The town of Daejeon in South Korea is shifting ahead with its new mild rail undertaking after the signing of a Won293.4bn ($219.4m) contract for its first hydrogen trams and the reveal of additional data on its building.
The Won1.5tn Daejeon City Railway Line 2 undertaking will see the development of a 38.8km mild rail line within the metropolis that will likely be served by South Korea’s first domestically constructed hydrogen trams from Hyundai Rotem.
Daejeon’s native authority additionally introduced that it will give the primary building orders for the undertaking this month for 5 of the undertaking’s 14 sections, with one other order to observe in October.
The remaining 9 sections will cowl the set up of sunshine rail tracks on current roadways and can start building sequentially from January 2025, with the undertaking anticipated to start companies in 2028.
Mayor Lee Jang-woo stated town determined to interrupt the undertaking up into completely different sections to extend the participation of native contractors consistent with its 49% whereas permitting bigger firms to nonetheless tackle the tough sections.
He stated: “When establishing the tram building order plan, we subdivided the development websites and considerably lowered the bidding participation necessities to broaden the alternatives for native firms to take part.”
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The undertaking consists of the development of the 38.8km round line and 45 tram stops, of which 41 will likely be relative varieties with separate stops for the interior and outer strains, three will likely be island varieties with an built-in cease, and one will likely be an underground cease at Seodaejeon station.
Hyundai Rotem’s hydrogen tram design has been in improvement since 2021 and was revealed to the general public for the primary time in August 2023, the mannequin is powered by hydrogen gas cells and might journey 150km on one cost.
