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The European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) is a traffic management system that provides a unified signalling and train control system throughout Europe. A key component of ERTMS is the on-board rolling stock signalling equipment known as the European Train Control System (ETCS).
Inthis supplement: Crossrail’s signalling plans for best possible performance; What is in store for ERTMS in 2013? (Pio Guido Head of ERTMS Unit, European Railway Agency); Railway telecommunications and traffic safety (José Pestana Neves, Adviser to the Board of Directors, Refer Telecom and Member of the UIC European Radio Implementation…
20 February 2013 | By Jaap Balkenende, Project Manager – Hanzelijn, ProRail
“The Netherlands, here you are” were proud words of the 2012 Dutch Olympic gold medallist Ranomi Kromowidjojo. ProRail can also use the same words when speaking about the Hanzelijn – the newest railway track that the railway manager has built between Lelystad and Zwolle – we are proud of the…
27 November 2012 | By Craig Waters, Editor, Global Railway Review
Speaking exclusively with Global Railway Review, Jiří Kolář, Director General of the Czech Railway Infrastructure Administration (SŽDC) discusses the operational mission of the organisation, the importance of high-speed lines in the Czech Republic, competition with road transport, and what the future holds. Could you summarise the past and SŽDC’s mission?…
8 November 2012 | By ERTMS Solutions
ERTMS Solutions has released its ERTMSFormalSpecs product in open source, under the European Union Public License...
14 September 2012 | By ERTMS Solutions
Strategic alliance to answer railway operators’ incessant demand for multi-purposes quality monitoring solutions....
5 September 2012 | By ERTMS Solutions
Join us at Innotrans 2012, at Hall 6.2 Stand 208 to discover our 2012 innovations...
4 July 2012 | By ERTMS Solutions
ERTMS Solutions is a Brussels-based company developing ERTMS software and services since 2004...
14 May 2012 | By ERTMS Solutions
In order to help its customers test, homologate and maintain their onboard and trackside...
19 April 2012 | By Bombardier
Bombardier has delivered the world’s first application of a ERTMS regional solution...
29 February 2012 | By ERTMS Solutions
Siemens Signalling Belgium assists Infrabel for the ETCS L1 lines...
22 September 2011 | By Gunnar Alexandersson, Senior Policy Advisor, The Association of Swedish Train Operating Companies (ASTOC)
The Association of Swedish Train Operating Companies (ASTOC) acts on behalf of Sweden’s train operators. It seeks to represent the interests of commercial rail traffic in its dealing with the Government and Parliament, authorities, business principals, the media and other bodies. ASTOC also assists in increasing the rail industry’s know-how…
4 August 2011 | By Stefan Rameder, System Integration Officer for the ÖBB ETCS Programme, ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG
After years of preparation and comprehensive calls for tenders from suppliers, Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) has placed all orders for the implementation of the European Train Control System (ETCS). In February 2010 the final purchase order was placed, concerning system integration. During the past two years, a company-wide programme group…
31 May 2011 | By Libor Lochman, Deputy Executive Director, the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER)
The legal environment of the European rail system has dramatically changed during the last two decades. The three rail packages have caused a completely new structure of the railway business and induced an introduction of a number of new actors on the European railway market. Furthermore, in order to enable…
In this paper, we will try to provide a general overview about the state-of-the-art aspects of satellite positioning systems and their usage in the railway safety assessment field, in particular in the On-Board Technological Systems (OBTS) assessment processes. Obviously CENELEC norms are applied in Italy, but the national peculiarities request…
15 February 2011 | By Costas D. Melissinos, Manager of Railway Telecom & IT Systems Operations & Maintenance, ERGOSE
The preparation, tendering and implementation phases of the GSM-R project in Greece are presented in a descriptive, but mainly explanatory type methodology. The objective was to introduce a new digital telecommunication network to replace the analog system along the main railway axis and provide the necessary interoperability for future roaming…
