Testing underway before DTL1 opens

Testing underway before DTL1 opens

    POSTED: 09 Aug 2013 5:44 PM
  
Downtown Line Stage 1, which connects Chinatown to Bugis directly, will open by the end of the year. Testing of the train system is underway to ensure smooth travel.

SINGAPORE: Downtown Line Stage 1, which connects Chinatown to Bugis directly, will open by the end of the year.

Testing of the train system is underway to ensure smooth travel.

Basic functions of the train system are tested.

These include emergency call buttons, route map displays, train stopping accuracy as well as the live announcement system.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has to complete about 800 test cases.

So far, about 50% of the tests have been completed.

LTA has moved on from testing the core functions of the trains to scenario testing.

LTA's deputy director (rolling stock and depot equipment), Chia Choon Poh, said: "The team has been conducting tests from the operations control centre down to each individual train for the last eight months to test the various functions of the train while in motion. What we are doing now is the carousel train testing, where we replicate normal train operations."

- CNA/ir

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