Key facts
- Native name
- Metropolitana di Torino
- Locale
- Turin , Piedmont , Italy
- Transit type
- Rapid transit
- Daily ridership
- 155,000
- Annual ridership
- 42.5 million (2018)
- Began operation
- February 4, 2006 ; 20 years ago ( 2006-02-04 )
- Operator s
- Gruppo Torinese Trasporti (GTT)
- Number of vehicles
- 58 (2009)
- Train length
- 52 m (171 ft)
- Headway
- 2 minutes
- System length
- 15.1 km (9 mi 31 ch)
- Track gauge
- 1,620 mm (5 ft 4 in)
- Electrification
- 750 V DC third rail
- Average speed
- 33 km/h (21 mph)
- Top speed
- 80 km/h (50 mph)
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
UrbanRail.Net > Europe > Italy > TURIN Metro - Metropolitana di Torino (VAL)
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Metropolitana di Torino
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Turin
- Operator
- Gruppo Torinese Trasporti
- Based on
- Véhicule Automatique Léger
- Image
- Metropolitana Torino 01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Turin metro
- Commons gallery
- Turin Metro
- topic's main category
- Category:Turin Metro
- inception
- 2006-00-00
- track gauge
- standard-gauge railway
- patronage
- 42500000
- date of official opening
- 2006-00-00
- described at URL
- www.urbanrail.net/eu/it/tor/torino.htm
- has cause
- 2006 Winter Olympics
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Encyclopedic overview
The Turin Metro (Italian: Metropolitana di Torino) is the modern driverless VAL rapid transit system serving Turin. It is operated by Gruppo Torinese Trasporti (GTT), a public company controlled by the municipality of Turin. The system comprises one 15.1-kilometre (9 mi 31 ch) line with 23 stations connecting Fermi station in Collegno with Piazza Bengasi in Turin, near the border with the municipality of Moncalieri.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turin Metro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.