Fleet management system for the trams of Kaohsiung

CAF Signalling, a company that develops, designs, manufactures and maintains railway signaling systems, has awarded GMV the contract for the “Supply and installation of the advanced fleet management system” for the newly constructed tramline in the city of Kaohsiung (Taiwan).

The system to be set up by GMV will keep a centralized control of the whole fleet. This includes all the following: tracking of the tram fleet, management of the messenger service between the control center and trams on Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) and technology and service regulation operations to guarantee compliance with transport performance as expressed in the bid.

GMV’s fleet management system will be fitted as part of a multisystem and will therefore need to be integrated functionally with external systems both in the control center and onboard the trams.

All trains will be fitted with GMV’s inhouse M20 onboard unit, a highly robust and dependable mobile GPS tracking appliance with GPRS/GSM/UMTS communications based on an internal modem. The contract also includes installation of touch screens in both cabins to work as the driver’s human-machine interface and a control center in the offices of Kaohsiung’s Mass Rapid Transit System, comprising a set of high-availability servers and operator posts for real-time monitoring of the whole system.

The GMV-developed advanced fleet management system for trains and trams, SAE-R^® , is already up and running in RENFE, Servicios Ferroviarios de Mallorca, the tramlines of Warsaw abroad and Zaragoza at home and is now in rollout phase for Morocco’s public railway operator, ONCF.