A five-member consortium has received a ‘Letter of Conditional Acceptance’ from the Qatar Railways Company for a systems package for the Doha Metro, the first metro system to be constructed in Qatar. The consortium consists of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Corporation, Hitachi, The Kinki Sharyo, and Thales. The newly accepted package calls for turnkey construction of a fully automated driverless metro system. Included are 75 sets of three-car trains, platform screen doors, tracks, a railway yard, and systems for signaling, power distribution, telecommunications and tunnel ventilation. The package is also expected to include maximum 20-year maintenance services for the metro system after its completion. The construction has been scheduled for completion by October 2019.
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