Bombardier Wins Signalling Order in Korea
09 May 2004 10:16
Bombardier Transportation has been awarded a £21-million (€32 million) order by a consortium led by Taejung Electric Construction Co., Ltd.
The contract calls for Bombardier to provide the Bombardier* INTERFLO* 250 solution, its European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) Level 1, to the Korean National Railroad. The system consists of Bombardier* EBI* Cab 2000 onboard Automatic Train Protection (ATP) systems for 414 cabs, and Bombardier* EBI* Link wayside ATP systems equipment consisting of lineside electronic units (LEUs) and balises for the lines from Seoul to Busan and from Daejon to Mokpo, totalling 760km. The final delivery is scheduled to take place in December 2006.
Javier Rión, President of Rail Control Solutions, Bombardier Transportation said: “This order is of strategic importance for us as it marks the entrance of our INTERFLO ERTMS solutions to the Asian market”. He added, “This new order reinforces our position as a global signalling solution supplier."
Bombardier is a leader in ERTMS technology, as the only ERTMS supplier to have put an ERTMS Level 2 line into commercial operation to date. Bombardier has other contracts to supply ERTMS Levels 1 and 2 to other countries such as Taiwan, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy.
Bombardier Transportation’s Rail Control Solutions portfolio covers the whole range of mass transit solutions through Bombardier* CITYFLO* from manual to fully automatic systems, as well as communication based systems, and mainline solutions Bombardier INTERFLO from conventional systems to ERTMS level 2 systems. Our solutions embrace a complete palette of wayside and onboard products.
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