JAPAN: Mitsubishi Electric announced on February 22 that it had installed wayside and onboard radio equipment for a trial of CBTC signalling on part of the Tokyo metro.
Mitsubishi will work with operator Tokyo Metro to test the equipment on a three-station branch of the Marunouchi Line between Nakano-sakaue and Honancho. One specially-equipped train will be used for verification purposes.
Tokyo Metro intends to install CBTC on the entire Marunouchi Line by the end of the 2023 financial year.
USA: MTA New York City Transit has formally awarded Mitsubishi Electric Corp a contract to develop and test its communications-based train control products to verify interoperability with the CBTC systems ordered from Siemens and Thales.
JAPAN: Nippon Sharyo Series 1000 trainsets operating on Tokyo Metro's Ginza Line have been fitted with Toshiba onboard emergency batteries so that they can reach the next station under their own power in the event of a traction supply failure.
JAPAN: Tokyo Metro has started trial running with the first of 42 seven-car Series 13000 trainsets, which are expected to enter service on the capital’s Hibiya Line later this year. The 1 067 mm gauge aluminium-bodied trainsets are being built Kinki Sharyo in Osaka, and the first train was delivered ...
SWEDEN: The Solaris Sverige subsidiary of Solaris Bus Coach is supplying a trolleybus for the EVolution Road R D project that aims to test dynamic electric vehicle charging. Evolution Road is led by Elonroad and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Lund. ...
ITALY: The Ministry of Infrastructure Transport has provided an initial €11·1m for track (€4·4m) and rolling stock (€6·7m) maintenance on the Messina tramway. Works are due to start within weeks and will require partial closures. The funding marks a turnaround from September 2018 when ...
USA: Railway systems for the Southwest LRT extension of the Green Line light rail route in Minneapolis are to be supplied by a joint venture of Aldridge and Parsons under a $194·4m contract awarded by the Metropolitan Council on September 18. The deal covers the supply ...
