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How do you serve 495 million Europeans? Vectron. The locomotive thats forging new paths.
Creating Corridors
Creating Corridors
With liberalized markets, widely varying national requirements and changing customer needs, today rail-based passen ger and freight transportation has to be more flexible than ever. New paths are needed both in terms of ideas and geography.
Vectron the new locomotives for those who want to and have to meet Europes current and future requirements and transportation needs. Vectron was developed based on information from interviews with many different operators, and on experience gained from more than 1,600 Eurosprinters and Eurorunners in operation. Ensured viability into the future, investment security, environmental compatibility and fungibility were most important to operators. Vectron responds to these needs by combining proven strengths with future-oriented strategies and innovations. Come aboard and discover the locomotive that forges new paths to ensure a successful future for your freight, regional or intercity traffic.
Tomorrow is here.
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Gear up for the future now. With an advanced locomotive that is as ready for long-term perspectives as it is for changing markets and sudden unforeseen events. Your investment decisions today will determine your business success tomorrow.
Converging networks
Longer trains
Europe is changing. The world of operators is changing. Those who hope to succeed in the face of increasingly intense market pressures must be able to respond quickly and flexibly in the future. Get on the right track today to ensure your competitive edge tomorrow.
Revised standards
Tomorrow is here.
Move ahead.
Planning and investments are secure with Vectron.
Innovations with great future potential require one thing above all: a lot of experience. Vectron is based on 130 years of comprehensive expertise in the development, production and operation of rolling stock. Thats why Vectron makes no compromises when it comes to modularity. You invest only in what you truly need, so you have the freedom to deal with any situation in your locomotive operations. Vectron focuses on whats most important your success. Starting with a cost-effective basic version, you can choose from a broad range of operator-oriented options. A high level of parts commonality ensures uniform operability and control, process standardization and optimized life-cycle costs. Vectron is like your business individual, highly constant, and yet variable thanks to maximum flexibility to minimize risks, combined with an optimized cost-benefit ratio. Top performance and excellent utilization of tractive power ensure your competitive edge. The sophisticated vehicle design already reflects the planning status of future TSI regulations and can adapt to changing standards. Reduced pollutant and noise emissions, lower energy consumption, and high recyclability are standard features. This keeps you in step with the times, and allows you to position yourself as a s ustainable mobility provider.
Europe is changing. The world of operators is changing. Those who hope to succeed in the face of increasingly intense market pressures must be able to respond quickly and flexibly in the future. Get on the right track today to ensure your competitive edge tomorrow.
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Growing challenges.
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Take advantage of current and future business opportunities with a locomotive that perfectly matches your traffic requirements. Vectron combines efficiency with adaptability through out the entire life cycle. Its advanced design and concept, which covers everything including individual financing solutions, ensure that even customized national variants and small batch production are economical.
Cross-border traffic
Faster decisions
The volume of traffic in Europe is growing. The flow of freight and rail applications are changing as well. Meeting future traffic needs will mean being able to specialize quickly and cost-effectively.
Heavier traffic
Changing applications
Growing challenges.
The volume of traffic in Europe is growing. The flow of freight and rail applications are changing as well. Meeting future traffic needs will mean being able to specialize quickly and cost-effectively.
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Cross borders with no limits. Vectron gives you the freedom to choose the routes you want to serve. The new interoperable Vectron locomotives over come technical barriers and support cross-border rail connections whenever required by your business. Vectron can be used on all continental European corridors.
The importance of international traffic on the main European corridors is increasing. To efficiently handle the flow of goods and freight within the European Union, operators must be able to serve different routes across national borders.
The importance of international traffic on the main European corridors is increasing. To efficiently handle the flow of goods and freight within the European Union, operators must be able to serve different routes across national borders.
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Efficiency counts everywhere in Europe. As an operator, you have to completely focus on your transport business. To do so, you not only need easy-to-maintain vehicles, but an expert service partner. When it comes to maximum availability and reliability for your vehicles, service concepts must be precisely tailored to your r equirements to ensure long timeframes between mandatory maintenance intervals, fast implementation of repair work at flexibly defined maintenance locations, or reliable spare parts supply.
Optimally planable operations require maximum availability, which can only be ensured through service and maintenance precisely tailored to your needs. After all, putting great things in motion means having reliable vehicles available at all times.
Keep moving.
Vectron Railcover offers tailored service.
With our individually tailored s ervices, well help you make your business plans a reality. Our sophisticated Vectron Railcover service concept ensures maximum availability and lower costs anywhere in Europe. You can select from numerous perfectly designed service modules, and put together a service package precisely in line with your needs. Youll be able to optimize travel times for your Vectron locomotives. A Europe-wide network of workshops allows preventive maintenance even far from the home depot. Necessary spare parts will reach you in time, ensuring that all work can be performed rapidly. You get greater flexibility for your o perations and avoid an investment in sparepart stock. And if an incident should occur at some point no matter where or when rapid help is available. A help desk is standing by around the clock to work out the best possible solution for you. It will then be implemented by mobile service technicians or by a Siemens or other authorized workshop.
Optimally planable operations require maximum availability, which can only be ensured through service and maintenance precisely tailored to your needs. After all, putting great things in motion means having reliable vehicles available at all times.
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Siemens AG Infrastructure & Cities Sector Rail Systems Division Nonnendammallee 101 13629 Berlin, Germany locomotives.mobility@siemens.com
Siemens AG 2012 Printed in Germany HL 1206 7102 176816 DB 07121.0 Dispo 21715 c4bs 1423 Order no.: A19100-V620-B119-V3-7600
Vectron, Eurosprinter, Eurorunner and Railcover are registered trademarks of Siemens AG. The information in this document contains general descriptions of the technical options available, which do not have to be present in all individual cases. The required features should therefore be specied in each individual case at the time of closing the contract.
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