Viper Innovations’ Engineering and Service teams have again been on-hand to provide critical support to Network Rail as they push to modernise maintenance and deliver safe, efficient and effective interventions to locate signalling power cable faults quickly and accurately before they become service affecting.
Overhead power lines have been replaced with solar alternatives in the Avon Valley to enhance the resilience and sustainability of this critical part of the network.
Ricardo's Seoul-based rail team has completed the assessment of a new Computer Based Interlocking (CBI) system against international safety standards, allowing it to be launched to a global market.
Today Keolis began operating and maintaining Dubai’s driverless metro network and operating the emirate’s tram network under a 15-year contract awarded by the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) on 31 January 2021.
HS2 Ltd has announced that over 20,000 people are now working on Britain’s high-speed rail project, one year on from the formal start of construction on Phase One from London to the West Midlands
On Moscow City Day, Moscow announced finishing construction of three new stations of the Big Circle Line and launched a test train along the new section from Mnyovniki to Davydkovo stations.
On September 10 the Moscow Central Circle (the MCC) celebrated its 5th anniversary. All these years it has been constantly developing, so that made it a real trendsetter in transport industry. In 5 years the MCC carried 633 million passengers.
Alstom’s first two Innovia 300 monorail trains for the Cairo Monorail project have arrived in Cairo after being completed at Alstom’s Derby UK factory, with propulsion systems application led by Alstom’s site in Trapaga, Spain. The dispatch of the first 8 fully automated, driverless cars out of 70 trains (a total of 280 cars) is a major milestone in the Cairo Monorail project, Egypt’s first two monorail lines, linking the New Capital City and 6th October City to Greater Cairo.
The "Swissloop Tunneling" research team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich has started unpacking and assembling its high-tech drilling robot in Las Vegas as they prepare to participate in the "Not-A-Boring Competition" on Sunday, September 12. As an official logistics partner, Gebrüder Weiss was responsible for the safe and timely land and sea transport of the critical technology from Dübendorf, Switzerland, to Las Vegas for the competition.