the concepts proposed a longer vehicle than the current Type 8/9 cars, with lengths ranging from 100 to 131 ft (30 to 40 m). The MBTA's final concept for the new cars was a 114-foot (35 m) articulated low-floor light rail vehicle made up of 7 segments, riding on 4 trucks, and equipped with 5 sliding doors on each side. [5]: 30–35
Modern light rail technology has primarily German origins, since an attempt by Boeing Vertol to introduce a new American light rail vehicle was a technical failure. The renaissance of light rail in North American began in 1978 when the Canadian city of Edmonton , Alberta adopted the German Siemens-Duewag U2 system, followed three years later by ...