Renata Veríssimo

Innovation in Urban Mobility

VLT of São Paulo is coming

By January 2016, the first Light Rail Vehicle (VLT) from Brazil will be operating on special schedule in the State of São Paulo. I will show you how the stations are beautiful and say some
news about it. The winner of public auction, BR Mobilidade, will be operating the system, probably between 9 am and 4 pm. The future of the Light Rail Vehicle is comming. This new modal in Brazil is beeing built by the State Government of São Paulo between cities Santos and São Vicente . The operation will start with 9 stations, 7 vehicles; 6,5 kilometres of track permanent and Electronic Ticketing System (SBE in Portuguese).

It will be able to transport more than 3 thousand passengers per hour; will have 5,3 minutes for headway, commercial speed of 23.4 km/h and 16 minutes travel time between the A point to B point. We hope that this modal, considering it is one of the best public transport for small and medium-sized cities, is able to effectively improve mobility in these cities.

published on http://www.uitp.org – October 22, 2015