On May 11, 2023, China's first suspended aerial rail train, the Optics Valley Photon, departed for operation in Wuhan.

Empty rail is suspended monorail, which is a new mode of urban transportation with medium and low traffic volume, eco-environmental protection, green and low carbon. The train is suspended under the single-type track, and the ground traffic is moved to the air. It has the characteristics of less land occupation, low cost, and small turning radius.

At the entrance of the station, you can see that the security check and the ticket check are integrated, with functions such as metal detection, temperature detection, ticket processing, sound, light, and voice prompts. "This is a new technology and new equipment. It is the first case in China that the all-in-one security ticket inspection machine has been used in all stations of the Optics Valley Air Rail Line." said Wang Anjun, Director of Equipment Systems of Optics Valley Transportation Company.

It is reported that the Optics Valley Photonics air-rail train runs at a maximum speed of 60 kilometers per hour, and the whole journey takes about 30 minutes. In the initial stage, it adopts 2-car marshalling, which can accommodate more than 220 people at most. At the same time, it can be flexibly marshalled between 2-6 carriages to meet the transportation needs of different passenger flows.

According to Qian Kang, project manager of China Railway Eleventh Bureau’s Optics Valley Air Rail Project, the first phase of the Optics Valley Air Rail project has a total length of about 10.5 kilometers and 6 stations. The 6 major stations have “one station, one scene” and are integrated with the surrounding natural landscape. One.

The entire line of Optics Valley Air Rail is equipped with fully automatic driverless, face recognition, and intelligent command and dispatch systems. It has the function of GOA3 fully automatic driverless driver. The whole process is automatically controlled, no manual operation is required, and the drivers and passengers only need to follow the car to deal with emergencies. The train adopts an integrated sightseeing design, taking advantage of the three-dimensional transportation in the air, and set up transparent viewing windows in some areas of the carriage floor. The whole train has a 270° viewing function, which can bring a wonderful ride experience to passengers.

In addition, Optics Valley Empty Rail uses a flywheel energy storage system to recover and store the excess energy generated when the train brakes, which can not only be used to support the system network voltage, but also release the stored energy in scenarios where the current demand for train starting and acceleration increases. , which can save 15% of traction energy consumption. Editor / Xie Li