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Light Rail Line 3 and Its Urbalis CBTC Signalling

Revision 2026-08-24-guadalajara-baseline · effective 2026-08-24

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 8 claims and 2 source dossiers.

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of 8 claims mapped
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source dossiers
2
publication dates recorded
0
archives linked
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exact locators
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content captures hashed

Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-df6f8693993905b1 quantitative
Line 3 of Guadalajara's light rail opened in September 2020, running more than 21 kilometres and 18 stations, thirteen elevated and five underground, across Zapopan, Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The 2020 delivery release is dated 14 September 2020 and says the line 'covers nearly 21 kilometres, covering 18 stations through the cities Zapopan, Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque'. The 2025 statement gives the elevated and underground split: 'The line covers more than 21 kilometers with 18 stations, 13 elevated and 5 underground'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alstom, on delivering Line 3 (supplier)
  2. Alstom, on Line 3's fifth anniversary (supplier)
Claim 2 clm-674393c5907fa468 quantitative
Alstom delivered it under a 2014 turnkey contract covering the signalling, the high-voltage and traction substations and traffic control, all managed through its Urbalis 400 communications-based train control system
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The 2020 release: 'The 2014 contract included the supply of 18 Metropolis trains, communication systems, the high-voltage and traction substations, and traffic control systems based on Urbalis 400, Alstom's CBTC system.' The 2025 statement repeats the scope as a turnkey solution 'all managed through the Urbalis 400 CBTC (Communications Based Train Control) system'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alstom, on delivering Line 3 (supplier)
  2. Alstom, on Line 3's fifth anniversary (supplier)
Claim 3 clm-37a73a9393f8c25d quantitative
together with 18 Metropolis trains carrying video surveillance and passenger information
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Verbatim: 'The trains are equipped with air conditioning, video surveillance, and passenger information systems', following the count of 18 Metropolis trains in the same sentence about the 2014 contract.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alstom, on delivering Line 3 (supplier)
Claim 4 clm-555d414c947415b1 descriptive
SITEUR operates the line
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Verbatim: 'It will be operated by the local operator SITEUR (Sistema del Tren Electrico Urbano - Urban Electric Train System).'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alstom, on delivering Line 3 (supplier)
Claim 5 clm-4a164ef0cc22a9e0 quantitative
At delivery the supplier described the line as expected to carry around 230,000 passengers daily
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Verbatim: 'Alstom has officially delivered Line 3 of Guadalajara urban transportation network, a new line expected to carry around 230,000 passengers daily.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alstom, on delivering Line 3 (supplier)
Claim 6 clm-5e0bac5e6dba6596 quantitative
It opened during the pandemic carrying about 75,000 users a day, had carried more than 164 million people by its fourth anniversary, and reached daily counts of over 150,000
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The fifth-anniversary statement: the line 'opened in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, carrying about 75,000 users each' day, and ridership grew 'to more than 164 million people by its fourth anniversary, with daily counts reaching over 150,000 per day'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alstom, on Line 3's fifth anniversary (supplier)
Claim 7 clm-818adf229e8e0050 quantitative
The supplier's fifth-anniversary statement describes 233,000 passengers a day as what the system is designed to carry
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Verbatim: 'The system is designed to carry up to 233,000 passengers per day, and is ready for continued growth.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alstom, on Line 3's fifth anniversary (supplier)
Claim 8 clm-cd183842cec025f7 descriptive
no source read for this entry names a date on which trains began running with nobody aboard
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Both supplier statements describe the Urbalis 400 CBTC system and the rolling stock without saying who is in the cab, and neither gives a date for unattended operation. A statement about what the sources do not contain rather than about what they say.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alstom, on delivering Line 3 (supplier)
  2. Alstom, on Line 3's fifth anniversary (supplier)

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

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8
of 8 claims mapped
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source dossiers
2
publication dates recorded
0
archives linked
0
exact locators
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content captures hashed

Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Sistema de Tren Electrico Urbano (SITEUR)
Actor types
utility, national-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

2 source dossiers

Alstom, on delivering Line 3 (supplier) alstom.com · 6 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-08dab84bb8f307df
Publisher
Name not classified · alstom.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2020-09-14
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-24
Dossier created
2026-08-24
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The supplier's delivery announcement. Verbatim: 'Alstom has officially delivered Line 3 of Guadalajara urban transportation network, a new line expected to carry around 230,000 passengers daily', 'The line covers nearly 21 kilometres, covering 18 stations through the cities Zapopan, Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque', 'It will be operated by the local operator SITEUR', and 'traffic control systems based on Urbalis 400, Alstom's CBTC system'. A supplier account, so treated as the operator side of the record rather than an independent one.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Alstom, on Line 3's fifth anniversary (supplier) alstom.com · 5 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-2fc90c7e25a2e91b
Publisher
Name not classified · alstom.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-09-12
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-24
Dossier created
2026-08-24
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The supplier's fifth-anniversary statement. Verbatim: 'to more than 164 million people by its fourth anniversary, with daily counts reaching over 150,000 per day', 'The system is designed to carry up to 233,000 passengers per day', and 'The line covers more than 21 kilometers with 18 stations, 13 elevated and 5 underground'. Also gives the roughly 75,000 daily users at opening and the 2014 contract scope. Neither this statement nor the 2020 one says who is in the cab.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.