16 April 2020:Bombardier Transportation has signed a USD 113 million contract with Fraport AG to provide operations and maintenance for next 5 years to the BOMBARDIER INNOVIA APM 100 people mover system. The contract also includes modernizing signalling technology with the BOMBARDIER CITYFLO 650 solution at Frankfurt Airport.
"We look forward to continuing our long-standing successful partnership with Fraport, whose 25th anniversary we celebrated last year," said Michael Fohrer, Head of Bombardier Transportation Germany. "Our team is doing a great job to ensure that millions of travellers and guests arrive safely, comfortably and with almost 100 per cent reliability at their destinations in the terminals around the clock. Modernizing the fully automated passenger transport system will extend the life cycle of the entire facility as well as its operation and maintenance by at least ten years".
"Our proven state-of-the-art CITYFLO 650 train control technology will prepare the system in Frankfurt for a digital future," Richard Hunter, Head of Rail Control Solutions, Bombardier Transportation. "This communication-based system can be installed without interfering with on-going operations and tight schedules because it can be used together with the existing signalling technology and does not require the system to be shut down".
The system is in operation at airports in more than 35 countries around the world, including Germany, USA, China, Spain, Thailand, India, Saudi Arabia and Brazil. This is the second time that the fully automatic CITYFLO 650 communication-based train control system (CBTC) will be used in Germany.
Since 1994, the fully automatic passenger transport system has been connecting Terminals 1 and 2 at Frankfurt Airport named "SkyLine".