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Passenger Access Products, Air Conditioning, High-Voltage Solutions and On-Board Electronics

Website
www.faiveleytransport.com
Email Address
Kasha.Dougall@faiveleytransport.com
Address
Le Delage Building
,
Hall Parc - Bâtiment 6A, 6ème étage

,
3, rue du 19 mars 1962
,
92230 Gennevilliers CEDEX,
France
Phone
+33 1 48 13 65 00
Fax Number
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Faiveley Transport is a world-leading supplier of on-board railway systems. The company offers a complete scope of vehicle sub-systems including onboard and platform screen doors, pantographs, air-conditioning solutions, onboard electronics, brakes and coupler systems and global customer services.

Thanks to its extended worldwide network, Faiveley Transport can accompany customers throughout their international development. Its commitment in this context goes well beyond a simple sales relationship and enables them to provide local competencies in engineering, production and after-sales service.

Platform screen doors, onboard access doors, moving steps and interior doors

For over 70 years, Faiveley Transport has been at the forefront of door system technology, supplying urban, suburban, mainline and high-speed networks.

Faiveley Transport offers a wide range of passenger access products including platform screen doors, onboard access doors, moving steps and interior doors. Our products and solutions are ideal for both new passenger rail cars or refurbishment programs.

We are committed to providing reliable solutions which meet the most demanding safety requirements.

Air conditioning solutions

For Faiveley Transport, passenger comfort constitutes one of the key factors of success for a train. Faiveley Transport is the world leader in onboard air conditioning systems with expertise in many fields including thermo dynamic, mechanical, electrical, acoustic and temperature systems.

We place great importance on the quality of our products with a commitment to performance and reliability whilst always taking environmental issues into account.

High-voltage solutions – pantographs, switches, contactors, and master controllers

Faiveley Transport is at the leading edge of managing high-voltage solutions including pantographs, power switchgears, contactors, integrated power switching management, roof equipment and safety solutions. With its range of master controllers directly interfacing with the train management system, Faiveley Transport can provide customers with smart and cost effective solutions.

With the most recent development of its Pegase concept, Faiveley Transport is capable of supplying a fully integrated high-voltage roof system providing significant weight and space reduction, providing its customer with a true competitive advantage.

Onboard electronics

Faiveley Transport’s dedicated electronic competence centre designs and produces a wide range of onboard electronic products including:

  • Video surveillance systems for monitoring the carriage interior, the track and the access door areas
  • A complete range of auxiliary converters (5kVA to 200kVA)
  • Double or triple redundancy and odo-tachymetry systems using advanced Doppler radars
  • Monitoring systems and crash-resistant event recorders
  • Wheel slip and slide protection systems (WSSP)
  • Wireless data transmission for operational and / or maintenance data

Thanks to over 30 years’ experience and our investment in R&D, we are masters of the latest technology and provide innovations that offer real progress in terms of technical and economical effectiveness, including the new KATIUM topology, which allows for significant reductions in the volume and mass of an auxiliary converter.

Brakes and coupler systems

The Faiveley Transport brake and coupler product line has always been the benchmark for railway brake systems. It combines proven solutions with advanced innovations in order to supply customers throughout the world with the safest and most cost effective systems.

Faiveley Transport’s modular ranges of pneumatic, hydraulic, electronic control, air supply, couplers and friction brake products allow them to undertake full system responsibility for the customer.

Worldwide service provision – maintenance, installation, renovation, advice and spare parts

Today the requirements of railway industry customers go well beyond the conventional framework of equipment supply or turnkey project management. Faiveley Transport provides pertinent solutions to essential issues such as reliability, availability, maintainability, safety and continuous reduction of operating costs.

A growing number of customers also want to outsource services. Here again, Faiveley Transport provides an inclusive solution to human resources and equipment resources worldwide.

Press Releases

Projects

  • West Coast Main Line

    The modernisation of the 399-mile (641.6km) rail route between London and Glasgow and its key divergences to Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, was the largest rail project to date in the UK.

  • Copenhagen Metro, Light Rail and Metro Project, Denmark

    Denmark's capital city, København (Copenhagen), took light rail and metro technology to another level in October 2002 by opening an extensive system capable of being operated entirely without drivers. The project gained momentum through the area to be covered not being on the city's S-tog suburban heavy rail network.

  • Guangzhou Metro

    Guangzhou Metro is a light rail transit system in the city of Guanghzou (formerly known as Canton) in China. It is the fourth metro system to be introduced in Mainland China.

  • Dubai Metro Network

    Dubai inaugurated its metro network in September 2009, becoming the first urban metro network to run in the Gulf’s Arab states.

  • Barcelona

    Boosted by hosting the 1992 Olympic Games, Barcelona on Spain's north-east coast has continued to grow in reputation and

  • Metro do Porto

    Porto, Portugal's second-largest city with a population of 1.2 million, has suffered for many years from an inadequate p

  • Singapore Northeast Line

    The island of Singapore is densely populated and highly urban, and great economic growth experienced over the last two decades has demanded major improvements in public transport.

  • VAL Mini-Metro Line

    Rennes is a small city in Western France, but with a population of just under half a million is Brittany's largest dwell

  • Lyon Light Rail System

    Ranging from hired bicycles to a rack-assisted metro and shortly to add a tram-train operation, the city of Lyon has a wide range of public transport modes.

  • LGV Est Européen

    Over 20 years in development, the Ligne à Grande Vitesse (LGV) Est project originated in 1985, just five years after France's first scheduled TGV services began.

  • Berlin U-Bahn Upgrading

    The city-state of Berlin has a long-established underground network, with the first trains running in 1902. The system h

  • Buenos Aires Metro

    Metro construction authority, Subterráneos de Buenos Aires SE (locally called Subte) is expanding the Buenos Aires metro system by adding three new lines, to bring 70% of the population within 400m of a metro station.

  • Tilting Trains

    Switzerland and Great Britain are the latest European countries to introduce new trains using tilt technology to increas

  • Budapest Metro Four

    The Municipality of Budapest and the State Government ordered the construction of a mass transit underground system in early 1998. The project was vigorously examined, and deemed to be the best answer to Budapest's increasing transport problems.

  • Central Link Light Rail

    Seattle's Central Link light rail opened on 18 July 2009, offering the city its first light rail. It provides an alternative mode of transport to the residents of the car-dominated city.

  • Nantes Light Railway

    The French city of Nantes extended its light rail system by 50% in August 2000 to 27km. Nantes claims to be the city which invented public transport when, in 1826, it saw the first public hackney cab.

  • Kuala Lumpur Airport Express

    A new 57km (35-mile) express rail link between the centre of the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur and the principal intern

  • Madrid Metro

    Spain's capital Madrid, home to over three million people, has one of the most extensive metro systems anywhere in the w

  • Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Line

    The 1,318km Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line connects the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, travelling across the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu.

  • Strasbourg Light Rail Extension, France

    As a major administrative centre of the European Community, Strasbourg in eastern France began moves early in 1989 to create a public transport system which would be appropriate to its position at the hub of the continent.

  • Vancouver SkyTrain

    Vancouver is Canada's third city, the metropolitan area having a population approaching 2.3 million and projected for 3

  • Croydon Tramlink

    Croydon is part of the London conurbation, 15 miles south of the capital's centre. The most populous London borough with a population over 330,000, due to its proximity to central London and own concentration of commercial property, Croydon has heavy outward and inward commuter traffic.

  • Heathrow Express

    The Heathrow Express is a high-speed service link offering the fastest journey time between Heathrow Airport and central London of 16 minutes and 21 minutes to Terminal 5.

  • Line 14 Automatic Metro, Paris

    As well as being the principal component of its urban public transport system, the Metro is a long-standing symbol of Paris. The bulk of the basic system was completed before the outbreak of World War II, a densely packed network within the city-proper's boundaries.

  • Thalys

    Thalys is a cross-border, high-speed passenger service that centres on the Brussels Midi station, linking the Belgian capital to Amsterdam, Paris and Cologne among others. The service is offered jointly by the Belgian, French, Dutch and German railways.

  • Midland Metro

    The 12.7 mile (20.1km) Midland Metro light rail system links the UK's second largest city, Birmingham, with Wolverhampton to the north-west, the two also connected by a heavy rail main line.

  • Lille VAL

    Capital of the Nord-Pas de Calais region, Lille is France's fourth largest metropolitan area. The city has a population

  • Turin Metro

    The Italian city of Turin is regarded as the industrial heart of the country, and is home to Fiat, one of the country's

  • Toulouse Metro - Automated VAL System by Tisseo

    Capital of the Midi-Pyrénées region, Toulouse, in south-west France is the centre of one of Europe's fastest-growing metropolitan areas with an estimated population of over 1.1 million. It has serious transport problems that could worsen because expansion is taking place in regenerated wastelands with a poor road network.

  • Kowloon-Canton Railway

    The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the neighbouring Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in southern China repres

  • Shanghai Metro

    The economic boom in Shanghai, which has a population of around 19 million and growing (U.N. estimates 23.4 million by 2

  • Finland Pendolino Tilting Trains

    Finland's rail administration underwent a substantial reorganisation in 1995, when the Ratahallintokeskus (RHK), or Finnish Rail Administration, was created as a civil service department, under the aegis of the country's Ministry of Transport and Communications.

  • Ankara Metro

    Ankara, the Turkish capital, first devised a project to build a light rail metro system in 1987, and was able to take ad

  • Netherlands

    Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Netherlands Railways - NS) runs trains over 2000km of electrified railway, and conversion of the

  • AVE

    Having first sanctioned a 160km/h (100mph) maximum speed as recently as 1986, Spain moved quickly to get high-speed rail

  • Grenoble Light Rail System, Rhône-Alpes

    Grenoble opened its first tramway in 1987. With the opening of Line D in October 2007, the system had grown to four lines with a combined length of 34.2km (21.4 miles).

Address
Le Delage Building
Hall Parc - Bâtiment 6A, 6ème étage
3, rue du 19 mars 1962
92230 Gennevilliers CEDEX
France

Email address
Kasha.Dougall@faiveleytransport.com
Phone
+33 1 48 13 65 00
Fax Number
www.faiveleytransport.com