Hitachi driverless set
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The New Train of Toronto will be the upcoming sixth series of rapid transit rolling stock used on the Toronto subway system of Toronto, Ontario, Canada that will be used on the under construction Ontario Line. They were ordered by Infrastructure Ontario, after contract for rolling stock, signaling, operations and maintenance was awarded to the consortium in November 2022[1] They will be built by Hitachi Rail and operated by Transdev. The first batch will be delivered by 2031, with all trains expected to be in service in 2036. As of 2025, they have a cost of CA$9.00 billion.[2] The trains would include new automatic platform screen doors and wheelchair accessible seats including bike racks for E-bikes and scooters, the trains will be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission and Transdev, and will be fully automatic.
These vehicles will be painted in blue, to assume the color of the TTC line, and will use the TTC subway logo when being operated.
History
The design of the trains were awarded by the Rolling Stock, System and Operations Maintenance (RSSOM) in November 2022. During production, the current premier of Ontario, Doug Ford is announcing the Toronto Transit Commission to build the Ontario Line, a successor to the downtown Relief line that was part of the cancelled TransitCity plan, 50 new trainsets will be produced and installed to relieve overcrowding on most stations on Line 1 Yonge-University.[3] The 19.6 kilometer line would connect from Science Centre to Exhibition downtown west. New trains would be elevated, using the standard gauge railway like Metrolinx's Line 5 Eglinton and Line 6 Finch West. During production, new station names will be announced on the rapid transit line, with providing connections with Osgoode and Queen station, the latter will be renamed to Queen-Spadina.[4] Both the trainsets will be equipped with the use of platform screen doors similar to the ones that are used on Union Pearson Express, which opened in 2015.[5]
Community placements
For more information, visit Metrolinx.ca[6]
The Ontario Line will be able to deliver faster, more frequent service by using modern technology that has been adopted by subway systems around the world. All trains will be driverless, and provide automatic train control (ATC) to relieve a fatal accident on underground stations and tunnels if people are walking either in unstable area or dangerous places, like the ones used in Vancouver, London, Paris and Singapore. The set will be a future project for the TTC, to provide for passengers to board modern, faster 90 kilometer speeding automatic subway trains, in accordance with operations and maintenance agreements. This train is also for people with physical disabilities. Passenger information will be added to provide passengers with communications, CCTV cameras will be installed in all canopies on each car. These visuals will be added because of a accident where a woman fell onto a TTC subway track at St. George station in 2022.[7][8]
Management and storage facility
The new fleet with have Maintenance and Storage Facilities, where the vehicles are stored, the Operations Control Centre where staff control train operations and are connected to TTC and GO Transit systems and the Ontario Backup Operations Control Centre. Construction will began by demolishing a Islamic centre and a shopping mall that features Hamal goods and items from a generous culture, with a projected in-service date of 2031.
Service
Automatic trains will depart after 2 minutes and be equipped with automatic guide ways so that the facility will be used to carry passengers in a busy situation.
All trains will stop at each station when looking for a handful guide of partnering with the metal poles and decide on where the train closes it's doors and will be used to depart after 2 minutes.
As part of it's easily-constructed equipment, it will provide faster, more frequent and reliable access to rapid transit, and will carry with more than 227,500 people will live within a 10-minute walk of an Ontario Line station, with cellular service provided by Rogers located on one of the cars.[8] The trains with improve the quality of life for commuters by reducing daily travel time by 2040. These cars will be similar to the newer TR models and will be used prior to the Pan American 2028 Olympic Games. The Ontario Line will be both underground and elevated, along with the additional cost of adding automatic announcements and even a new accessibility menu. This would be the first future driverless train in Toronto.
Design
The trains are designed like modern Japanese trains with wider doors, automatic signalling, ATC equipment and new regenerative braking system. All trains are equipped with a cone shaped coupling that provides connection with freight rail when traveling on a box car.
The newly designed TTC rolling stock will include features such as the following:
- onboard Wi-Fi;
- digital passenger *information screens;
- wireless charging points;
- dedicated spaces for bicycles;
- double wheelchair areas;
- continuous, connected train cars;
- heating and cooling throughout;
- doors that will open in sync with platform edge doors;
- regenerative braking.
The equipment will be capable of a maximum speed of 80 kph (50 mph).[9] [10]
References
- ↑ "Trains and technology". Metrolinx.
- ↑ "Hitachi Rail will build, maintain, operate equipment for new Toronto subway line". Trains.com.
- ↑ "Ontario Line". Government of Ontario.ca. March 27, 2022.
- ↑ "Ontario Line - Overview". Metrolinx. November 22, 2022.
- ↑ "Hitachi Rail to deliver new Ontario Line trains, systems, maintenance and operations in $9B CAD deal" (PDF). Hitachi Ltd.
- ↑ "Ontario Line - Community". Metrolinx. November 22, 2022.
- ↑ "Ontario Line, Toronto – Rolling Stock, Systems, Operations and Maintenance (RSSOM)". Webuild Ontario.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Ontario Line - Rolling Stock, Systems, Operations and Maintenance". Infilstructure Ontario.
- ↑ "A look at the driverless trains that will run along the Ontario Line". CP24. March 14, 2023.
- ↑ "What were building trains and technology". Metrolinx. November 23, 2022.
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