Taiwan, Republic of China

Delivery: 2002

So far there were no Light Rail Systems on the island of Taiwan.
In order to increase the quality of life in the densely populated western part of the island and to provide efficient connections to the new high-speed railway connection being built between Taipei, the capital, in the north and Kaoshing, a seaport, in the south, several LRV systems were planned.

Therefore, Taiwan´s Ministry of Economic Affairs has instructed the Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology to implement such development.

To begin with, a prototype vehicle in low-floor technology was manufactured in 2002 for extensive tests. This vehicle has a high degree of components manufactured locally and has mainly been developed by Taiwanese engineers. In close cooperation with Procasper International Corporation (PCI) Kiepe delivers the traction equipment and the on-board power supply system. After testing, the series production of the LRVs begins for the first built light rail systems.

The concept for the electrical vehicle equipment ensures high comfort for the passenger and reliable operation with minimum maintenance for the operator. The major factors for this concept are two roof equipment containers. Each of the two roof equipment container includes two interindependent traction inverters, one static on-board converter and the control units for the vehicle control system. The roof equipment containers are completely cabled and tested before they are mounted on the vehicle.

Each of the four fully selective power units consists functionally of an IGBT traction inverter with its own traction control, its own braking resistor and a motor-transmission unit. This concept offers high vehicle availability and attaches great importance to optimal redundancy of the systems.

The delivered drive components can be diagnosed by means of the WINDOWS-based Kiepe diagnostic system with extensive acquisition of operating and event data. The operating and event data collected in the vehicle can be read out and evaluated via a commercial standard PC (laptop). In this way fault finding is simplified considerably.

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