Case Study
CBTC Signalling System - São Paulo Metro
Requirement The São Paulo Metro (Portuguese: Metropolitano de São Paulo, commonly called Metrô) is the main rapid-transit system in the city of São Paulo and the largest in Brazil. It is also the second largest system in South America and the third largest in Latin America. The Metro has a length of 74.3 kilometres, distributed into Line 1 (Blue), Line 2 (Green), Line 3 (Red), Line 4 (Yellow) and Line 5 (Lilac) with total 64 stations. The metro system carries 4,000,000 pas- sengers a day. Solution Proven and reliable axle counting systems, which were integrated on full as- sembled cubicles, built the basis for the modernization of the existing CBTC system. The Frauscher axle counting system ACS2000 with IMC010 and the Frauscher wheel sensor RSR180 perfectly fits the requirement of