BART Taps Hitachi for CBTC
Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) has awarded a $798 million contract to Hitachi Rail STS USA, Inc., to supply a CBTC (communications-based train control) system for its Transbay Corridor Core Capacity Program.
The $3.5 billion program covers train control modernization and includes five new traction power substations, 306 new rail vehicles and the development of a maintenance complex. When completed in 2029, BART will have the increased capacity to operate 30 ten-car trains per hour along the corridor.
The Hitachi contract also includes wayside signaling, communications and automated train supervision systems.
BART awarded Hitachi another contract, valued at $8.6 million, to handle train control performance support services for up to 20 years.
As part BART’s train control work, Parsons Corp. recently received a $45 million engineering services contract. Click here for more.
“Replacing and modernizing BART’s 50-year-old train control system will be a generational project that will benefit our riders for decades to come,” said BART Assistant General Manager for Planning, Development, and Construction Carl Holmes.
