Technology and Innovation - Page 1

HIT Rail unveils integrated multichannel rail information system
Thursday, February 09, 2012 Netherlands-based information and data communications firm HIT Rail has launched a multichannel interconnected information system which will provide integrated rail message brokering...

Indian Railways launches first mobile vehicle to test locomotive emissions
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 Indian Railways has introduced a first-of-its kind emission test car (ETC) to test emission levels of diesel locomotives at maintenance and manufacturing depots across the...

Michigan University joins national rail research, education centre
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 Michigan Technological University has been selected as one of seven members of a research university consortium that has been awarded a $3.5m grant from the US Department of Transportation...

Kapsch secures Irish Rail radio system contract
Monday, February 06, 2012 Irish railway operator Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) has awarded a contract to Austria-based Kapsch CarrierCom for the implementation of a digital train radio system for the Dublin Area...

Singapore awards contracts for new trains, signalling systems
Thursday, February 02, 2012 Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded contracts to purchase 18 North East Line (NEL) trains and 16 Circle Line (CCL) trains to enhance train network capacity in the...

Denmark signs signalling contracts with Alstom, Thales and Balfour Beatty
Thursday, February 02, 2012 The Danish railway infrastructure owner Banedanmark has signed contracts with a joint venture of Thales Group, Balfour Beatty Rail (Thales-BBR) and Alstom to deliver a signalling system to...

Invensys Rail wins Glasgow south suburban line resignalling deal
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 Network Rail has awarded a contract to Invensys Rail to deliver resignalling work for the Glasgow south suburban line in Scotland,...

RailCorp begins installation of digital train radio system
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Sydney rail network operator RailCorp in New South Wales, Australia, has begun construction of the first of 250 towers required for its new digital train radio system (DTRS)...

Bombardier research shows high-speed trains are viable on Sweden's rail network
Friday, January 27, 2012 A group of Swedish researchers, supported by Bombardier, have found that new-generation trains with higher speeds, lower energy consumption, reduced noise and lower costs can run on the...

Ansaldo wins signalling contracts in Turkey and UAE
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Finmeccanica subsidiary Ansaldo has won contracts worth €120m to deliver signalling systems in Turkey and the United Arab...

Thales wins Hong Kong APM signalling contract
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Thales has secured a contract from the IHI Corporation to re-signal the automated people mover (APM) at Hong Kong international...

Bombardier selects Maxwell ultracapacitors for rail braking energy recovery system
Monday, January 23, 2012 Bombardier Transportation has selected Maxwell Technologies’ ultracapacitors as the energy storage element for its EnerGstor braking energy recuperation...

Indian Rail expands train protection warning system
Thursday, January 12, 2012 Southern Railway, a unit of Indian Rail, has revealed plans to extend the train protection warning system (TPWS) currently installed in the Madras Beach-Central-Gummidipoondi EMU line to the...

Fujitsu joins forces with Höft & Wessel to develop rail ticketing solution
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 Fujitsu has entered into a collaboration with IT and engineering technology group Höft & Wessel to develop ticketing, parking and mobile applications for the rail...

Thales consortium wins Hungarian train protection system contract
Thursday, January 05, 2012 Hungarian National Infrastructure Development Company (NIF) has awarded a €70m contract to a consortium, including Thales and Hungarian company Dunántúli, to deliver interlocking and...

Thales wins rail signalling contract in Brazil
Monday, December 19, 2011 Thales has won a contract from Andrade Gutierrez (AG) and CR Almeida to deliver its SelTrac communications-based train control (CBTC) signalling solution for Line 17 of the São Paulo metro in...

SmartWater forensic technology reduces rail cable theft
Friday, December 02, 2011 SmartWater Technology has developed a new crime reduction technology to protect trackside cable and other materials from theft and...

Indra to unveil new system for railway traffic management solutions
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Indra is planning to unveil its advanced railway traffic management solution, ticketing and access control systems, as well as its STACrail, a system for assisted exploitation, at BcnRail,...

Alcatel-Lucent to provide communication solution to Paris Métro rail system
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Alcatel-Lucent has partnered with France-based public transport operator RATP to provide broadband communications services on Line 1 of the Paris...

Network Rail to consolidate signalling centres
Thursday, November 17, 2011 Network Rail is devising a 30-year strategy to consolidate its signalling control centres to 14 rail operating centres that will offer a cost saving of £250m a year as well as improve...