Thales has won two rail signalling contracts as part of Hong Kong International Airport expansion programme. The first contract involves resignalling the existing APM line to accommodate configuration changes and the relocation of the depot. This complex project will take seven years to complete and involves working on an operational system without interrupting services to users.
The second contract is for new trains that will be equipped with Thales’s SelTrac CBTC solution. Installed on board the trains, SelTrac is the central nervous system of the signalling solution, controlling train trajectory, speed and headway to ensure safety and maintain communications between the trains and the operations centre.
Thales, in cooperation with Niigata-Transys Co. (NTS), an IHI Corporation Group company specialised in transport system, will play a key role in the project by extending the existing lines of the Automated People Mover system, a driverless train system that links the different terminals of the airport and the SkyPier ferry terminal.
Since it opened in 1998, Hong Kong International Airport has experienced strong growth and is now one of the world’s busiest airport in terms of both passenger traffic and freight volumes. To meet the long-term air traffic demand which is expected to reach over 100 million passengers by 2030, the airport is about to expand into a three-runway system, including a new third runway and a new concourse to support the growth. This will mean modifying the existing transport infrastructure and rethinking mobility systems in and around the airport.
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