CSR Zhuji s World Expo Metro Vehicle Undergoes 140 million person-times of Running Test

Since April 15 when Shanghai World Expo Metro Volunteer Guarantee Activity kicked off, the 600 metro vehicles, which were research and produced by CSR Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd., have maintained Zero Rescue and Zero Passenger Vacancy running record to this day. So far, it has transported more than 140 million person-times of passengers safely, which is equivalent to eight relocations to ShanghaiCity s total population , said Yan Desheng, Regional Service Representative resident in CSR Zhuji Shanghai Metro Department, while being interviewed during the Hunan Week held by Shanghai World Expo.

It is learned that CSR Zhuji s metro vehicles mainly serve Shanghai Metro Line 1, Line 4, and Line 11. Since the opening of Shanghai World Expo, the three lines will respectively transport 1.28 million person-times, 800,000 million person-times, and 180,000 million person-times of passengers each day. Aside from 27 of 49 metro vehicles along the Line 1 that were manufactured by CSR Zhuji, 28 metro vehicles along the Line 4 and 26 metro vehicles in service along the Line 11 were supplied by CSR Zhuji. By July 18, CSR Zhuji s all vehicles functioned well, and these vehicles total running mileage hit about 1.30 million kilometers. Moreover, there was no significant accident during the running period, and about 1.685 million person-times of passengers took CSR Zhuji s metro vehicles per day on the average.

Why CSR Zhuji s metro vehicles can undergo such tough running test?

After the 100-day-long Shanghai World Expo Professional Metro Guarantee Service came to the end, Yan Desheng said: CSR Zhuji s strong technical strength, favorable product quality, and considerate after-sales service are three key factors to ensure the safe running of the World Expo metro vehicles.

Yan Desheng noted: CSR Zhuji has profound accumulation in urban rail vehicle research & production technologies of European origin. So far, CSR Zhuji is the only enterprise passing IRIS Standard in China rolling stock industry, and it has developed urban rail vehicle design technology platform, manufacture technology platform, product technology platform, and business platform with independent intellectual property. It also produces products fully in line with IRIS standard, thus its products can meet high-standard and high-intensity operation demands .

Chief Expert of CSR Zhuji Chen Xihong said: To meet the demand for fast passenger transportation, Shanghai Metro Line 11, for instance, requires that the vehicle s hourly speed should hit 100km, while in domestic market, only CSR Zhuji can develop 100km/h Type A metro vehicle to meet such running demand.

Surely, the safe running of the World Expo metro vehicles is also conditional on quality service guarantee. Yan Desheng said that as early as March before the opening of the World Expo, CSR Zhuji signed agreement to become Shanghai World Expo s first round of volunteer service unit for professional metro guarantee. After ShanghaiCity launched the World Expo Metro Guarantee Activity in the middle 10 days of April, CSR Zhuji assigned dozens of site service personnel to make Base-type, Resident-style, and Trial Drive guarantee plan so as to ensure the vehicle running in an all-round and multi-angle manner during the World Expo period.

While being interviewed on the arduous work for ensuring the safe running of the World Expo metro vehicles, Yan Desheng said: our driving guarantee personnel stayed in the vehicle for more than 10 hours each day, so as to efficiently resolve the problem in the event of driving malfunction, as well as to ensure the vehicle s efficient running. If the transportation pressure is relatively small, our driving guarantee personnel will adopt Resident Mode , namely, each personnel will take charge of one section, and all personnel shall stay within their responsible section during the vehicle s running hours, so as to assure the vehicle s normal operation. As to maintenance personnel on the base, they should shift work within 24hours in two metro bases. To ensure the vehicle s normal starting on the next day, they usually busied themselves till seven o clock of the next day.

Yan Desheng added: So far, CSR Zhuji has delivered 31 vehicles 186 cars to Shanghai Line 11 North Section Vehicle Engineering Project, of which, 26 vehicles have been put into running, which can fully meet Line 11 s running requirements .

It is learned that CSR Zhuji now is busying itself in producing metro vehicles for Guangzhou Asian Game. Yan Desheng revealed that CSR Zhuji would introduce its experiences in the Shanghai World Expo into Guangzhou Asian Games.