2016 Forum on the Development of China’s Modern Tram Industry & Symposium on Technical Standard for Modern Tram Engineering Convenes Successfully

From November 9 to 10, the 2016 Forum on the Development of China’s Modern Tram Industry & Symposium on Technical Standard for Modern Tram Engineering was held successfully in Beijing. The meeting was sponsored and organized by Urban Rail Transit Technical Work Committee of China Civil Engineering Society, World Railway Development and Research Society, Modern Transportation Innovation League, and Beijing Urban Construction Design & Development Group Co., Limited. More than 200 specialists and scholars from tram research, design, investment, project execution, construction, operation and equipment manufacturing units across the nation attended the meeting, where they discussed together and exchanged views over matters concerning planning and development of the modern tram industry and related technology and equipment, jointly interpreted the tram technical standard, and partook tram engineering cases. The forum was aimed at smoothly facilitating the process of constructing the modern tram industry in all cities and advancing the sustainable and sound development of the modern tram industry in China.

Wang Hanjun, Chairman of Urban Rail Transit Technical Work Committee of China Civil Engineering Society and General Manager of Beijing Urban Construction Design & Development Group Co., Limited, was the first to address the meeting on behalf of the sponsors. Wang Hanjun pointed out that currently the urban rail transit industry in China assumes a new pattern of multi-system, coordinated development, and that, with the advantages of low costs, short construction period and fast approval, the modern tram sector has become an integral part of the urban railway system, having broad prospects for further development. He said that, while the modern tram sector develops rapidly, the lack of unified technical standard in the market has resulted in a wide variety of core equipment such as the vehicles and controlling devices, and caused wide differences in investment, becoming a major stumbling block against the development of the modern tram industry. For this reason, with Beijing Urban Construction Design & Development Group Co., Limited, Shenyang Hunnan Modern Tramway, CRRC Construction Engineering Co., Ltd., and other units in Wuhan, Suzhou and Shanghai as co-editors, the Urban Rail Transit Technical Work Committee of China Civil Engineering Society served as the bellwether to have compiled the Technical Standard for Modern Tram Engineering.

During the meeting, Feng Aijun, UCD’s Deputy Chief Engineer and Secretary-General of Urban Rail Transit Technical Work Committee of China Civil Engineering Society, made a general survey of the Technical Standard for Modern Tram Engineering, and gave an introduction to the background and process of formulating the standard as well as the major parts of the standard. Liao Qiulin, manager of Beijing Urban Construction Metro Engineering Co., Ltd., introduced the features of the demonstration project at Chengyang District and things about the construction of the project. Wu Zhengzhong, Chief Engineer of Beijing Urban Construction Intelligent Control Technology Co., Ltd., introduced the course of development and trends of the modern tram intelligent control system as well as features of the intelligent control system designed and manufactured by the intelligent control company.

On November 10, relevant specialists made an authoritative interpretation of all the integral parts of the Technical Standard for Modern Tram Engineering and, particularly, the interpretation of the network planning, operation and management, vehicles, construction management and design technologies became the focus of attention among the specialists at the meeting. UCD’s Vehicle Department Director Guo Zekuo interpreted the part of vehicles of the Technical Standard for Modern Tram Engineering from five aspects, and introduced to the participants the features of the trams produced by the major domestic manufacturers. UCD’s Senior Engineer Qiu Lili drew on experiences of the foreign tram industry and practices going on in China to interpret the technical requirements on the design of trams.