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The S200, designated as an LRV4 by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni), is a high-floor LRV manufactured by Siemens Mobility in Florin, Calif. The S200 succeeds the SD-100, SD-160, SD-400 and SD-460 as the high-floor version of Siemens LRVs for North America, and is being manufactured and marketed with the low-floor S700.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has selected WSP–PGH Wong Joint Venture (JV) to provide program management support for the Muni Metro system Train Control Upgrade Project (TCUP), a new communications-based train control (CBTC) system for the agency’s 71-mile light rail network.
CBTC technology will enhance the original SelTrac™ ATCS CBTC system in Muni’s subway, which Alcatel (then Thales, now Hitachi Rail) installed in 1998, and extend it to surface-running Metro service. Network-wide CBTC is expected to reduce travel and station wait times, expanding Muni Metro’s capacity by up to 20% and promoting “reliability, efficiency and safety with fewer system failures,” the JV noted.
The JV’s scope of services includes supporting program management; design engineering compliance and construction, including systems engineering and integration, testing and commissioning; and post-delivery maintenance support. Hitachi Rail GTS USA will supply the CBTC system for the project’s nine-year design and delivery schedule, with the new system projected to enter service between 2028 and 2034.
TCUP involves new onboard train control equipment on SFMTA light rail vehicles, which may also include San Francisco’s heritage vehicles like this PCC car in Pacific Electric livery on the F Market & Wharves line.
“WSP, combining its engineering, advisory and science-based expertise to shape communities, has partnered with engineering and architecture consulting firm and local systems powerhouse PGH Wong to provide consulting services for the life of the project, from initiation to post-delivery support,” the JV said. “WSP has undertaken more than 60 advanced signaling projects worldwide. PGH Wong, headquartered in San Francisco, has led signaling projects including the CBTC AirTrain System at the San Francisco International Airport. Together, WSP and PGH Wong have a long history of project deliveries with the SFMTA. With San Francisco’s technologically complex transit environment, this combined global and local experience is fundamental to the supplier/stakeholder coordination the JV will oversee.”
SFMTA
“The Train Control Upgrade Project (access this link for greater technical detail) represents a five-generation leap forward in the technology we use to manage Muni Metro service,” said SFMTA TCUP Project Manager Dan Howard. “I’m especially proud of how intentionally we’re working to better manage risk to a degree we’ve never done before. Our partnership with WSP-PGH Wong Joint Venture will add the JV’s vital modern train control knowledge to help us see through blind spots and navigate challenges.”
Additionally, throughout the project, the WSP-PGH Wong JV will help SFMTA enhance its organizational capacity to manage the new CBTC system. “The success of a project is measured not just by the technology that’s deployed, but by the talent that’s created,” said project manager WSP Senior Vice President Transit and Rail Engineering Siv Bhamra.
SFMTA
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