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Advances to rail signalling and train control systems are set to make international rail transport more competitive and attractive. Read our content that follows the various strategies being implemented and what the benefits are of new digital signalling, control and communications solutions for the railway industry.
Thanks to privatisation, the UK’s railways are a huge success story with more people than ever using the rail network. Over the last year, there was a 5.7% increase in passenger journeys to 1.6 billion. While this increase is welcome it brings with it challenges. Stephen Hammond – the UK’s…
8 July 2014 | By Electroustic
Industrial Ethernet specialist calls for industry collaboration...
16 June 2014 | By Bombardier Transportation
Rail technology leader Bombardier Transportation has added a new European Rail Traffic Management System Level 2 high speed reference to its portfolio...
This issue features a forward from Ketil Solvik-Olsen, Norway's Minister of Transport and Communications, a Northern Europe Profile featuring articles from Trafikstyrelsen, Jernbaneverket, The Scandinavian 8 Million City Project and AS Eesti Radutee, exclusive Track Systems and Signalling & Telecommunications supplements, plus an update from INEA...
In our latest free-to-view Signalling & Telecommunications Supplement, read about the state of ETCS across Europe plus an openETCS@ITEA2 project update...
4 June 2014 | By Jörgen Nyström, Business Sector Manager for Elmia Nordic Rail
On 6-8 October 2015, Nordic Rail will once again invite the railway industry to Jönköping in Sweden for an opportunity for companies, organisations and industry peers to discuss what the future holds for rail in Scandinavia. In an exclusive interview for Global Railway Review, Jörgen Nyström, Business Sector Manager for…
27 May 2014 | By Kapsch
The President of the Polish Office of Rail Transportation has granted the approval for the operation of the GSM-R system implemented by Kapsch CarrierCom on route E30 on the Bielawa Dolna – Węgliniec – Legnica route...
SŽDC is a state-organisation tasked with the role of railway infrastructure manager for the Czech Republic. The country’s railway network has approximately 9,459km of lines which consist of 1,950km of double-and multi-tracks and 7,509km of single track lines operating with standard gauge. Only 23km of single-track lines are narrow-gauged. Approximately…
The openETCS® concept consists of two components: a commercial one, requesting open source licensed ETCS OBU software, plus a three-year openETCS® R&D project within the ITEA2 cluster of the EUREKA R&D framework. Now almost halfway through, the project has already reached one of its mayor milestones – providing a tools…
ERTMS development was launched in 1989. The objective was to shape a harmonised and unified system for signalling, train control and train communication. The main drivers of this decision were not only to facilitate interoperability across the European railway and to improve technical compatibility (e.g. compatibility between vendor solutions) but…
15 May 2014 | By Kapsch
Supply of GSM-R core networks and access technology for a total of more than 300 kilometers of railway lines...
14 May 2014 | By IRU / UIC
In the framework of the Anniversary of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020, the International Road Transport Union and the International Union of Railways joined forces to initiate a Level Crossing Safety Checklist...
8 May 2014 | By Bombardier Transportation
Rail technology leader Bombardier Transportation, as the lead in a consortium with Thales, has won the second contract to be awarded by Spain's Administrator of Railway Infrastructure, ADIF, for the upgrade of the Mediterranean Corridor...
29 April 2014 | By Kapsch
Integration of Slovakian rail network is a key element in the European ERTMS project...
This issue features articles from the German Railway Industry Association, NETINERA, and the recently inaugurated Leipzig City Tunnel; A look at Bombardier’s FLEXX Eco Bogie, UNIFE’s EURAXLES project, and CETEST’s instrumented wheelsets work; Manfred Pisek and Stefan Gaider, ÖBB Infrastructure discuss signalling in Austria; Constructing the Copenhagen–Ringsted line and InterCity…
