BART awards MERMEC contract for track inspection vehicle

Written by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
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The vehicle MERMEC will build for BART will be based on the company’s ROGER 600 vehicle.
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Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) awarded MERMEC a contract to supply a track recording vehicle to be operated on 104 miles of rapid transit lines serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

On April 11, 2016, MERMEC was given “Notice to Proceed” with the design, furnishing and delivery of one Track Geometry Car, a project financed by the Federal Transit Administration. MERMEC says this is the first comprehensive inspection and measuring track recording car to be manufactured in the U.S. in accordance with the Buy American Act requirements.

A custom-designed track recording car will inspect and measure the 104 miles of heavy-rail rapid transit elevated and subway system that connects San Francisco with cities in the East Bay and suburbs in northern San Mateo County.

The Track Geometry Car will be a self-propelled broad-gauge vehicle derived from the MERMEC’s “ROGER MM 600” basic model. It will be equipped with several non-contact optoelectronics systems including the brand new “all-in-one” integrated track geometry, full rail profile and turnout geometry measuring system allowing data acquisition at zero-speed.

 

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