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The Metro Transit Type 1 LRVs is a used by the METRO Transit on the Minneapolis Light Rail.

Background to introduction
Metro Transit placed its order for light rail vehicles (LRVs) for the Blue Line with Bombardier in January 2001, originally for 18 cars, but increased in stages to 24 cars by early 2003. Bombardier constructed a full-scale, half-car mock-up of the Minneapolis version of its Flexity Swift design and this was placed on temporary display on a section of completed track on 5th Street, starting on October 30, 2002, to enable Metro Transit to give the city's residents a hands-on preview of the low-floor design several months before completion of the first actual rail cars.

The first light rail vehicle for the Blue Line arrived in Minneapolis in March 2003, and testing of it along the first completed section of the line was underway by June 2003. The line opened on June 26, 2004, with 14 of the 24 Bombardier Flexity Swift LRVs accepted and available for service by then, and all 24 had entered service by the end of the year.

In January 2007, the Metropolitan Council announced that three additional vehicles would be purchased, for a total of 27 LRVs on the line.

Overview
Blue Line only operation, total of 27 are enrolled. Numbered sequentially from 101 through 127. The markings on the ends of LRVs indicate the vehicle number and section. Vehicle numbers are also displayed (excluding the section letter) on the sides of the C section, on the doors of the operator cabs and on the roof of the vehicle.

Can carry 66 seated passengers and 180 standees.

Both ends of the vehicle have operator cabs, allowing trains of any length to be operated normally in either direction without the need to turn the train around.

Car body
The Flexity Swift vehicle is an articulated design with three car-body sections, referred to as the A, B and C sections. The pantograph is located on the B section of the vehicle. The articulated vehicles use a 70% low-floor design, are 94 ft (29 m) long.

Traction equipment
The traction system is a IGBT-VVVF control, and it is 1C2M type. The control unit and the auxiliary power unit are integrated as a C-PCU, and are installed on the roof one for each of A sections and B sections.

The traction motor adopted a totally-enclosed outer fan cooling type three-phase induction motor. The drive system is a quill drive system, and the traction motor is arranged parallel to the axle.

The control unit, traction motor, and auxiliary power unit are supplied by Toshiba.

Specifics (outside template)

 * Traction control unit
 * Rated voltage: 550V
 * Rated current: 412A
 * Weight: 685kg
 * Size(W×L×H mm): 1600×1800×500
 * Cooling: Forced cooling
 * Auxiliart power unit
 * Output1: Three-phase 208V 60Hz
 * Output2: Single-phase 120V 60Hz
 * Cooling: Forced cooling
 * Traction motor
 * Weight: 470kg
 * Size(Φ×W mm): 470×654
 * Pole: 6 poles
 * Rated voltage: 550V
 * Rated current: 206A
 * Rated rotation speed: 2770rpm
 * Rated frequency: 140Hz