23 January 2012
Thales has been awarded a contract by IHI Corporation to re-signal the automated people mover (APM) located within Hong Kong international airport, with a state-of-the-art solution.
Thales will supply its radio-based SelTrac CBTC system for the existing lines and for a planned extension to the Midfield Concourse, which will service a third runway. The CBTC technology will also be applied to both existing and new trains circulating on the line. The project completion is scheduled for 2014.
“IHI is confident that in our partnership with Thales, we can count on an excellent delivery of the project to the full satisfaction of our customer at the Hong Kong airport,” said Tsutomu Hoshii, General Manager of the IHI Transportation System Project Division.
This project expands Thales’ footprint in Hong Kong, following the successful delivery of four projects with Seltrac CBTC systems (West Rail line, Kowloon Southern Link, Disneyland Resort Line and Ma On Shan Rail Line) and implementation of ticketing systems for most lines of the MTR network. Thales was also recently awarded a contract to supply an Automatic Fare Collection and Security Access Management System for the West Island Line (WIL), South Island Line (SIL) and Kwun Tong Line Extension.
Since 1985, Thales’s CBTC system has been proven on 55 projects around the world and is now in service on over 1,200 km of track in major urban centres, carrying an estimated 3 billion passengers annually.