Alstom has been confirmed as supplier of Switzerland's Lausanne automatic metro, for a total amount of approximately 135 million euros.

This follows a majority vote last November when the Lausanne metro project was approved by 62 per cent of Switzerland's Vaud Canton electors.
Alstom was chosen as preferred bidder for the supply of the rolling stock in 1999 and for the supply of the train control system in 2000.
This new automatic rubber-tyred metro, similar to the one operating on Paris's Meteor line, will link Ouchy, in the south of Lausanne, to the district of Epalinges in the north. The 6-km line is due to enter commercial operation at the end of 2007.
Within the scope of this project, Alstom will supply:
m The rolling stock, comprising 15 two-car trainsets.
m The UrbalisTM train control system, which will be applied in its most advanced version. The metro system will therefore be fully automated, enabling the trains to run automatically without drivers.
m The power system.
m The track system.
Michel Moreau, President of Alstom's Transport Sector, said : "The Lausanne project is Alstom's third major reference in the promising driverless metro market, after two lines in Singapore. This new success will be a technological showcase for Alstom, mainly because the of the nature of the metro line, which involves line gradients of up to 12 per cent at 60km/h."
This latest order strengthens the company's growing market share in the urban transport market. Earlier this year Alstom announced that it had been chosen for the supply of rolling stock for the New York and Washington metros, Santiago metro Line 4 and Caracas.
The company has already equipped the metro systems of 50 cities, including Paris, Mexico City, Medellin, Sao Paulo, Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. m

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