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  13.07.2020
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A visit to Aselsan by Metro Istanbul

General Manager of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) Affiliate Metro Istanbul, Ozgur Soy, visited Director of Aselsan Rail Systems, Gunay Simsek.
General Manager of Turkey's largest urban rail operator Metro Istanbul, Ozgur Soy, visited Aselsan and met with the Director of Aselsan Rail Systems, Gunay Simsek and Security, Energy and Healthcare Sector President İbrahim Bekar. Participants exchanged their ideas on the collaboration between Metro Istanbul and Aselsan on the domestic signalisation project within the context of M1 capacity expansion during the meeting and mutual information was given about new projects in the field of rail systems and domestic products in defence technologies. Gunay Simsek presented a plaque at the end of the meeting and thanked General Manager Ozgur Soy for his visit.

Passenger capacity will increase by % 70...
Metro Istanbul has started capacity increase and improvement works at the stations for Halkali extension, which is the second stage of M1A Yenikapi - Ataturk Airport, M1B Yenikapi - Kirazli Metro Line. Construction works continue to extend the platform lengths of the stations in the M1A section of the line also to improve and increase access opportunities in some stations and to arrange the platform areas in accordance with the Screen Door Systems within the framework of the work.
When the platform extension works at the stations are completed, it will contribute a %25 increase in station capacity. A %70 increase in the hourly passenger capacity of the line is planned by 2021 with this physical capacity increase, renewed signalling system and unattended vehicles. The company collaborated with IİSBAK, TUBITAK BILGEM and Aselsan on “Domestic and National, Unattended and Fully Automated Train Control Signalling System”.

Foreign dependency will be eliminated...
Apart from the contract price, the works that institutions provide financial support with their own resources can be quickly adapted to new metro lines since they are developed with modular architecture. Within the scope of the project, Communication Based Metro Signalling Technology, which is owned by only 5-6 companies in the world, will be developed with completely domestic opportunities.
As the advanced technological product that meets operational needs at the highest level, the signalisation system is expected to provide high sales potential in the domestic market. Foreign dependency on the signalisation systems, which are an integral part of the investments of 5,000 metro vehicles with a thousand kilometres long metro lines planned by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality for the coming years, will be eliminated this way.

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