engineering and technology group Sener will be responsible for the engineering and planning services of the corridor trolleybus Chalco-Santa Martapromoted by the State of Mexico and located in the capital of the country.
Specifically, the construction company La Peninsular has been awarded a contract that includes the design and commissioning of the corridor. This company has entrusted Sener with the engineering services that will allow it to execute the infrastructure, systems and construction of all the components.
Chalco-Santa Marta is the first electric corridor developed by the State of Mexico and Sener is the first engineering firm to work on this type of Projects for the entity.
The corridor will be operated by the Electric Transport System of Mexico City and will help improve the connection of the eastern zone of Mexico City with its metropolitan area, for the benefit of approximately 120,000 people. Likewise, the project is the first of its kind that directly connects both areas, avoiding pedestrian transfer times and distances in interchanges.
In this way, any passenger will be able to reach the central communication arteries of Mexico City without walking long distances or using other transportation systems.
Time reduction
The corridor will improve the existing public transport alternatives, offering a safer and more reliable system. It is estimated that the current travel time in this section is around two hours: with the integration of the Chalco-Santa Marta corridor, this time will be reduced to approximately 35 minutes, with a trolleybus frequency of just over 1 minute.
Sener will provide technical advice, planning and design for the engineering services for the execution of the corridor, which includes a fleet of 120 articulated trolleybuses, with a capacity for 142 passengers each, a track length of more than 18 kilometers and 15 stations spaced between yes for about 1.5 kilometers.
The road includes two types of structure, viaduct (7.5 kilometers, with 220 reinforced concrete columns) and on the surface, while the stations are of various types, depending on their urban location. There will be three at the viaduct level, four in a confined lane on Federal Highway 150D (Mexico-Puebla Highway), six in the immediate vicinity of the urban area of the municipalities of Chalco de Díaz and Valle de Chalco and two at the ends of the corridor .
Sener has developed more than 70 efficient, safe, sustainable and integrated transport systems, such as metro lines (lines 1, 6 and 9 of Panama, São Paulo and Barcelona, respectively, or the Riyadh metro in Saudi Arabia), metro light (Porto, Oran and Edinburgh, among others) or monorail (Cairo, Salvador de Bahía), among others.
The architect engineer of Sener in Mexico and responsible for the project, Daniel Rodríguez Mendoza, has indicated that the Chalco-Santa Marta corridor will shorten distances and “improve the quality of life” of the inhabitants of the State of Mexico, who will have a transport system “reliable, safe and non-polluting” public.
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