Faced with the rapid urbanisation of our societies and the new challenges posed by climate change and soft mobility, rail transport is undergoing an unprecedented revival through new high-speed links and the renaissance of night trains.
The automation company Pilz and the expert in safe rail infrastructure, Pintsch, are to enter into a long-term development partnership. In future, the companies will work together to develop solutions for the digitisation of the rail infrastructure.
Vossloh, a long-established and world-leading supplier of innovative rail infrastructure products and services, is presenting its new and further developments at the world's largest rail trade fair InnoTrans in Berlin under the motto "enabling green mobility". Green mobility is the key to mastering some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
Siemens Mobility presents the Mireo Plus B battery train to the public for the first time at InnoTrans 2022. The Landesanstalt Schienenfahrzeuge Baden-Württemberg (SFBW) has ordered 27 Mireo Plus B trains from Siemens Mobility in 2020.
It will be the first battery hybrid fleet in passenger service anywhere in Europe when it starts running in Italy later this year – but is suitable to run across the continent.
SKF and Televic GSP have signed a letter of intent (LOI) to explore the possibilities to collaborate to increase customers’ rolling stock reliability and reduce maintenance costs by providing the next generation condition monitoring and data analysis.
TX Logistik AG (Mercitalia Group) has now presented the third generation of its NiKRASA technology. The solution, which also allows non-craneable semi-trailers to be easily loaded onto rail, has been improved once again and successfully tested in advance in rail and terminal operations.
As part of its commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, SMRT Trains has partnered Thales on a key initiative called “The Next-Generation Green CBTC Project”, which aims to reduce electricity consumption and further improve traction energy efficiency of the North-South and East-West lines (NSEWL), which are the oldest in Singapore’s rail network.
The East West Rail (EWR) Alliance, consisting of Atkins, Laing O’Rourke, VolkerRail and Network Rail, has brought Network Rail’s long welded rail train (LWRT) out of retirement, to help deliver one of the largest rail infrastructure projects in the UK.