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Network Rail and ProRail continue to engage together

In mid-August, Network Rail and ProRail signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to continue their partnership.

28. August 2023

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Network agency postpones LTE switchover to 2024

The Federal Network Agency has prohibited the introduction of another 4G radio frequency for better mobile phone reception in trains, planned for the timetable change on 11.12.2022, and postponed it until December 2024.

02. Dezember 2022

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Multi-agent AI helps DB with train scheduling

DB is expanding the use of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool for train scheduling. It uses reinforcement learning methods.

19. Juni 2023

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MoU: Thales to cooperate with Knorr-Bremse and Voestalpine in future

At InnoTrans, Thales signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with Knorr-Bremse AG and Voestalpine AG.

22. September 2022

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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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More safety in rail traffic between Ortigueira and Ribadeo

As part of the "Telephone Blocking System Elimination Plan " currently being developed by the Spanish railway infrastructure authority Adif, Thales has been awarded the contract to coordinate the construction project and carry out the works on the Ortigueira - Ribadeo section of the line 740 metre gauge line linking Ferrol to Pravia.

30. März 2023

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More money planned for DZM projects in 2024

The German Centre for Future Mobility (DZM), which was planned on a large scale under former Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer, will now be "implemented on a project basis".

28. August 2023

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Moratorium on TSIs for ETCS necessary

At a discussion event organised by the LTE Group during the Transport Logistic trade fair, Steffen Bobsien, Vice President Locomotives & Passenger Coaches at Siemens Mobility with global responsibility for locomotives and passenger coaches, spoke in favour of a moratorium on changes to ETCS in the EU's Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI).

23. Mai 2023

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Monitoring systems for 147 light rail vehicles

Transport for Manchester is implementing a recommendation from the national Rail Accident Investigation Branch for light rail systems, which includes two additional monitoring systems in the vehicles to prevent serious accidents.

12. Juli 2023

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Modernisation of logistics centre

On behalf of the Spanish railway infrastructure authority Adif, Thales is modernising the Vitoria-Gasteiz intermodal logistics centre in northern Spain.

15. Februar 2023

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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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Metro line 13 to be fully automated

The Paris transport authority Ile-de-France-Mobilités (IDFM) and the operator RATP have given the go-ahead for the automation of metro line 13.

15. Dezember 2022

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Metro Copenhagen: Digitisation completed

On the last weekend of September, Banedanmark also put the new CBTC system into operation on the last three sections of the Copenhagen S-Bahn, the lines to Frederikssund, Høje Taastrup and Køge.

07. Oktober 2022

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Metrô BH receives ATO

Metrô BH, a company of the Brazilian Grupo Comporte, has signed a contract with Alstom for the supply of a new signalling system and operations control centre (OCC) for Line 1 and its extension, as well as for the new Line 2 of the metro in Belo Horizonte, the capital city of the state of Minas Gerais in south-eastern Brazil.

16. Oktober 2023

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Major order for Siemens from Egypt

Siemens Mobility and its consortium partners Orascom Construction and The Arab Constructors have been awarded the contract for the construction of the world's sixth-largest high-speed system with a length of around 2000 km.

03. Juni 2022