VAL Automated Guided Transit Characteristics
and Evolutions

 

Regis Lardennois

VAL (Light Automated Vehicle) is a medium capacity driverless automated guideway transit system. It has demonstrated both technical feasibility and economical performance of driverless operation applied to a metro line.

It includes several advanced will proven technologies. Since the first line design, the product has been adapted to various operating requirements and enhanced by application of further technological evolutions in several areas: Automatic Train Control, Rolling Stock, Track.

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