Automatic Guided Transit
High Speed Systems and Trains
Light Rail Transit
      For meeting the pressing demands of bustling, crowded megalopolis, Heavy Rail Transit can provide transport authorities with overwhelming advantages like :

    - exclusive segregated right-of-way
    - reductions of surface traffic congestion and travel time
    - an increase in transport capacity
    - reductions in energy consumption and pollution while having a minimal visual impact on the surrounding environment.
     
     

Serving 80 cities worldwide, Heavy Rail Transit consists of about 270 lines with a total of 4,700 km and 4,300 stations. Including regional subways (RER) and light subways, HRT covers 100 cities and represents 300 lines worldwide covering 5,300 km and comprising about 5,000 stations. In Paris alone, subway networks represent 17 lines (600 kilometers) and consist of more than 500 stations.
In the last 25 years, the Paris subway has undergone a complete modernization program.





Infrastructures    Rolling stock   Operation and maintenance Based on its experience with the development of the Paris subway, SYSTRA offers, among other skills, quality service to move forward with a HRT project. SYSTRA provides assistance to the design and development of infrastructures, systems, equipment and rolling stock along with operation and maintenance assistance.

    SYSTRA believes in paying close attention to structural design options - and to their interaction with rolling stock and systems choices - in order to achieve substantial savings on total (structure construction) costs. For SYSTRA, design studies focus on integration, interface with existing (or future) structures, integration of geotechnical risks and hazards, and architectural treatment (structure architecture proper and integration in the urban site).  SYSTRA also selects the best suited construction methods, implementation methods and management control to ensure works co-ordination and progress and the safety of both the workforce and the population.


Rolling stock : Back to services

    SYSTRA engineers have conceived, designed and put into operation a great number of rubber tyre, steel wheel, urban and regional HRT vehicles. To ensure a maintenance of quality as well as performances and safety to passengers, SYSTRA engineers are constantly on the look out for aging rolling stock and equipment obsolescence. With the same aim in view, SYSTRA works in close cooperation with industrials to promote research and development of rolling stock.
  • Operation and Maintenance: Back to services

      • At SYSTRA, an overriding goal is to achieve top performance levels to provide a safe, regular and punctual service to the traveling public. To reach it requires good operation and maintenance services. When maintenance provides quality service to operations, operations can in turn offer a service of quality to the passenger. Operations and maintenance both require careful organization and management of human resources, equipment, information, procedures and costs. The know-how SYSTRA offers includes :

        - long term planning, procedures, administration and review
        - adapting company structure and improving management tools and skills by implementing computerized management information systems, adopting more rigorous financial management methods and changing the organization of work and redefining management and marketing prices
        - coupling operations and maintenance with the latest generation of computer and communication technology
        - training and transfer of know-how to assure the prompt presence of qualified personnel.
     




    SYSTRA's total project experience represents over 600 km of subway lines and construction of more than 800 stations. SYSTRA has contributed to the design, construction works and operation and maintenance assistance of major subway projects in :

    Mexico City, 10 lines (178 km and 154 stations) 4.4 million passengers/day  
    Santiago de Chile, 3 lines (40.4 km and 52 stations) 850,000 passengers/day  
    Caracas (Venezuela), 3 lines (44.6 km and 40 stations) over 1.2 million passengers/day  
    Cairo (Egypt), regional line (42 km and 33 stations) offers transport capacity of 60,000 passengers every hour and direction; urban line (18 km and 17 stations) completed in 1999   Project under way : 
    Guangzhou (China), first line in construction (18.4 km and 16 stations) operational by the end of 1998.  
     

    SYSTRA has also intervened in :
    - design studies for subways in the cities of Alexandria, Algiers, Ankara, Athens, Bogota, Lagos, Teheran and Seoul
    - construction works management in Lyon, Marseilles, Monterrey, Rio de Janeiro, Taipei
    - feasibility studies and design upgrades for subways in Atlanta, Barcelona, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Erevan, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Madrid, New York, Beijing, Singapore, Warsaw.