Rail route serving Beijing’s new airport starts trial operations
The
first phase of Beijing rail transit’s new airport line, as one of the support
facilities for the Beijing Daxing International Airport, launched trial
operation on Saturday, June 16. It’s scheduled to start official operations at
the end of September, according to media reports.
With a
top speed of 160 kilometers per hour, it only takes 19 minutes to make the
entire 41.4-kilometer trip, the Xinhua News Agency reported on June 16.
Hailed
as a “new milestone in Beijing’s rail transit program, the new airport line
adopts the world's highest standards of autonomous driving ... including the
whole process of automatic starting, self-inspection, operations and dormancy,”
according to Xinhua.
The
line, which is also an important factor in driving the coordinated development
of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the new airport line will accelerate
economic integration of the area, according to Xinhua, citing comments of Yang
Guangwu, chief engineer at the Beijing Major Projects Construction Headquarters
Office.
Located
in the center of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei triangle area, the Beijing Daxing
International Airport aims to boost economic vitality of areas surrounding Beijing
and cultivate a world-class airport cluster together with other airports in
Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province, according to People’s Daily in May.
The
airport’s terminal complex has a total area of 1.42 million square meters. The
airport aims to handle 72 million passenger trips and 2 million tons of cargo
and mail by 2025, with 620,000 aircraft movements by 2025, reported CCTV.com in
February.
Source:Global Times
On June 15, 2019, the first phase
of the "New Beluga" train of Beijing New Airport Line was air-tested.
The new line of the new airport line runs at a highest speed of 160 kilometers
per hour, and has a speed of 117 kilometers per hour. (Photo by Liu Xianguo from
People’s Daily Online)
Rail route serving Beijing’s new airport starts trial operations
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