Management features of Beijing-Hong Kong Metro Line 4

Line 4 is the first rail transit line in mainland China operated under the "franchise model". The Beijing Municipal Government invested 70 million and is mainly responsible for track civil construction; Beijing Jingjing is a joint venture between three companies: MTR Corporation Ltd., Beijing Infrastructure Investment Co., Ltd. (BIIC), and Beijing Capital Venture Group Co., Ltd. (BCG) The Hong Kong MTR Corporation Limited invested 30 million yuan and was responsible for the construction of major facilities such as vehicles, signals, and communications as well as mechanical and electrical engineering projects. It also took charge of the operation and management rights of Line 4 during the 30-year franchise period.

In some broadcasts within the Line 4 subway, the line is called "Beijing MTR Line 4". However, since the Beijing-Hong Kong Metro Corporation does not enjoy the permanent operating rights of Line 4, Line 4 is still referred to as "Beijing Metro 4" in the rolling subtitles in the station, the official website of the Beijing-Hong Kong Metro, and various agreement documents related to the line. Line".

Line 4 shares a toll area with other Beijing subway lines except the Airport Line. Passengers transferring to Line 4 from other subway lines do not need to purchase separate tickets. However, there are many differences from the Beijing Subway in the details of operation and management. The train numbering system of Line 4 is different from the traditional numbering of Beijing Metro: the trains do not use numbers after the train group number to indicate the order of the carriages. Instead, they use the abbreviation of railway technical terms to indicate the category of carriages. For example, "015M2" represents the No. 2 train of the 015th train group, and "001Tc1" represents the No. 1 trailer with a console of the 001st train group. Although this numbering system has no practical value for passengers, it is more standardized for vehicle managers.

The grouping order of train carriages on Line 4 is certain. For the upbound trains from Gongyi West Bridge to Anhe Bridge North, the grouping sequence from beginning to end is: Tc1, M1, M3, T3, M2, Tc2.

Line 4 also numbers the doors. The train uses "A" or "B" to indicate the left or right door, and then numbers 1 to 4 to indicate the order of the doors. Accordingly, a note is affixed to the screen door in each station platform, marking the number of the carriage and door that the screen door corresponds to. After Line 4 was opened to traffic, door number labels were also affixed to some vehicles on Beijing Subway Line 1 and other lines. Line 4 uses a different in-car announcement from the Beijing Subway, which is concise and to the point. When the train leaves from Xuanwumen Station to Xidan, it will broadcast: "Next station, Xidan. Passengers can transfer to Metro Line 1. Next station, XIDAN. Interchange station for Line 1." In addition to the automatic announcement, the train will transfer nearby When arriving at a station or terminal, the driver will manually broadcast to remind passengers to get ready. When a Line 4 train closes the door, the in-car speaker will be used and the beep will sound 20 times as a prompt. When there are many people getting on and off the bus, the driver will announce "The door is about to close, please hurry up to get in and out", or "The door is about to close, please stay away from the door."

Various reminders such as "No dangerous goods are allowed" are played regularly in the stations of Line 4. Before the train enters the station, the station notifies passengers through platform announcements. In the early days of opening, some stations would broadcast "Welcome to Station ×××" after the trains opened, but this was gradually canceled. There are no departure warning bells at any station. The no-eating rule is part of the Hong Kong MTR's business philosophy. Subway cars are crowded, and passengers eating here are not conducive to maintaining environmental hygiene. Second, hot food and drinks may burn other passengers. In addition, when holding food, it is difficult for passengers to maintain balance in the shaking car, and they may easily fall. Therefore, "no eating and drinking" signs were posted on the platforms and trains of Line 4.

However, the prohibition on eating and drinking has not been officially written into the "Beijing Subway Line 4 Passenger Code". Taking into account the actual situation in Beijing, regular behaviors such as drinking water on Line 4 will not be stopped. Station attendants will only remind and dissuade passengers when they eat food with strong taste and affect other passengers.

Hello, Motherland

At the end of September 2009, at the beginning of the opening of Line 4, the Beijing-Hong Kong Metro launched the "Hello, Motherland" large-scale public welfare project. Beijing-Hong Kong Metro cooperated with China Geographic Magazine to shoot 200 documentary images of people from different ethnic groups, different regions, and different occupations, and used more than 1,000 in-station light boxes, tunnel animation media, trackside PDP electronic screens, platform electronic animation screens and other media Hold an exhibition. At the same time, the Beijing-Hong Kong Metro applied special National Day exterior painting to the two train sets to enhance the festive atmosphere.

In October 2009, a number of National Day-themed children’s paintings carefully selected by the Beijing-Hong Kong Metro were posted on the walls of the transfer passage at Haidian Huangzhuang Station, expressing the children’s blessings to the motherland in their unique paintings. , echoing the "Hello Motherland" photography exhibition. At the same time, some of the "Hello, Motherland" themed photography has been given a new look. After further processing, the layout has reached a style similar to that of a movie poster, which is more impactful.

No. 4 Art Museum

In October 2009, Beijing-Hong Kong Metro cooperated with Beijing "February Bookstore" Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. to launch the "No. 4 Art Museum" public welfare project. When the project was launched, the Beijing-Hong Kong Metro hung 28 paintings by six artists including Ji Dachun and Chen Shuxia in the stairwells of two train sets and ten major passenger flow stations including Beijing South Railway Station, Xidan and Zhongguancun.

In February 2010, exhibition areas for the No. 4 Art Museum were also opened on the station hall floors of Gongyi West Bridge Station, Peking University East Gate Station, Beigongmen Station, Yuanmingyuan Station, and Caishikou Station. Each exhibition More than ten works of art are hung in the district.

Zodiac Graffiti Creation

In January 2010, students from Beijing universities were invited to participate in graffiti creation for the Year of the Tiger Spring Festival at Xizhimen Station. The whole team of 10 people completed the creation in 2 nights. They used New Year greeting words such as "The Year of the Tiger" and "Five Tigers Jumping into the New Year" as graffiti elements, and filled in the tiger-shaped picture with five stickers, aiming to bring traditional zodiac culture and modernity to passengers. A new experience combining art forms. The works will be displayed on Line 4 for about 6 months. Beijing-Hong Kong Metro stated that it hopes to bring street graffiti art into the subway through the exhibition of the "Graffiti Wall" at Xizhimen Station, thereby providing broader material for the construction of Line 4 subway culture.

Poetry No. 4

In May 2010, the Beijing-Hong Kong Metro launched a public welfare project - "Poetry No. 4". The partner is Beijing Yuxiang Feishi Culture Company. In the first phase of the project, 10 poems with the theme of "love" were boarded on two subway buses numbered 012 and 039, creating a subway journey full of literary flavor for passengers. The authors of poetry include Xu Zhimo, Dai Wangshu, Luofu, Bai Hua and other influential modern and contemporary poets. In the future, famous foreign poems are also expected to appear on the subway stage, providing passengers with a richer train travel experience.