CapaCity and Citaro – two models working hand in hand
More than 260 units of the CapaCity model have already been sold. In addition to Istanbul, these extra-long articulated buses are in service in Stuttgart, Tübingen and Osnabrück. The German operators have however preferred to give a standardized appearance to their fleets, and opted for the capacity-related advantages of this XXL bus equipped with the current Citaro bus body. This also works well the other way round: the Citaro articulated buses for the BusWay system in Nantes were ordered with an "outfit" whose exclusive design comes very close to the CapaCity. Solutions such as this once again demonstrate the flexibility made possible by the modular concept of the Citaro series.
Metrobus Istanbul – facts and figures
- The Metrobus line was taken into service in September 2007
- It is operated by the transport company IETT
- It has an overall length of currently 40.6 km. The first two sections of the BRT line ran between the suburb of Avcilar in north-western Istanbul and Zincirlikuyu in the city centre, and the route was extended to include the Zincirlikuyu – Sögütlücesme connection (on the Asian side of the city) in 2009 as a result of high customer acceptance
- The route has no junctions, with a dedicated bus lane in each direction
- All the 250 CapaCity buses ordered have now been delivered
- At peak times the buses run every 30 seconds
- Around 750,000 passengers are carried every day
- The average speed incl. stops is a fast 40 km/h
- The Metrobus has connections to other regular services at every station
- The ticketing system is linked to the Metrobus, subway, tram system, city buses, Dolmuş and ferry
Mercedes-Benz CapaCity: BRT System in Istanbul
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Daimler AG
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