Rio de Janeiro Light Rail

Rio de Janeiro Light Rail Portuguese: VLT do Rio de Janeiro is a modern light rail system serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The system is among several new public transport developments in the region ahead of the city's successful bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics Its official name is VLT Carioca, the initialism "VLT" which stands for Veículo leve sobre trilhos, literally Light vehicle over rails being equivalent to the English term light rail

1 Overview
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Overviewedit

The inaugural LRT service passing Rio de Janeiro's Theatro Municipal

The first phase, consisting of a single 15-kilometre line between the Novo Rio Bus Terminal and Santos Dumont Airport and 18 stops,3 was inaugurated on 5 June 2016, two months ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony,4 with regular service beginning the following day For the first month of operation, it was free 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 Airport1 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 32 Alstom Citadis 402 low-floor trams carrying 420 passengers each They are bi-directional, air-conditioned, have seven sections, and eight doors per side The first five trams were built in Alstom's facility in La Rochelle, France, and the remaining 27 were built in Alstom's facility in Taubaté, in the state of São Paulo12 The trams are the first to use a combination of ground-level power supply APS and on-board supercapacitor energy storage SRS to eliminate overhead lines along the entire route

The remainder of the three-line, 28-km network will open in stages by the end of 2017 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 in the city centre

Referencesedit

^ a b c d "Rio's trams will run for the Olympics: Brazil's wire-free modern tramway opens, part of a major revitalisation project for Rio de Janeiro" July 2016 Tramways & Urban Transit, p 244 UK: LRTA Publishing
^ a b "Rio de Janeiro tramway inaugurated" Railway Gazette International 6 June 2016 Retrieved 15 October 2016
^ "Light Rail" Companhia de Desenvolvimento Urbano da Região do Porto do Rio de Janeiro 22 May 2011 Retrieved 17 November 2014
^ Belen, Nelson 6 June 2016 "After Two Week Delay, VLT Opens in Rio de Janeiro" The Rio Times Retrieved 7 June 2016

External linksedit

VLT Carioca

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Transport in Rio de Janeiro City

Airports

Main	Galeão Santos Dumont
Other	Civil: Jacarepaguá Military: Afonsos AFB, Galeão AFB, Santa Cruz AFB Former: Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Manguinhos

Road

Major roads	Av Atlântica Av Brasil Av Rio Branco Av Vieira Souto Lagoa–Barra Highway Yellow Line Red Line

Rail/cable car

Systems	Metro: MetrôRio Train: SuperVia
Metro	Line 1 Line 2 Line 4 List of Rio de Janeiro metro stations
Train	List of SuperVia stations
Cable car	Sugarloaf Cable Car Teleférico do Alemão Teleférico da Providência
Light rail	Corcovado Rack Railway Santa Teresa Tram VLT Light Rail
Major train stations	Botafogo Carioca Central do Brasil

Bus

Systems	Bus rapid transit: BRT Bus rapid service: BRS
BRT services	Transoeste, Transcarioca, Transolímpica List of Rio de Janeiro BRT stations
Major bus stations	Novo Rio Bus Terminal Terminal Alvorada

Boat

Port
Praça XV Station

Ticketing

RioCard

Category
Commons

v e Urban public transport networks and systems in Brazil
Metropolitan area commuter rail	Crato–Juazeiro Fortaleza Maceió Rio de Janeiro São Paulo Teresina
Rapid transit	Belo Horizonte Brasília Porto Alegre Recife Rio de Janeiro Salvador São Paulo
Light rail	Cuiabá Light Rail under construction Maceió Light Rail under construction Rio de Janeiro Light Rail Santos Light Rail
Tram	Campos do Jordao Itatinga Santa Teresa Tram Rio Santos
Trolleybuses	Santos São Paulo
BRT	RIT Curitiba Other BRT
Ticketing systems	Bilhete Único RioCard Vem