Appitrack innovation awarded at the 2011 Light Rail Awards
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Alstom’s fast automated tracklaying technology, Appitrack, was chosen as the Innovation of the Year at the 2011 Light Rail awards held in London on 5th October.
The system allows for limited excavation depths in order to speed up track-laying time with the ability to lay up to 200 metres of track per day, compared with just 50-60 metres using conventional methods, and therefore reduce project costs. Appitrack also as low noise levels and is applicable to all types of track surfaces and with all types of equipment.
Alstom has used Appitrack in the tramway projects recently inaugurated in Jerusalem, Reims, Algiers, and on the second line of the Orleans tramway that is due to enter service in 2012. It was in Orleans in March 2011 that Appitrack set a world track laying 403 metres of single track laid in one day, the equivalent length of almost four football pitches.