New Taipei Metro Circular Line EMU

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New Taipei Metro Circular Line EMU
A Circular line train at Jingan station
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In service	2020–present
Manufacturer	Hitachi Rail Italy and Taiwan Rolling Stock Company
Assembly	Hsinchu
Built at	Reggio Calabria, Italy
Family name	Driverless Metro
Constructed	2016–2018
Entered service	31 January 2020
Number built	68 carriages (17 sets)
Number in service	68 carriages (17 sets)
Formation	4-car sets (A–C–D–B)
Fleet numbers	101–117
Capacity	650
Operators	Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation
Depots	North, South
Lines served	Add→{{rail-interchange}} Circular line
Specifications
Car body construction	Aluminium
Train length	68.43 m (224 ft 6 in)
Car length	17,455 mm (57 ft 3.2 in) (A/B) 16.76 m (55 ft 0 in) (C/D)
Width	2.65 m (8 ft 8 in)
Height	3.6 m (11 ft 10 in)
Doors	2 × 3 per car
Wheel diameter	710–660 mm (28–26 in) (new–worn)
Wheelbase	2 m (6 ft 7 in)
Maximum speed	90 km/h (56 mph) (design) 80 km/h (50 mph) (service)
Weight	117 t (115 long tons; 129 short tons)
Traction system	Hitachi Rail Italy IGBT–VVVF
Traction motors	16 × Hitachi Rail Italy MTA-A4-85V 102 kW (137 hp) 3-phase AC induction motor
Power output	1,632 kW (2,189 hp)
Acceleration	1.2 m/s2 (3.9 ft/s2)
Deceleration	1 m/s2 (3.3 ft/s2) (service) 1.3 m/s2 (4.3 ft/s2) (emergency)
Electric system(s)	750 V DC third rail
Current collector(s)	Contact shoe
UIC classification	Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′
Braking system(s)	Regenerative
Safety system(s)	Moving block CBTC ATC under ATO GoA 4 (UTO), with subsystems of ATP, ATS and CBI Original: Hitachi Rail STS[1] Future upgrade: Alstom Urbalis 400
Coupling system	Scharfenberg
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge

The New Taipei Metro Circular Line EMU is a medium-capacity train operating on Taipei Metro's Circular line. A total of 17 4-car trains were manufactured by Hitachi Rail Italy (formerly AnsaldoBreda)^[2] in Reggio Calabria, then shipped to Hsinchu for final assembly at Taiwan Rolling Stock Company (TRSC). This is the second time Taiwan has purchased trains made in Italy after Taiwan Railways' EMU300 series, built by Socimi.

This was Taipei Metro's third medium-capacity train and New Taipei Metro's first, and officially entered service with the opening of the first phase of the Circular line on 31 January 2020.