Advanced Rapid Transit (ART)
Top Performer in Driverless Automation
Our Advanced Rapid Transit (ART) solutions fill the gap between street-running trams (low capacity) and heavy rail metros (high capacity). ART excels as a medium capacity transit system on dedicated guideways, whether at-grade, elevated or underground.
Technological Innovation
ART’s revolutionary Linear Induction Motor (LIM) propulsion system enables fully automated driverless train operation. It consistently delivers in excess of 30,000 passengers per hour, per direction, around the clock, in all weather conditions.
More Affordable Train Transit
ART typically requires half the capital cost of a conventional underground metro system.
- Operates on small curves and steep grades to allow greater use of less expensive guideways
- Permits smaller, less expensive stations
- Reduces operating costs
Sustainable Advantage
A climate-friendly, non-polluting alternative to motorized road and air travel, ART offers superior service that entices people from their cars.
- Lighter trains, slender guideways, unobtrusive stations blend attractively with or into planned and existing buildings, structures and streetscapes
- Lowest wayside noise of any rail transit system
- Consistent and dependable service with short wait times at stations and quick journey times
Key Features
- Suitable for multiple applications
- Lower annual operations and maintenance costs
- Ability to operate at very high service frequencies
- Easy system expandability
- All-weather operation on challenging alignments
- Accommodates far more passengers than rail systems with grade crossings at higher than average speeds
- High levels of safety, reliability and low life-cycle costs
In major cities throughout the world, ART systems transport 150 million people per year.
Find out more about Bombardier’s ART solutions.
