Technology and Innovation - Page 2

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...

Indian Institute of Technology develops new train device to prevent derailment
Thursday, November 17, 2011 Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IITK) in India has developed a matchbox-sized device to monitor the wear and tear of railway tracks and prevent...

GO Transit launches new mobile app for rail passengers
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 GO Transit, an inter-regional public transit system in Ontario, Canada, has launched a mobile application that will allow passengers to view departures, set arrival alerts and bookmark...

Duos Technologies wins rail security contract in Indianapolis
Monday, November 14, 2011 Duos Technologies, a manufacturer of digital video surveillance and analytics, has won a $6.8m contract to equip a rail line with intelligent video security solutions in Indianapolis,...

Union Pacific unveils Autoflex convertible railcar
Thursday, November 10, 2011 US-based railroad operator Union Pacific has unveiled the AutoFlex railcar, built and designed at the company’s De Soto...

Paris launches driverless trains on Metro Line 1
Wednesday, November 09, 2011 Paris transit authority RATP has launched the first driverless trains on Metro Line 1 as part of a €600m automation...