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| Rio de Janeiro Light Rail | |||
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| Native name | VLT Carioca | ||
| Owner |  Municipality of Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Locale | Rio de Janeiro,RJ,Brazil | ||
| Transit type | Light rail | ||
| Number of lines | 4 | ||
| Number of stations | 43 | ||
| Website | www | ||
| Operation | |||
| Began operation | 5 June 2016 | ||
| Operator(s) |  VLT Carioca | ||
| Character | At-grade | ||
| Number of vehicles | 32Alstom Citadis 402 trams[1] | ||
| Train length | 44 m (144 ft4+1⁄4 in) | ||
| Headway | 3-15 minutes 30 minutes (night) | ||
| Technical | |||
| System length | 28 km (17 mi) | ||
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)standard gauge | ||
| Electrification | 750 V DC (AlstomAPS/SRS)[1][2] | ||
| Average speed | 15 km/h (9.3 mph) | ||
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Rio de Janeiro Light Rail (Portuguese:VLT Carioca) is a modernlight rail system servingRio de Janeiro, Brazil. The system is among several newpublic transport developments in the region ahead of the city's successful bid for the2016 Summer Olympics.[1] Its official name isVLT Carioca, theinitialism "VLT" (which stands forveículo leve sobre trilhos, literallyLight vehicle on rails) being equivalent to the English termlight rail.
The first phase, consisting of a single 15-kilometre line between theNovo Rio Bus Terminal andSantos Dumont Airport and 18stops,[3] was inaugurated on 5 June 2016, two months ahead of theOlympics opening ceremony,[4] with regular service beginning the following day. For the first month of operation, it wasfree of charge to ride, but only two trams were in service between noon and 15:00 on the section between Parada dos Museus in Praça Mauá and Santos Dumont Airport.[1] The remainder of the line was opened and service was expanded to full-time operation on 12 July, although only 16 of the 18 stops on the line are in use.
The network uses 32Alstom Citadis 402low-floor trams carrying 420 passengers each. They arebi-directional,air-conditioned, have seven sections, and eight doors per side. The first five trams were built inAlstom's facility inLa Rochelle, France and shipped to Rio in July 2015,[5] and the remaining 27 were built in Alstom's facility inTaubaté, in thestate of São Paulo.[2]
There are nooverhead lines installed along the entire route. Instead, Alstom has equipped approximately 80% of the line with its proprietaryground-level power supply (APS) system. The remaining 20% uses on-boardsupercapacitor-basedenergy storage (SRS), also developed by Alstom.[6] Trams are still equipped withpantographs for use in the maintenance facility.
The remainder of the three-line, 28-km network will open in stages by the end of 2017.[needs update] It is estimated that when the entire network is at full capacity, it would be able to eliminate 60% of buses and 15% of automobile traffic circulating inthe city centre.
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