Draft:Hitachi driverless set

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The Hitachi set is the upcoming sixth series of rapid transit rolling stock used in the subway system of Toronto, Ontario, Canada that will be used on the upcoming Ontario Line. They were ordered by Infrastructure Ontario after contract for rolling stock, signalling, operations and maintenance was awarded to the consortium in November 2022, with an estimated cost of CA$9.00 billion.This train would include newly designed automatic sliding doors and installation of wheelchair accessible seats and bike racks, the trains will be scheduled to be built by Hitachi Rail, and will be delivered by 2031.

History

The design of the trains were awarded by the Roling Stock, System and Operations Maintenance (RSSOM) in November 2022, the mayor of Ontario, Doug Ford is announcing that the Toronto Transit Commission is building a new subway line to relieve overcrowding on Line 1 Yonge-University. The 19.6 kilometer line would connect from Science Centre to Exhibition downtown west, the new trains will be prepared by the Toronto Transit Commision for the new line planned for the 2030's, including the use of new station names and new platform screen doors.

The Ontario Line will be able to deliver faster, more frequent service by using modern technology that has been adopted by subway systems around the world. The line will feature fully automated trains with modern signalling like the ones used in Vancouver, London, Paris and Singapore.

Hitachi is the lead member of the Connect 6ix consortium, which will develop and build new rolling stock for the Ontario Line for the Toronto Transit Commission.

The set will be a future project for the TTC, to provide for passengers to board modern, faster 90 kilometer speeding automatic subway trains, in accordance with operations and maintenance agreements. This train is also for people with physical disabilities. Passenger information will be added to provide passengers with communications, CCTV cameras will be installed in all canopys on each car, the automatic train control will be added to this fleet making it's model driveless.

Part of this project would also have a Maintenance and Storage Facility, where the vehicles are stored, the Operations Control Centre where staff control train operations and are connected to TTC and GO Transit systems and the Ontario Backup Operations Control Centre, which will be scheduled to be built in the future.

The Hitachi train sets will be equiped with PRESTO readers for fare systems, to provide pasengers to use PRESTO users on the TTC.

As part of it's easily-constructed equipment, it will provide faster, more frequent and reliable access to rapid transit, and will carry with more than 227,500 people will live within a 10-minute walk of an Ontario Line station.

Part of this car set will improve the quality of life for commuters by reducing daily travel time by 2040. These cars will replace the 30 year old aging TTC Bombardier T1 fleet, begining in 2030 and the new trains will be more similar to the TR fleet.

Design

The newly designed TTC rolling stock will include features such as:

• onboard Wi-Fi; 
• digital passenger *information screens; 
• charging points; 
• dedicated spaces for bicycles; 
• double wheelchair areas; 
• continuous, connected train cars; 
• heating and cooling throughout; 
• doors that will open in sync with platform edge doors; 
• regenerative braking.

The equipment will be capable of a maximum speed of 80 kph (50 mph).

References

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• Toronto rapid transit
• Toronto rapid transit passenger equipment
• Electric multiple units of Canada
• Hitachi multiple units