NEWS & EVENTS
NEWS & EVENTS
China Modern Tram Industry Planning & Design Symposium successfully held in Nanjing
On May 25, China Modern Tram Industry Planning & Design Symposium was held in Nanjing. The symposium, sponsored by the Rail Transit Branch of China Civil Engineering Society (CCES) and the Railway Transport Branch of Jiangsu Comprehensive Transport Academy, was co-organized by the Beijing Urban Construction Design & Development Group (BJUCD) teaming up with JSTI Group and Shanghai Urban Construction Design & Research Institute. More than 120 representatives from the design companies of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Chongqing and the planning and construction companies of Xuzhou, Suzhou, Changzhou, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Huai’an, Lianyungang, Suqian, Zhangzhou, Zhengzhou, Cangzhou and Zhuhai attended the symposium.
The symposium was presided over by Beijing Jiaotong University’s Prof. Liang Qinghuai, vice secretary-general of the Rail Transit Branch of CCES.
Feng Aijun, secretary-general of the Rail Transit Branch of CCES and vice chief engineer of BJUCD, started the symposium with the report Analysis and Discussions on the Development of China’s Tram Industry, sharing his opinions on the development status, concerns during the development and future situation and risks with the participants, making preliminary analysis on the merits and demerits of trams, medium- and low-speed maglev and monorail and characteristics comparisons between these transits and BTR in solving urban rail transit problems.
Hao Xiaoliang, senior engineer of BJUCD’s General Service Department, introduced the formulation ideas, contents and innovations of the local standard Beijing Tramcar Design Specifications. He included the planning into the Design Specifications, and elaborated the route network’s operation and arrangement in the planning. He also presented the considerations on the necessity of developing urban traffic, the functional positioning of tramcars and how to enable tramcars popular and profitable. In Gao’s report, detailed comparisons between the medium- and lower-capacity rail transit modes tramcars and BRT were made in the aspects of investment, construction, speed, operation cost, capacity and transport arrangement among others.
The symposium invited seven experts to focus on the discussion about key technical issues in the planning and design of tramcars, including planning concept, key technologies, design standards and operation modes. Tramcars, as a medium- and lower-capacity urban rail transit mode, featuring environmental friendly, comfortable, good appearance, energy-saving and cost effective, can fill the transport vacancy between subways and buses, improve the functions of public transit system. They have been widely spread and applied in the urban public transit system.
When the theme reports were completed, group discussions were made from the aspects of the planning and positioning, technical standards, cost reduction for tramcars. Based on the discussions, the tramcar planning and designing proposal were developed and publicized at the symposium.