Metrovalencia’s new Line 10 (Alacant-Natzaret) will have a traffic light priority system at all pedestrian and vehicle crossings along the entire surface route.
Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) has coordinated this action with the Sustainable Mobility area of the Valencia City Council and has been carried out as part of the signaling and track equipment and architecture works for the new line, the Generalitat has detailed in a release.
The signaling system installed by FGV on Line 10 includes the necessary equipment (detection, control, management and signals) for the coordination of tram crossings with road and pedestrian traffic, in order to guarantee safety along the different crossing points located on the path.
Pedestrian and vehicle crossings are regulated with loops, optical sensors or with signals sent by the interlocks distributed along the line. For its part, the tram has previous detection points, as well as later ones that cancel this situation.
Traffic light priority has been established throughout the route between the Alacant underground station and Natzaret, and in the opposite direction, which allows the route from end to end to be completed in 16 minutes.
Compared to the other Metrovalencia tram lines in service, Line 10 will have priority of way at all crossing points, while Lines 4 and 6 cross intersections where this situation is not offered due to the traffic conditions of the areas they pass through.
Line 10, once completed, will connect the center of Valencia with the area of the City of Arts and Sciences and the district of Nazareth, expanding in a “very considerable” way the transport offer of the Metrovalencia network. This line combines underground and surface sections, with a route of 5 kilometers and 8 stations and stops (3 underground and 5 surface).
The signaling work on this line, budgeted at more than five million euros, has included the installation of four electronic interlocks, 22 railway signals, 10 tram signals, 40 train detection points and 116 train protection beacons (ATP beacons (Automatic Train Protection).
The construction project for this line as a whole is co-financed by the European Union, through the operational program of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the Valencian Community 2014-2020.
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