Taoyuan City Government awarded a consortium of Hyundai Rotem, Taiwan’s construction company BES Engineering and Siemens, the contract for the electrical and mechanical solutions for the Green Line metro.
The Green Line in Taoyuan will be 27.8 km long and have 21 stations. Around 12.5 km of the line will be underground and roughly 15.3 km elevated. The Green Line will connect Taoyuan City with the future airport city Aerotropolis and the Taoyuan International Airport via the TTY Airport Line.
Under the contract, Siemens will deliver the Trainguard MT Communications-Based Train Control system, traction drives for the trains and the direct-current (DC) traction power supply. The metro line’s signalling system will enable unattended train operation (Grade of Automation, GoA4).
Works on elevated section on the Green Line were launched in October and after the line will be completed, there are planned two line extensions, to Daxi with three stations and to Chungli with seven stations.
In the future, the Green Line will connect Chungli and Taoyuan City with the future airport city of Aerotropolis via Taoyuan’s underground rail, the mass rapid transit TTY Airport Line, the Brown Line, the San-ying Line Extension to Bade and the Green Line Extension to Chung-li,” Chen Wen De, Director General of the Department of Rapid Transit Systems, said.
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