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The Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway (GSM-R) is an international wireless communications standard for railway communication and applications. A sub-system of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS), GSM-R is used for communication between rolling stock and railway regulation control centres.
15 February 2011 | By Kris Przelaskowski, Retired Senior Signalling Engineer
In the past, Poland (with its 23,000km railway network) badly needed a good operational radio communication system. The first simple analogue system started in 1972 connecting the harbours of Gdynia and Gdansk with Silesia. The radio-telephone network has provided good communication between dispatchers and running trains along the whole route…
10 December 2010 | By Pio Guido, Head of the ERTMS Unit, European Railway Agency (ERA)
Railways epitomise the triumph of engineering. From the early exploits of technological progress in the Victorian age, to the most recent speed records, from the age of steam power to the age of power semiconductors, engineering prowess has always been closely associated with the railway world. Engineers have been successful…
3 September 2010 | By SELEX Communications
A consortium including SELEX Communications has been awarded a contract for Libya's Sirth-Benghazi railway line.
23 March 2010 | By Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Jernbaneverket to deploy a high-speed network based on IP/MPLS technology to handle all business communications.
11 February 2010 | By NEC Portugal
NEC Portugal will supply Thales Portugal with GSM-R Cab Radios for installation in the new trains of the Saudi Arabia Railways.
28 January 2010 | By Dan Mandoc, ERTMS/GSM-R Project Manager, UIC
Over the last few years, the UIC has written many updates about the GSM-R situation in Europe for Global Railway Review and 2009 was a good year for GSM-R, despite the overall difficult economic environment. Finland is the latest country who has changed its colour on the UIC GSM-R implementation…
28 January 2010 | By Pascal Bertrand, QATS GSM-R Product Manager, Expandium
Because safety is a vital concern for all players in the rail industry, Expandium has designed QATS – a highly efficient troubleshooting solution enabling technical staff to detect network malfunctions early and correct them. With QATS, Expandium’s experts have met the challenge to display and monitor the performance of a…
28 January 2010 | By Rémi Bévot, GSM-R Project Director and Olivier Labourdette, GSM-R Project Manager, SNCF Engineering
Many railway operators have decided to implement ground-to-train radios on their networks in the fourth quarter of the 20th century, which was, for most of them, variants of a UIC specific analogue technology. In order to anticipate the upcoming obsolescence of this existing radio and having in mind the objective…
28 January 2010 | By Martijn Kuijpers, Director, Clear CinCom
There are important differences between traditional radio planning and the construction of a GSM-R network, explains GSM-R consultant Martijn Kuijpers. “The nature of GSM-R and elaborate government requirements make constructing a well optimised GSM-R radio network a very specific challenge.”
28 January 2010 | By Johann Garstenauer, Head of Railway Solutions, Nokia Siemens Networks
Today’s railway networks are undergoing a renaissance. With high-speed lines competing for much of the business of short haul and domestic air traffic, railways are attracting passengers at an ever growing rate. Modern digital communications technology is ready to support this transformation.
28 January 2010 | By László Mosóczi, Member of the Board, Chief Operating Officer, Head of MÁV Infrastructure
Hungarian State Railways Co. (MÁV) is characterised by limited market and financial opportunities which are determined by the obligation to sustain the level of service, the application of obligatory ticket prices, limited budgetary compensations and by limited debt raising opportunities. After a couple of decades, the first years of the…
26 September 2009 | By Fernando Ribeiro Vendas, Head of Signalling and Telecommunications, Engineering Department, RAVE
The de-grouping from the value chain which underlies the proposed business model for the high-speed network (HSN) project in Portugal led to a single international public tender request in the form of a PPP (public-private partnership), under the name of ‘HSN Signalling and Telecommunication Concession (HSN S&T Concession)'. The aim…
21 July 2009 | By Herwig Wiltberger, Member of the Board, ÖBB-Infrastruktur Betrieb and August Zierl, Head of ÖBB’s Business Unit ‘Engineering Services’, ÖBB-Infrastruktur Bau AG
ÖBB-Infrastruktur Betrieb AG is a modern and customer-oriented infrastructure operator allowing the 22 railway undertakings authorised to operate in Austria access to ÖBB's approximately 5,700km-long railway network. To this end, ÖBB's operation control strategy plays a decisive role. ÖBB heralded a new high-tech era with the launch of the operation…
15 May 2009 | By Paolo de Cicco, ERTMS Platform Manager, UIC
Details of the ERTMS Benchmark project which was launched with the objective of providing UIC members with a methodology and framework for an international economic evaluation and benchmark of ERTMS implementations.
26 March 2009 | By Poul Frøsig, UIC ERTMS/ETCS Project Manager and Global Railway Review Editorial Board Member and Ibrahim Muftic, Signalling & Telecommunication Expert, Railway Design Company in Zagreb
In 1992, the UIC initiated the ETCS project. An EU Transport Conference held in Essen in 1993 and a document published by the Danish transport EU commissioner, was the starting point for considerations on supporting corridors in Central Europe. Mr. Poul Frøsig, the ETCS Project Manager, identified in the Danish…
