CAF has been awarded the tender for 121 bidirectional trams from public transport company ATAC. These will service new and existing lines in Rome, Italy.
The framework agreement, valued at EUR 457 million, includes an initial application contract covering the delivery of the first 40 trams.
The new vehicles will replace the city’s aging Stanga class trams on existing lines, as well as service the Archeotram line planned for Rome’s central archaeological area.
The vehicles will be 33.5 meters long and accommodate up to 215 passengers, with 68 seats and two stations available for disabled people.
They will be equipped with air conditioning, video surveillance systems, sound systems for announcements and passenger counting and are also equipped with a frontal collision warning system.
According to Eugenio Patanè (PD), Councillor of the Lazio Region, and chairman of the public works, infrastructure, mobility and transport commission, the new trams will be more spacious and better performing than their predecessors, with less noise and able to deal with sharper curves. They will also be able to travel without a power line on some routes.
Hitachi, Stadler and Skoda also took part in the public tender. CAF’s offer reduced the tender figure by more than 10 percent, also improving delivery times, with the first tram scheduled to arrive 18 months after the contract signing – at the latest.
“Having fulfilled the legal requirements for signing the contract, an intense period of fine-tuning the executive project now begins, which will be submitted to ministerial bodies for the necessary authorisations and vehicle construction.”
