Railway line maintenance in the EU costs over €11 billion, according to data from the European Commission. However, in recent years, new technological developments are enabling the rail industry to improve the efficiency of its maintenance processes, increase management and safety quality, and extend the useful life of some of the assets, such as carriages and catenary, for example.
Knorr-Bremse has further strengthened an existing partnership with Alstom that aims to deliver safe, sustainable and efficient rail transportation. Under a recently signed framework contract, Knorr-Bremse will enjoy a conditional exclusivity until at least 2025 for trains sourced from the high-performance, versatile Coradia Stream train family.
the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER), together with the Alliance of Passenger Rail New Entrants in Europe (ALLRAIL), the European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services (CLECAT), the European Passengers' Federation (EPF), Erasmus by Train e.V. (EbT) and the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF), came together to formally close the European Year of Rail, on the occasion of the European Railway Summit organised within the framework of the French Presidency of the EU Council
Colas Rail, leader of a consortium that includes Thales and Egis, has been selected by Mitsubishi Corporation to design and build the turnkey rail system for the first underground line of the Metro Manila Subway, for a total contract value of about €1 billion, of which €760 million* for Colas Rail. The contract, the first secured by Colas Rail in the Philippines, further reinforce the company’s position as a system integrator for major rail infrastructure.
Alstom has signed a new contract to install a complete driverless communications-based train control (CBTC) signalling system and electromechanical infrastructure for the Umraniye-Atasehir-Goztepe (UAG) Metro Line, which is of great importance for the Anatolian side of Istanbul.
Brüel & Kjær Vibro (B&K Vibro), part of the NSK Group, has signed a long-term agreement with Stadler Rail to install its state-of-the-art VCM-3 condition monitoring system (CMS) on 606 rail carriages for the Berlin Underground (U-Bahn). The VCM-3 CMS will serve to optimise maintenance schedules, maintain uptime and reduce operating costs.
Following some confusion regarding Stadler’s qualified electronic signature, the Supreme Administrative Court in Vienna finally cleared the way for Stadler