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Transportation 
The transportation market
By 2015 the Chinese railway system is expected to run 100,000 km.
The chief features of today’s transit market are:
• renewed interest in tramways in Europe;
• expanding subway networks in China;
• high speed train projects around the world;
• the “train-tram” concept.
• In personal transport we’re seeing a real upswing in electric cars and hybrid motors in full development.
Transporting human beings mean safety requirements are as stringent as they get. After-sales service is decisive and must be ensured for periods of at least 20 years.
Ferraz Shawmut is a partner for major OEMs in designing, bringing to manufacture and maintaining complete electrical engineering systems integrating protection components and power interconnection to meet a specific function.
Ferraz Shawmut is at their side over the long term thanks to:
• a combined global/local organization that is always close to the customer;
• expertise based on long experience;
• a highly specialized product offering made to measure around the fuse;
• reliability proven by a battery of extremely severe tests;
• contracts for after-sales service.
Rail:
• 750 V third rail current collector devices in subways;
• cooling systems;
• lightning arrestors on the roofs of train sets;
• axial earth return current units on high speed train bogies.
Automobile:
• special-purpose fuses for electric and hybrid vehicles.