POA Trensurb Trip Time

Trensurb Travel Time Estimator (Porto Alegre)

Trensurb (Empresa de Trens Urbanos de Porto Alegre S.A.) is the federal state-owned company that runs the only urban rail line in the Porto Alegre metropolitan area, in Rio Grande do Sul. It opened in March 1985 while still under CBTU, and was later split off into a fully owned federal subsidiary. The single line covers 43 km from Mercado, in downtown Porto Alegre, out to Novo Hamburgo, with 23 stations spread across six municipalities. To estimate total travel time the calculator uses total = stations × avg_dwell + segments × avg_run, based on Trensurb’s usual 40 s dwell and a 2 min average run between stations, which works out to roughly 52 min end to end.

On an average day the line carries about 130,000 passengers, and the flat fare is R$ 4.60. The fleet is in the middle of a heavy overhaul. The OEM-EnergRail consortium, using rolling stock from China’s CRRC Changchun, is set to deliver 15 new trainsets between 2025 and 2027 to retire the original Nippon Sharyo cars dating back to the 1980s.

Applications

It comes in handy for people commuting between the Vale do Sinos (Novo Hamburgo, São Leopoldo, Canoas) and downtown Porto Alegre. It also helps when figuring in the Aeromovel link to Salgado Filho Airport at Aeroporto station, or when planning arrival times around the 2024 flood reconstruction that hit several stations.

FAQ

Is the airport connection included? Yes. Aeroporto station links to Salgado Filho Airport through the Aeromovel people-mover, a free transfer that takes about 3 min.

How did the 2024 floods affect operations? The flooding submerged several low-lying stations between Mathias Velho and São Leopoldo. Service was fully back by late 2024, once the federal emergency reconstruction was done.

What changes with the new CRRC trainsets? They accelerate faster and have air-conditioning in every car. Peak headways drop from 7 to 5 min, which pushes real-world capacity up by around 30 %.