Siemens Mobility and everis have been awarded a 5-year contract by Renfe, the national railway company of Spain, to develop and operate a countrywide, intelligent Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform. The comprehensive digital platform will integrate various modes of shared and public transport, such as train, bicycle, metro, bus, car sharing, and scooter services, so passengers can easily identify and directly book the trip option that best meets their needs. Once completed, the platform will be available in 27 cities across Spain including metropolitan areas like Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, and Sevilla.
Siemens Mobility has signed a binding agreement to acquire the Netherlands based company Sqills, a leading provider in the provision of cloud-based inventory management, reservation, and ticketing software to public transport operators around the world
Vossloh, a leading international supplier of rail infrastructure products and services, has won a comprehensive framework contract in Norway. Via its Swedish subsidiary Vossloh Nordic Switch Systems AB, switches and crossings will be supplied over the coming years to Bane NOR, the state-owned infrastructure manager of the roughly 4,200-km-long rail network in Norway.
The Port Authority of Ferrol-San Cibrao has awarded Ardanuy Ingenieria two new contracts which form part of the Port’s railway network modification project.
The hub will unite the Moscow Metro station Elektrozavodskaya (Line 3), the station of the Big Circle Line, the same-named station of the future D3 (Moscow Central Diameters – MCD), city e-bus and bus routes and a pedestrian bridge over the Yauza river, which will connect two embankments – Semenovskaya and Rubtsovskaya.
HS2’s contractor delivering the London tunnels, Skanska Costain STRABAG Joint Venture (SCS JV), has signed the first of two contracts for the production of concrete precast tunnel segments that will be used to construct HS2’s London tunnels.
Kiepe Electric GmbH, based in Düsseldorf, and its customer Wuppertaler Stadtwerke (WSW) have achieved a key objective: The suspension monorail in Wuppertal will resume service on July 31, 2021. The partners have created the conditions for regular operation of the suspension monorail with increased passenger comfort.
Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) and Hitachi Rail announce today that they are entering into exclusive negotiations on the sale of Thales’s Ground Transportation Systems Global Business Unit (“Ground Transportation Systems” or “GTS”) for an enterprise value of € 1,660 million