Türkiye: The municipality of the Turkish capital has released a video of the trains being assembled at a plant in Adzapari by Eurotem, a joint venture between Hyundai Rotem and national railway operator TCDD established in 2006. The first vehicles will reportedly be delivered to the metro operator in May, followed by dynamic testing.
10 trains will be delivered to provide passenger service on the M12 line. It will open in the end of the year, with 13 km of track, 11 stations and five-minute intervals during rush hours.
Assembly of driverless metro trains for Istanbul at the Eurotem plant. Source: İBB
The trains of Hyundai Rotem and Türasaş will be similar to those that operate on the M8 line from the beginning of 2023. Each trainset is 86 m long and 2.9 m wide, with a capacity of 1,081 passengers and a top speed of 80 km/h. A corresponding contract worth $316 mln was signed with the South Korean company in December 2017. Under the contract, the customer expects to receive 300 metro cars with a 50% localisation level to enable driverless operation on several lines of the Istanbul metro.
