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The Citadis is a low-floor tram built by Alstom in La Rochelle, France, and Barcelona, Spain. 1,140 Citadis are currently in use in 28 cities, among others: Bordeaux, Lyon, Montpellier, Orléans, the Paris area, and Barcelona, Dublin, Gdańsk, Katowice, Melbourne and Rotterdam outside France.

Citadis types

The Citadis family includes both partially low-floor and 100% low-floor trams, in versions with three, five, and seven sections.
The Citadis family comprises:

Citadis 202 - double articulated 100% low floor (Melbourne)
Citadis 301 - also three section but with 70% low floor (Orléans and Dublin) .
Citadis 302 - five carbody sections, 100% low floor (Lyon, Bordeaux, Paris T2, Valenciennes, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Murcia and Barcelona)
Citadis 402 - seven carbody sections, 100% low floor (Bordeaux, Grenoble, Paris T3)
Citadis 401 - five sections, 70% low floor (Montpellier and Dublin)
Citadis 403 - seven sections, with modified end bogie design (Strasbourg)
Regio-Citadis - three sections, 70% low floor (Kassel, Ridderkerk (connected to Zoetermeer and The Hague transportation systems), Salzgitter)
Citadis-Dualis - derived from the Citadis series and adapted both to tramway lines and regional railway tracks, it'll be operated by the SNCF (see below)

The 70% low-floor “Regio-Citadis” variant allows for tram-train operation, in which trams run also on mainline railway tracks; it's used in the German city Kassel, and has been delivered for The Hague. This train type are having possibillities of duo-powering (diesel/600 V DC, 600 V DC/1,5 kV 16 Hz or 600 V DC/Bioenergy/diesel).
   The Regio-Citadis model has now been superseded by “Citadis-Dualis”, redesigned to operate on the same lines as regional trains (on the TER (Transport express régional) network) and intended for running at up to 100 km/h (62 mph, compared to 70 km/h (43 mph) for the Citadis tram), and for stop spacings ranging from 0.5 km to 5 km (460 yds to 3.1 mi). 31 have been ordered (plus 169 on option ) by the SNCF at an average cost of €3·2 millions per car (about $4.94 millions or £2.5 millions) .
   Like most trams, Citadis vehicles are usually powered by overhead electric wires, but the trams in Bordeaux (and in the future Angers, Reims and Dubai) use the “Aps” (ground-level power supply), a third rail which is only powered while it's completely covered by a tram so that there's no risk of a person or animal coming into contact with a live rail. In outer areas, the trams switch to conventional overhead wires .
   Competitors to the Citadis include Bombardier Transportation's Flexity family (Outlook, Swift, Classic, and the Link tram-train), Siemens Combino and Avanto trams and TMK 2200 from Crotram.

Ordered Citadis trams

Argentina

Buenos Aires: Tranvía del Este . The service is provided by two Citadis 302 model trams, manufactured by the French company Alstom and granted under a free concession by the city of Mulhouse.

Australia

Melbourne: C class Melbourne tram, operated by Yarra Trams. Between 2008 and 2011, Melbourne is renting five of Mulhouse's Citadis 302 trams .

France

The Alstom Citadis has close to a monopoly in France, where all new trams are low-floored and almost all of them are Citadis trams.

Bordeaux: Tramway de Bordeaux

Grenoble: Tramway de Grenoble

Le Mans: Setram (Société anonyme d'économie mixte des transports en commun de l'agglomération mancelle)

Lyon: Tramway de Lyon

Montpellier: TaM (Transports de l'agglomération de Montpellier)

Mulhouse: Tramway de Mulhouse

Nice: Tramway de Nice

Orléans: SEMTAO (Société d'économie mixte des transports de l'agglomération orléanaise)

Paris: Tramway parisien (a branch of the RATP)

Strasbourg: Tramway de Strasbourg

Valenciennes: Tramway de Valenciennes

Reims: Tramway de Reims – Delivery to commence in October 2009

Ireland

Dublin: Luas

Netherlands

Rotterdam: RET (Rotterdamse Elektrische Tram)

Poland

Gdańsk: ZKM Gdańsk (Zakład Komunikacji Miejskiej w Gdańsku), ZTM (Zarząd Transportu Miejskiego w Gdańsku)

Katowice: Tramwaje Śląskie

Spain

Barcelona: Trambaix, Trambesòs

Madrid: Metro Ligero de Madrid

Tenerife: Tranvía Metro Tenerife

Murcia: Tranvimur

Tunisia

Tunis: Métro léger de Tunis / المترو الخفيف المدينة تونس

United Arab Emirates

Al Sufouh Tram (Ar.: ترام الصفوح) in Dubai is expected to have 25 Citadis 402. It will use APS. Phase 1 will open in April 2011 .Further Information

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