Tronchetto - Piazzale Roma Shuttle, Venice, Italy
Venice, Italy
Project Start Date: June 2006
Start of Operations: April 19, 2010
Key Features:
- System reduces pollution and enhances accessibility to Venice center
- 870 m (2,850 ft) long
- Connects parking facilities under construction on Tronchetto island with Piazalle Roma in the old town
- 3,000 passengers per hour per direction
- Single lane system with two trains running at 8 m/s (18 mph)
- Switch and bypass function
| Length |
870 m (2,850 ft) |
| Configuration |
Single track bypassed system (with two trains and two switches) |
| Operating Speed |
29 km/h (18 mph) |
| Headway |
190 seconds |
| Dwell Time |
30 seconds |
Guideway
|
Elevated steel truss piers/colums |
| System Capacity |
3,000 pphpd |
| Stations |
3 |
| Trains |
2 four-car trains |
| Train Capacity |
50 passengers per vehicle
200 passengers per train |
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