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Zaragoza Tram
wins Best Urban
lntegration prize
The most important international award in its category
Line 1 of the Zaragoza Tramway, which was
designed and is being built by a joint ven-
ture between FCC and ACCIONA, has won
first prize for Best Urban Integration this
year from the International Association of
Public Transport.
The International Association of Public
Transport (UITP) is a platform for world-
wide cooperation, business development
and the sharing of knowledge. It has 3,400
members from 92 countries. The UITP is
the global defender of public transport and
sustainable mobility and promotes innova-
tion in the public transport sector.
The European panel of judges picked the
Zaragoza tramway because it is an effec-
tive, comfortable, cutting-edge project that
connects the city’s main points of social,
economic and cultural interest. The line is
12.8 kilometres long and runs south/north
through the city centre. The award stresses
the new culture of mobility that the tramway
entails, along with the urban renovation
the tramway has spurred in Zaragoza, with
the strategic development and launching
of connections with other means of public
transport, the implementation of a bicycle
path parallel to the tram tracks, transfer no-
des with the bus and local rail systems and
intermodal parking facilities.
This transport solution is designed to cover
the city in record time quickly, quietly and
safely. Also, it features the technological
breakthroughs of Urbos 3, manufactured
by CAF, making Zaragoza’s an example for
other tramways throughout the world.
The second phase of Line 1 (Gran Vía to
Parque de Goya), in which 340 million
Euros will be invested, will complete the
ambitious project to make the tram the
city’s backbone and will create Zaragoza’s
biggest pedestrians-only zone.
The tram makes life easier for more than
40,000 people who ride it every day. Fore-
casts call for 108,000 passengers when the
entire line has been completed. Trams run
as often as one every five minutes, from five
o’clock in the morning until midnight, and
their average commercial speed is 20 km/
hour.
FCC is currently involved in the second
phase of the Zaragoza tram as well as the
62.5 million Euro contract, awarded in May
2011, for the Olsztyn (Poland) tram line,
stretching over 11.5 kilometres and inclu-
ding 19 stops.
Built by FCC