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Sky's the Limit

About Skyrail Benefits Proven Technology
About Skyrail
SKYRAIL Expand

BYD’s SkyRail™ is a fully integrated, driverless, state-of-the-art straddle type monorail system that incorporates all of the features needed for rigorous line-haul urban transit applications.

SKYSHUTTLE Expand

SkyShuttle is BYD’s battery powered automated people mover technology. With no guideway electrification and proven lightweight reliable vehicles, SkyShuttle provides owners with the lowest cost, most flexible, self-propelled people mover in the industry.

ABOUT BYD Transit Solutions LLC

BYD Transit Solutions LLC. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BYD Company Limited.

BYD Transit Solutions was established for the primary purpose of implementing and operating BYD SkyRail and SkyShuttle systems in North America. Its performance is backed and guaranteed by the parent company.

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Benefits
Skyrail Expand

BYD’s SkyRail™ is a fully integrated, driverless, state-of-the-art straddle type monorail system that incorporates all of the features needed for rigorous line-haul urban transit applications.

Benefits

Safety, fast and low-impact construction, lower operating costs, and high-capacity and transit grade, reliable switching are some of the
benefits of SkyRail. The elevated fixed guideway means there are no at-grade passenger or vehicle collisions. SkyRail can be constructed far faster, with far less impact and less costly than other comparable urban transist systems, and also costs significantly less to operate and maintain. SkyRail can move up to 19,000 people per hour per direction (at the U.S. standee level) with trains operating at 2-minute headways.

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Proven Technology
SKYRAIL Expand

BYD’s SkyRail™ is a fully integrated, driverless, state-of-the-art straddle type monorail system that incorporates all of the features needed for rigorous line-haul urban transit applications.

SKYSHUTTLE Expand

SkyShuttle is BYD’s battery powered automated people mover technology. With no guideway electrification and proven lightweight reliable vehicles, SkyShuttle provides owners with the lowest cost, most flexible, self-propelled people mover in the industry.

PROVEN TECHNOLOGY

BYD unveiled SkyRail in 2016 following a four-year development period, tens of thousands of hours of high-level engineering progress, and hundreds of millions of dollars of research and development. BYD’s holistic approach to the technology has not only been applied to the monorail trains – it has included all of the major elements of what is arguably the world’s most fully integrated urban transit technology. Straddle type monorail technology has been incrementally improved and modernized for more than 60 years, to the point where it now has been and is being built in many of the world’s largest cities. SkyRail is built with transit grade components throughout, including the guide beam switches. BYD has developed or improved six types of switches that can be used in a variety of routing situations to improve operational flexibility while remaining high reliability, with operational availability greater than 99.97%.

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EQUITY INVESTMENT & TEAMING Expand

BYD forms teams for each project that include highly experienced design/build construction firms, and where applicable, equity investment partners. BYD and its teaming partners invest equity and assist in arranging long term financing for private/public partnership (P3) projects.

VEHICLES & SYSTEMS Expand

SkyRail is a fully integrated technology, where the guide beams both support and guide the vehicles, and the vehicles and system-wide elements fit together uniquely. Accordingly, BYD designs, manufactures and procures, and installs and tests, the vehicles as well as the train control and communications, traction power distribution, fare collection, and guideway switch systems, all under a fixed price contract.

DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (DBE) PARTICIPATION Expand

BYD and our partners fully commit to meet or exceed requirements for DBE participation through proactive outreach and mentoring for specific and meaningful work performed by
minority, woman, and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises; as well as meeting or exceeding requirements for local and small business enterprise participation.

BUY AMERICA & US MANUFACTURING Expand

As evidenced by meeting or exceeding Buy America requirements with our battery-electric bus and truck production
program, BYD is committed to doing the same with our SkyRail production — by establishing a similar American supply chain and producing the rolling stock in the United States.

SYSTEM INTEGRATION, TESTING & COMMISSIONING Expand

BYD provides a single point of responsibility for system performance, both initially and through the operations and maintenance period. We do this by providing comprehensive system integration, testing and commissioning, system safety certification, and system start-up through BYD and our team of North American advisors and consultants.

LONG TERM OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE (O&M) Expand

BYD is able to take responsibility for long-term system performance because we not only supply complete, fully integrated systems, we also form and lead the O&M organizations required for P3 and Design-Build-Operate-Maintain (DBOM) projects.

DIVERSITY OF THE WORKFORCE Expand

BYD is proud of the composition of our North American workforce, which is led by women and multi-ethnic professionals. As we continue to expand our presence, we are committed to further expand that diversity. For example, the workforce at our half-million square foot manufacturing facility in Lancaster, Los Angeles County, is fully unionized in partnership with the SMART union, and is comprised of approximately 85% people of color.

Skyrail Projects Expand

Following release of SkyRail technology for urban applications in 2016, BYD already has been awarded seven SkyRail projects: two of which are in full operation, three of which have been
constructed, and two more of which are in construction.

EXISTING SKYRAIL PROJECTS

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SALVADOR, BRAZILBAHIA STATE SKYRAIL

BYD achieved a major milestone when the first Bahia SkyRail vehicle rolled off the BYD production line.

The SkyRail vehicle, with its autonomous driving technology and futuristic design, will be sent to Salvador, Brazil where it will operate on a 14.5-mile line linking the city’s central business district to São João Island.

SEPULVEDA CORRIDOR, CALIFORNIALA SKYRAIL EXPRESS

In addition, following an international competition, the LA SkyRail Express Team (which includes BYD as the technology supplier and lead O&M contractor) has been awarded a Pre-Development Agreement contract by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) for the 20-mile long, multi-billion dollar, Sepulveda Corridor project, which LA Metro is proposing to implement as a P3 undertaking.

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