DENVER International Airport (DEN) in the United States has agreed to accept two rubber-tyred automated people mover (APM) trains free of charge from Alstom. The APM300R trains, worth $US 7.5m, have been added to a contract for the supply of 17 new trains for the airport’s 2km APM network, worth $US 64.1m.
The deal for the free trains was agreed following the late delivery of a previous order for 26 APM300R trains worth $US 78.9m that began to enter service last year. The trains were ordered in July 2018 from Bombardier Transportation, that was subsequently acquired by Alstom in 2021.
The 19 new trains will be manufactured at Alstom’s West Mifflin facility in Pennsylvania, and the contract also includes the decommissioning and removal from the system of 15 life-expired trains.
“The expansion of the Innovia APM fleet reinforces our shared goal to deliver reliable, efficient, and sustainable transportation that will support the airport’s extraordinary growth,” says Michael Keroullé, president of Alstom Americas.
DEN set an all-time passenger traffic record of 82.3 million in 2024 and is projected to exceed 100 million passengers per year by 2030.
Last November Alstom announced that it had signed a $US 246m seven-year maintenance and operations contract with the airport for the APM network, which came into effect on January 1 this year.
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