Rio de Janeiro Light Rail
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| Native name | VLT Carioca | ||
| Owner | City of Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Locale | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| Transit type | Light rail | ||
| Number of lines | 3 | ||
| Number of stations | 42 | ||
| Website | www |
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| Operation | |||
| Began operation | 5 June 2016 | ||
| Operator(s) | Operação Urbana Porto Maravilha | ||
| Number of vehicles | 32 Alstom Citadis 402 trams | ||
| Train length | 44 m (144 ft 4 1⁄4 in) | ||
| Headway | 3-15 minutes 30 minutes (night) |
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| System length | 28 km (17 mi) | ||
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge | ||
| Electrification | 750 V DC (Alstom APS/SRS) | ||
| Average speed | 15 km/h (9.3 mph) | ||
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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 ) being equivalent to the English term light rail.
The first phase, consisting of a single 15-kilometre line between the Novo Rio Bus Terminal and Santos Dumont Airport and 18 stops, was inaugurated on 5 June 2016, two months ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony, 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 Airport. 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 Paulo. 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.
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