Nachrichten  

Rail Impacts

EU Commission: TEN-T Regulation with ERTMS milestones

The EU wants to revise the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T) Regulation. On 14 December 2021, the EU Commission discussed a draft submitted by the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament and adopted proposals.

21. Dezember 2021

Rail Impacts

Stadler acquires BBR and forms new Signalling Division

Stadler takes over BBR Verkehrstechnik GmbH with its group companies in the field of signalling technology and digitalisation.

21. Dezember 2021

Rail Impacts

Thales supplies axle counters to Prorail

Thales has signed a framework agreement with Prorail for the supply of new axle counters.

13. Januar 2022

Rail Impacts

Successful GoA4 test run in the Czech Republic

The railway technology manufacturer AŽD presented an ATO solution on the Cížkovice - Most line on 15.12.2021. It was the first public run according to the GoA4 automation level on the Czech network.

18. Januar 2022

Rail Impacts

Hitachi to continue operating fully automated metro for Riyadh Women's University

Hitachi Rail will continue to operate and maintain the fully automated metro system at Princess Nourah Bint Abdul Rahman University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

24. Januar 2022

Rail Impacts

LTE coverage achieved on all German ICE routes

Full coverage with LTE (4G) is now said to be guaranteed along the ICE routes in Germany. This is shown by the Federal Government's answer to a parliamentary question from the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.

02. Februar 2022

Rail Impacts

SpaceX engineers develop autonomous rail vehicles

When SpaceX engineers join forces to form a new company, technological innovation is highly likely. The Californian start-up Parallel Systems is dedicated to developing autonomous rail vehicles for freight transport.

03. Februar 2022

Rail Impacts

Spain may subsidise on-board equipment for ETCS

The European Commission has authorised, under EU state aid rules, a Spanish scheme worth EUR 30 million to remove obstacles to the interoperability of rail freight services in Spain.

14. Februar 2022

Rail Impacts

Alstom to supply CBTC for Turin Metro

Alstom will equip Line 1 of the Turin Metro with a CBTC system. The contract with the municipal company Infra.To includes the development, delivery, installation, testing and commissioning of the control system.

15. Februar 2022

Rail Impacts

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

Rail Impacts

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

Rail Impacts

"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

Rail Impacts

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

Rail Impacts

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

Rail Impacts

Development of a Safe Computing Platform started

The conversion of the rail industry to digital technologies poses special challenges in terms of safety, especially on the software side. These are to be met with the specification of a Safe Computing Platform.

17. März 2022