Innovative trams, streetcars, and light rail vehicles

In 2020, Düsseldorfer Rheinbahn AG and Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG jointly ordered 109 Avenio HF light rail vehicles, including an option for additional 48 units.

Thanks to its folding steps, the Avenio HF can serve different platform heights.

Delivery of the first vehicles is planned for 2025.

In 2019, VAG ordered 12 four-car Avenio trams – with options for a total of up to 75 additional vehicles.

Beginning 2022, the first twelve vehicles will gradually begin passenger service.

The elegant, timelessly modern Avenios will enable VAG to improve service on the lines of the Nuremberg tramway network that are already in high demand.

To connect the great places throughout San Francisco, SFMTA has ordered 219 light rail vehicles.

The newly-developed Muni LRV4 are based on the Model S200 and offer a roomier seating configuration, advanced reliability, and high energy efficiency thanks to a light-weight drive system.

First vehicles began passenger service in November 2017.

In 2017, BSAG has ordered 67 four-car Avenio trams and exercised the first option of 10 additional vehicles in 2018.

With a design reference to former trams of Bremen, the Avenios are visually integrated into the BSAG fleet.​

The Avenios for Bremen will be the first vehicles to be equipped ex works with the innovative collision warning system “Siemens Tram Assistant.”

Munich’s municipal utility, Stadtwerke München, has ordered eight trams in 2012, another 22 vehicles in 2015, and another 73 Avenios in 2019.

The new trams reach the comfort level, which is ranked as very comfortable according to DIN EN 12299 standard.

In a passenger survey, 47% of the users rated the Avenio Munich as “very good” and another 50% as “good.”

In a consortium with the general infrastructure contractor Per Aarsleff A/S, Siemens received an order for a turnkey light rail system in Copenhagen in 2018.

Siemens will deliver 29 four-car Avenio trams, signaling and communication technology, rail electrification, workshop equipment as well as maintenance services for 15 years.

Once commissioned in 2024, the line will support Copenhagen in becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral capital city.

In 2015, Potsdam’s transportation company (Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam, ViP) ordered two additional cars for each of the eight vehicles of their Combino fleet.

The Combino vehicles still offer high availability of more than 99% – despite their age (in operation since 1998) and after about 20 million kilometers in service.

In addition to partial refurbishment of the older modules, each of the extended Combinos can now accommodate 214 passengers, up from 175.

In 2015, Ulm’s municipal utility (Stadtwerke Ulm) ordered 12 trams for the new No. 2 line.

The vehicles have a driver assistance for automatic collision prevention.

The four independent brake systems are enhanced by a special assistance system to safely run on the long slopes in Ulm’s network.

For Doha’s Education City, Siemens was commissioned to build a tram system that operates without overhead contact lines.

In addition to 19 Avenios, Siemens is also delivering the  signaling equipment, communications system, supervisory control and data acquisition system, depot and workshop equipment as well as power supply.

The Avenios are equipped with the Sitras HES energy storage system – charging takes place at the stations.

In 2011, HTM (Haagsche Tramweg-Maatschappij) ordered 40 trams for The Hague’s network.

A transparent partition between the driver’s cab and the passenger area offers a unique riding experience.

In the following years, HTM exercised contract options which bring the total fleet size to 70 Avenios, with a capacity of 232 passengers per vehicle.

By 2017, 332 of the 528 trams operated by Wiener Linien were ultra low floor trams from Siemens.

The ULF Vienna tram has the lowest entrance height in the world, at only 19.7 cm.

The short trams provide space for 136 persons, the long trams for 207 persons.

The city of Calgary ordered the delivery of 63 vehicles of the S200 high-floor light rail platform from Siemens.

The vehicles were specially developed for the harsh climate in Canada, for example, with heatable windshields and couplers.​

Each S200 vehicle can transport up to 247 passengers and offers two wheelchair spaces as well as two multifunctional areas.

In Minnesota, 59 Siemens S70 low-floor light rail vehicles link the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Among other things, the vehicles have reinforced insulation to reduce noise and provide more comfort in summer as well as in winter.

In 2016, the city council ordered another 27 light rail vehicles, which are in passenger service since 2019.