A new more than 300 km/h speed train to be developed
Bombardier Transportation and AnsaldoBreda, Finmeccanica’s subsidiary for the railway sector, announced yesterday their signature of an agreement to jointly develop, bid and manufacture a new high speed train capable of travelling at more than 300 km/h and which eliminates the shortcomings of existing concepts. Important aspects such as improved operating efficiency and safety, enhanced seating capacity and compliance with European interoperability standards will be addressed. This will be possible by applying the leading technologies recently developed by Bombardier Transportation and Ansaldo Breda for the global high-speed rail sector.
As the leading supplier of passenger rail equipment and services worldwide, Bombardier has accumulated 20 years of experience in the high-speed sector and has participated in the delivery of almost 700 trains and vehicles for high-speed and very high-speed applications worldwide.
Bombardier has been a key player in the delivery of almost all very high-speed trains operating today in Europe, including the ICE family of trains in Germany, the ETR500 in Italy, the AVE S-102 in Spain and four different series of TGV in France. This experience has recently culminated in its evolutionary in-house development, known as Bombardier ZEFIRO
high-speed technology. Utilising service-proven systems and components from some of the most successful high-speed trains in Europe and China, including the optimum in carbody, bogies, propulsion and pantograph equipment, the ZEFIRO technology allows to create tailor-made solutions for individual customer requirements’ to ensure their commercial success. ZEFIRO technology was recently incorporated within a contract in China for the delivery of 20 EMU sleeper trainsets, awarded in October 2007.
A global player in the railway transportation and mass transit sectors, AnsaldoBreda has particular experience in high-speed rail demonstrated by the delivery of the multi system ETR500 train to the Italian railways. AnsaldoBreda is currently delivering its new V250 high-speed train to the Netherlands and Belgium railways for operation on the Amsterdam-Brussels airports route. Built with highly proven systems, such as the propulsion and the signalling systems, the V250 high speed train is known for its superior performance and compliance with European interoperability standards (TSI).
AnsaldoBreda is the Finmeccanica’s specialist in the manufacture of technologically advanced rolling stock for railway and urban transit systems that represents the state of the art under both the mechanical and the electrical aspects. AnsaldoBreda builds complete trains, high-speed trains, diesel and electrical locomotives, double-decker electric trains, Electric Multiple Unit (EMU), Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU), single and doubledecker passenger cars, subway cars and Sirio trams.