SYSTRA Ardanuy has won two contracts for the future Camp de Tarragona tramway in Catalonia. These two complementary assignments will support the delivery and commissioning of the first phase of the new network, which will be operated by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya, the Catalan railway operator.
Located in southern Catalonia, Camp de Tarragona is one of the region’s major urban and tourist areas. The future tramway will improve connections between several key local hubs and provide a new sustainable mobility solution. Its first phase, approximately 14 km long, will connect Cambrils Centre to Vila-seca Estació, via Salou, notably reusing part of the former coastal railway corridor.
The first contract, carried out in consortium with TYPSA, covers construction management. SYSTRA will contribute to supervising the proper execution of the works, monitoring the schedule, coordinating with ADIF, municipalities and utility companies, and overseeing civil, railway and tramway works through testing and final validation.
The second contract, carried out in consortium with META, part of Quadrante, concerns Systems Integration Technical Assistance. This assignment aims to ensure that all tramway subsystems, including infrastructure, power, signalling, telecommunications, passenger equipment, safety and operations, work together coherently ahead of commercial service.
“The Camp de Tarragona tramway is a structuring project for mobility in southern Catalonia. Its success will rely on the ability to coordinate complex works, sensitive railway interfaces and the integration of all systems required for operation. These two contracts illustrate SYSTRA’s added value on tramway projects where an end-to-end vision, from works through to commissioning,” said Joan Serrano, Vice-President of SYSTRA Ibérica.
The project involves significant technical and urban complexity. The works will be delivered in a constrained environment, with major utility diversions, interventions beneath the AP-7 motorway and existing railway lines, and the implementation of a full tramway system: slab track, electrification, overhead contact line, signalling, supervision, passenger information and communications.
These new contracts build on SYSTRA Ardanuy’s previous involvement in the project, having carried out the preliminary studies between 2016 and 2018, when the scheme was still being developed as a tram-train before evolving into a full tramway system.
Source: SYSTRA