| Lingang Medium Transport Volume | |||
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 Two CRRC DRT vehicles at Feidu Road stop in 2023. Note that there are no physical tracks on the roadway. | |||
| Overview | |||
| Native name | Chinese: 临港新片区中运量系统 | ||
| Area served | |||
| Transit type | Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit | ||
| Number of lines | 3 | ||
| Line number | Lines 1–3 | ||
| Number of stations | 26 | ||
| Operation | |||
| Began operation | 30 June 2021 | ||
| Operator(s) | Shanghai Lingang Public Transport Company (临港公交) | ||
| Technical | |||
| System length | 47.95 km (29.79 mi) | ||
| Top speed | 70 km/h (43 mph) | ||
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The Lingang Medium Transport Volume (Chinese: 临港中运量; pinyin: Lín gǎng zhōng yùn liàng), also known as Lingang Digital-rail Rapid Transit (Lingang DRT), is a rapid transit system operating within Lingang in Pudong District, Shanghai, China. It started operations on 30 June 2021, and is operated by the Shanghai Lingang Public Transport Company (Chinese: 上海临港公共交通有限公司, abbreviated in Chinese as 临港公交). The system operates as an Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART) system, but conventional bus rapid transit-specification buses currently run on the system too.
The Lingang DRT utilizes the intelligent digital rail transportation system (iDRT) developed by Shanghai Electric Group Intelligent Transportation Technology Co,Ltd , which uses magnetic markers encoded with digital information as virtual tracks and rubber-tired electric vehicles as vehicle carriers. It adopts the operation and control method of modern tramways, and has the advantages of orbitalization, digitalization and intelligentization.[1][2][3]
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