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Moscow: Driverless trams and taxis from 2023?

At a congress on the future of autonomous means of transport, Moscow's deputy mayor Maksim Liksutov said that driverless trams could go into test operation in the Russian capital at the end of 2022 or beginning of 2023.

24. Februar 2022

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Siemens supplies signalling technology for Northumberland Line

The British infrastructure manager Network Rail has awarded Siemens Mobility a contract to supply signalling and control equipment for the Northumberland Line project to reintroduce passenger services on the freight line between Newcastle and Ashington from 2024.

25. Februar 2022

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EU Transport Commissioner calls for own resources from the sector

EU Transport Commissioner Adina Valean dampens expectations of the rail industry that the public sector will provide more and more funds to finance new technologies such as the European train control system ERTMS or the Digital Automatic Coupling.

28. Februar 2022

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Mitsubishi wins CBTC contract for Metro New York

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has been awarded a contract to supply a CBTC system for the eastern section of Metro New York's Queens Boulevard Line (QBL).

01. März 2022

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Hitachi supplies ERTMS components for Swedish maintenance trains

Hitachi Rail has signed a contract to install new digital signalling technologies on board of two maintenance trains operated by Swedish rail maintenance company Infranord.

01. März 2022

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Alstom to supply CBTC system for M12 metro line in Istanbul

Alstom will supply a CBTC system and the electromechanical infrastructure for the new M12 Ümraniye – Ataşehir – Göztepe metro line in Istanbul.

02. März 2022

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"Rail operators lack incentives to convert"

Matthias Ruete has been the European coordinator for the introduction of ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System) since 2019. In an interview with Rail Impacts, he talks about the state of expansion, problems with the roll-out and measures with which the EU wants to accelerate the introduction.

02. März 2022

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Kontron installs and operates radio system for Grand Paris Express

Kontron Transportation has been awarded a contract by La Société du Grand Paris (SGP) to supply, install and maintain the operational radio system for Line 18 of the Grand Paris Express project.

03. März 2022

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Spanish Adif awards GSM-R and ESTW contracts

Spanish infrastructure manager Adif has awarded the contract to install and maintain a GSM-R mobile radio system on the Torralba - Soria and Aranda - Aranda de Duero branch lines to a consortium made up of Kontron Transportation España and Sistemas y Montajes Industriales.

03. März 2022

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Tilting technology and ETCS active simultaneously on German ICE trains

On 02.02.2022, for the first time in Germany, a timetable operation took place in which both the track curve-dependent tilting technology (GNT) and the train control system ETCS were active.

08. März 2022

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ETCS Level 1 from Greece to Bulgaria

Christos Vinis, President and CEO of the infrastructure manager ErgOSE, has announced that the signalling with ETCS Level 1 of the section Platy - Thessaloniki (northern part of the Athens - Thessaloniki magistrale) has been completed.

09. März 2022

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Accurate train location data trial in Great Britain

Potential uses of very precise train location data are being assessed from a trial installation of Thales’ Robust Train Positioning System on a Great Western Railway Class 150 diesel multiple-unit in Great Britain.

10. März 2022

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Thales to supply ERTMS Central Safety System to ProRail

Dutch infrastructure operator ProRail has named Thales as the best bidder for the delivery of the ERTMS Central Safety System (CSS).

15. März 2022

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Hitachi Rail wins ERTMS framework contract from RFI

Hitachi Rail has been awarded a framework contract by Italian infrastructure operator RFI to develop and implement ERTMS on 700km of railway lines worth EUR 500 mio.

15. März 2022

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ETCS laboratory: first stage to go into operation at the end of 2022

The future German ETCS laboratory of the Federal Railway Authority (EBA) and the German Centre for Rail Transport Research (DZSF) is to actively advance the research and development of the European train control system.

16. März 2022