DETROIT (AP) -- Bombardier Transportation said Monday it has won a $1.44 billion contract with two partners to design and build a 15-mile monorail system extension in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Bombardier's share of the contract is $816 million.
The new line, called Expresso Tiradentes, is an extension of a current Sao Paulo Metro line and will be able to take 40,000 passengers per hour between Vila Prudente and Cidade Tiradentes, Bombardier said in a statement. The trip now takes nearly two hours, but the new line will reduce the time to about 50 minutes.
The line will have 17 stations and can carry 500,000 users per day, the company said in a statement. The first phase is expected to open in 2014, the company said.
Bombardier's contract includes 54 seven-car trains with automatic train control for driverless operation. The company also will do project management, engineering and testing of the new trains and signals.
Engineering, design and testing will be done at Bombardier's site in Kingston, Ontario. The first cars will be made in Pittsburgh, with later cars built in Hortolandia, Brazil, the company's statement said.
Bombardier Transportation is based in Berlin, Germany, while the parent company, Bombardier Inc., has its headquarters in Montreal.
