Siemens will deliver 22 metro trains to Bangkok

Siemens will deliver 22 metro trains to Bangkok: Bangkok Public Transport Systems Utilities Company, Siemens and public transportation vehicle manufacturer for the purchase of 22 four-car metro cars Bozankaya consortium.
Siemens will also undertake the service and maintenance of 16 vehicles throughout the year. Trains, Bozankayawill be produced at Ankara's factory in Ankara. Siemens will carry out project management, development, construction and commissioning as well as bogie, drive and braking systems and auxiliary systems within the scope of the project. While the first subway trains are planned to be delivered in 2018, the project is expected to be completed in the next year. The trains will operate on the Green Line additional lines with the current BTS (Skytrain) system.
“We have had a successful cooperation with BTSC for many years,” said Siemens Transportation CEO Jochen Eickholt. With new trains, we will continue our success story in Bangkok. We anticipate that specially designed high-capacity trains will provide the transportation of more than one million passengers a day. ”
Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is considered one of the most important economic centers in the entire Asia-Pacific region. Bangkok Metropolitan Area, where approximately 20 million people live, is considered the center of the country. The population of the region is constantly growing, and the World Bank estimates that around 21 percent of the country's population in mid-60st century will live in or around Bangkok. This means that 10 million more people are settled in the region than they are today. The Bangkok administration faces a challenging task, such as safe transportation of city dwellers. To overcome these difficulties, city and transportation planners prepared a zoning plan in 1994. This plan developed the Bangkok Public Transport Development Plan, covering more than a dozen new subways and light rail lines. Thanks to the prepared plan, it is aimed to increase the utilization rate of the public transportation system, which is 40 percent today, to 2021 percent by 60. This ambitious target requires that the city's public transport rail systems be expanded regularly.
Siemens Transportation Department designed and implemented the first three of the high capacity public transport rail systems that will allow the system to be installed in Bangkok to be expanded in the coming years. The 1999 km long BTS (Bangkok Public Transport System) Skytrain elevated train system, commissioned by Siemens in 23, has managed to greatly reduce car use as the first rapid transportation system in the Thai metropolis. The system was later extended for 13 km. The two ongoing projects will extend the system by 32 km; One of these projects will increase the rail system line to 7 km in total with 13 stations and 16 km to the south of Sukhumvit Line and 19 stations to the north of Sukhumvit Line and 68 km. The project to extend the southern line between Bearing and Samut Prakan is planned to be completed by the end of 2018. The northern plug-in between Mo Chit and Khu Khot is expected to start serving until 2020.