From intercity and cross border travel to urban mobility, digitalisation is shaping the future of sustainable rail. Thales wants it safe, affordable, accessible, efficient, and resilient, while minimizing carbon and other emissions and environmental impact.
The InnoTrans Outdoor Display is where Plasser & Theurer will be presenting the Unimat 09-4x4/4S Dynamic E3, the new all-in-one tamping machine with climate-friendly drive technology.
The Face Pay biometric fare payment system was launched at all stations of the Moscow Central Circle (MCC), the surface railway circle line operated by the Moscow Metro.
These two contracts relate to the cities of Hannover and Canberra for an aggregate in excess of €220 million and reinforce the company's significant orders in hand, which reached a record figure of more than €10.7 billion at the close of the first half of the year.
From September 20 to 23 at the InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin, SYSTRA, the global engineering group specialising in transport, and STRADAL, France's leading precast concrete company, will be exhibiting Slab Track, the new generation of low-carbon ballastless track that they have co-developed.
Siemens Mobility supported RATP and Ile-de-France Mobilités in the complete automation of Line 4. Siemens Mobility fully automated the line with its digitalized systems and CBTC signaling technology. The automation of Line 4 will centralize control of operations, increase availability, reliability, and capacity.
Buckling on ballasted tracks is a result of the accumulation of energy in the track due to thermal variation. The technology startup MainRail has deployed a pilot of its new predictive buckling module in the Mallorca Railway Network (SFM) with the support of the construction company Azvi.
On September 9, Christophe Fanichet (Chairman and CEO of SNCF Voyageurs), Alain Krakovitch (Director of TGV-Intercités), Xavier Ouin (Industrial Director of SNCF Voyageurs) and Jean-Baptiste Eyméoud (President, Alstom France) unveiled the production line of the TGV of the future in Alstom's La Rochelle workshops, after an operation that brings together the power cars and passenger cars.
With the strong growth in rail traffic, the load on existing lines will also increase. This increases the importance of maintaining the existing network as well as possible, preventively, so as not to jeopardize the availability of the heavily used routes.
Next milestone in the “H2goesRail” project. Siemens CEO Roland Busch, DB CEO Richard Lutz and State Secretary Hartmut Höppner take first test ride in the Mireo Plus H and test the refueling process. Innovative complete hydrogen system will be used in regular passenger service as of 2024 and replace diesel trainset.