The Copenhagen Metro awards a major assignment for the new metro line to the joint venture Ramboll-SYSTRA

The assignment includes technical advice on requirements specification for trains, rail infrastructure and the technical subsystems and interfaces to the civil engineering part of the project. In addition, there will be advice on the operation and maintenance of the metro. The consultant is thus helping to create the basis for a good passenger experience at the opening of the M5.

"We are excited to have the consultants on board the project and look forward to a close collaboration to develop the systems and operations for the future metro line in the capital. Ramboll SYSTRA JV's insight into the complexity of the task gives us great confidence that together we will be able to fulfill this important social task for the benefit of the metropolitan area," says Russell Saltmarsh, Project Director at the Copenhagen Metro.

Ramboll and SYSTRA are also looking forward to the collaboration. "It is a great pleasure for us to be involved in developing a transportation system that is in such high demand among Danes as the metro. At the same time, the Copenhagen Metro's ambitions to develop more sustainable transport solutions match very well with Ramboll's ambition to make a significant contribution to developing the sustainable transport of the future. We very much look forward to working together to connect the city with a mode of transportation that is both reliable and even more sustainable than the existing metro lines," says Peter Aarkrog, Project Director at Ramboll.

"We are proud that SYSTRA, together with Ramboll and Gottlieb Paludan Architects as sub-consultants, have been chosen as consultants on the transportation system for the new M5 line for Copenhagen Metro. SYSTRA has been involved in one out of two driverless metros in the world and on all metro lines in Denmark, so we are pleased to be able to contribute our expertise to the M5 transportation system. Our project team has worked on iconic projects such as the Grand Paris Express, Dubai Metro and Toulouse Metro, and we look forward to bringing this experience into play to ensure another efficient, sustainable and future-proof transportation system for Copenhagen", says Johan Stranddorf, Project Director at SYSTRA.

• Metro line M5 is a new stand-alone metro line with up to 10 stations to be built from either the south or north.
• The new M5 metro line will provide metro access to both existing urban areas and to new districts in the East Port. The southern solution can also help solve the capacity challenge of the current metro across the harbor.
• The Copenhagen Metro has an ambition to reduce the climate impact of new metro lines, including the M5, by 50% compared to previous lines. At the same time, there must be a focus on the customer experience, the metro's contribution to the city, including social sustainability, as well as the work with safety and working environment in both construction and operation.