Trenitalia awards contract for 50 high speed trains
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Trenitalia awards contract for 50 high speed trains
05 August 2010
ITALY: Trenitalia has selected a joint bid from Bombardier Transportation and AnsaldoBreda for a contract to supply 50 high speed trainsets.
The board met on August 5 to approve the order, which should see a prototype completed within 300 days and entry into service by 2013.
As well as getting a higher technical score than Alstom's rival submission, the joint bid came in cheaper at €30·8m rather than €35m per eight-car trainset.
'A good race ended with high scores by both competitors', said FS Group Chief executive Mauro Moretti, who has been critical of the quality of trains delivered in Italy in recent years (RG 7.10 p66). He added that the order was an important milestone. 'This shows that there are various ways to buy trains: go to the dealer and buy sight unseen, or, as we did, strongly support innovation.'
Derived from Bombardier's Zefiro platform as supplied to China but heavily adapted to meet European TSIs, the 200 m long non-articulated trains will have distributed traction and be suitable for running at up to 400 km/h, although the planned maximum speed in revenue service will be 360 km/h.
They will have space for 600 passengers and be suitable for working across borders; Moretti says Trenitalia is looking towards 'the German block, the French block, and also Great Britain and Spain.'
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/sing ... rains.html
Following the disclosure of both technical and economic evaluations last Monday, Trenitalia announced today the winner of the competition for the supply of 50 new Very High Speed train sets for the Italian HSL.
Italian AnsaldoBreda and Canadian Bombardier will design and build the new V300 Zefiro, first application in Europe of the VHST train designed by Bombardier, currently used in China.
Innovative design and solutions will let this train operate at a top speed of 360 km/h on the existing Italian HSL.
For sure, we will not see any odd train like the concept shown by Trenitalia itself some time ago. The train exteriors will be much more likely the standard one we are used to on other similar trains, as the picture shows (courtesy of AnsaldoBreda site)
V300 Zefiro beat the new non-articulated high speed train offered by Alstom, presented during last edition of EXPO Ferroviaria in Torino and improving the current offer of trains for the segment VHST.
It is supposed it will operate not only in Italy but also on the European network covering France, Spain, Germany and the Belgium-Netherlands network up to UK, possibly.
Briefly, AnsaldoBreda/Bombardier offer gained 56,533/70 and 28,88/30 points on technical and economic evaluations while Alstom 50,759/70 and 28,61/30 points respectively. Kawasaki and Siemens didn’t present any offer for the tender worth 1,2b€.
http://www.railway20.net/2010/08/50-v30 ... confirmed/
Ik vraag me af waarom Bombardier samenwerkt met AnsaldoBreda, weet iemand waarom? (want tenslotte geven ze zo technische details aan de concurrent).
05 August 2010
ITALY: Trenitalia has selected a joint bid from Bombardier Transportation and AnsaldoBreda for a contract to supply 50 high speed trainsets.
The board met on August 5 to approve the order, which should see a prototype completed within 300 days and entry into service by 2013.
As well as getting a higher technical score than Alstom's rival submission, the joint bid came in cheaper at €30·8m rather than €35m per eight-car trainset.
'A good race ended with high scores by both competitors', said FS Group Chief executive Mauro Moretti, who has been critical of the quality of trains delivered in Italy in recent years (RG 7.10 p66). He added that the order was an important milestone. 'This shows that there are various ways to buy trains: go to the dealer and buy sight unseen, or, as we did, strongly support innovation.'
Derived from Bombardier's Zefiro platform as supplied to China but heavily adapted to meet European TSIs, the 200 m long non-articulated trains will have distributed traction and be suitable for running at up to 400 km/h, although the planned maximum speed in revenue service will be 360 km/h.
They will have space for 600 passengers and be suitable for working across borders; Moretti says Trenitalia is looking towards 'the German block, the French block, and also Great Britain and Spain.'
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/sing ... rains.html
Following the disclosure of both technical and economic evaluations last Monday, Trenitalia announced today the winner of the competition for the supply of 50 new Very High Speed train sets for the Italian HSL.
Italian AnsaldoBreda and Canadian Bombardier will design and build the new V300 Zefiro, first application in Europe of the VHST train designed by Bombardier, currently used in China.
Innovative design and solutions will let this train operate at a top speed of 360 km/h on the existing Italian HSL.
For sure, we will not see any odd train like the concept shown by Trenitalia itself some time ago. The train exteriors will be much more likely the standard one we are used to on other similar trains, as the picture shows (courtesy of AnsaldoBreda site)
V300 Zefiro beat the new non-articulated high speed train offered by Alstom, presented during last edition of EXPO Ferroviaria in Torino and improving the current offer of trains for the segment VHST.
It is supposed it will operate not only in Italy but also on the European network covering France, Spain, Germany and the Belgium-Netherlands network up to UK, possibly.
Briefly, AnsaldoBreda/Bombardier offer gained 56,533/70 and 28,88/30 points on technical and economic evaluations while Alstom 50,759/70 and 28,61/30 points respectively. Kawasaki and Siemens didn’t present any offer for the tender worth 1,2b€.
http://www.railway20.net/2010/08/50-v30 ... confirmed/
Ik vraag me af waarom Bombardier samenwerkt met AnsaldoBreda, weet iemand waarom? (want tenslotte geven ze zo technische details aan de concurrent).
