The tram of the future

In 1885, passengers and onlookers celebrated as the first tram traversed the Belgian coast from Ostend and Nieuwpoort. In 1912, the steam powered tram was upgraded to run on electricity. There was renewed cause for celebration when the tramway recently received another major upgrade after more than a century. The modernization project was completed in cooperation between Prague-based Elektroline and Austrian automation specialist B&R.

As the longest tramline in the world, "The Coastal Tram" travels 68 kilometers along the Belgian coast between the municipalities of De Panne and Knokke-Heist at the country's borders with France and the Netherlands, respectively. "There are a lot of interesting things about The Coastal Tram," says Mikuláš Burgr, head of implementation and project engineering for tram control systems at Elektroline. "In the summer season, for example, the tram is used so heavily that they have to borrow tram cars from Ghent and Antwerp."

All traffic is managed from a control room located nearly 30 kilometers away in Bruges. Dispatchers can view the entire tramline, including footage from its countless surveillance cameras, on control room monitors or on tablets and other mobile devices.

Safety first

System integrator Elektroline was tasked with modernizing The Coastal Tram. "Managers of the transportation company had a clear goal for the modernization project: to automate tram traffic in a way that is both safe and state-of-the-art," says Burgr. "To implement the safety technology and the demanding HMI requirements, we selected B&R – a decision based on the positive experiences we've had working with them on other projects. The B&R system makes it easy to develop the software for the demanding safety requirements in accordance with SIL 3."



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Mikuláš Burgr

Head of project engineering for tram control systems, Elektroline
"To implement the safety technology and the demanding HMI requirements, we selected B&R – a decision based on the positive experiences we've had working with them on other projects. The B&R system makes it easy to develop the software for the demanding safety requirements in accordance with SIL 3."




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