Hitachi Rail takes step to reduce 7,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.

Hitachi Rail’s new 360Pass smartphone app goes live in Trentino, Italy, today allowing passengers to use a QR code in an app to pay for all travel on trains and buses, and parking lots in the area.

Hitachi Rail has signed two new contracts to equip digital cab signalling technology on-board trains operated by SNCF and Eurostar on French national and cross-border rail networks.

Hitachi Rail has been awarded a Framework Agreement worth €867 million, as the leader of a consortium of companies, to design and deliver European Rail Transport Management System (ERTMS) digital signalling on 1,885 km of the Italian rail network.

Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx reach agreement with Hitachi Rail’s Connect 6ix consortium to transform Toronto’s mass transit network via the 15.6-km Ontario Line subway project.

Hitachi Rail has been awarded a major contract worth around 114bn JPY*1(around 814m USD) called CP04 by the Philippine Government's Department of Transportation to deliver Electrical & Mechanical Systems and Track Works, including digital signalling for the new commuter railway from Solis to Malolos in the Philippines.

ATM has awarded a €368m framework agreement for the manufacturing of new metro trains for the Milan metro, to Hitachi RailThe award is part of ATM's massive investment plan to deliver an increasingly sustainable and technologically advanced public transport system.

Lumo, FirstRail, Beacon Rail and Hitachi Rail celebrate anniversary of first service on 25th October.

Factory located in Hagerstown, Maryland, will be capable of manufacturing trains for railways across North America, beginning with new fleet for Washington DC Region’s Metro.

Thanks to its ability to travel with diesel engines, with a pantograph on electrified lines and with batteries, the Blues hybrid train allows a 50% reduction in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions compared to current diesel trains.