Technology news – Page 107
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NewsSiemens launches RailFusion big data asset monitoring software
USA: Siemens launched its RailFusion asset monitoring software at Railway Interchange 2015. Designed to remotely monitor and analyse data from a wide range of Siemens and third-party assets including level crossing equipment and end-of-train devices, the technology is currently being piloted in North America. Siemens said RailFusion would provide ...
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NewsCummins delivers first QSK95 locomotive engine
USA: Cummins has shipped the first production QSK95 diesel engine built to a rail specification. The QSK95 is to power the 35 Charger passenger locomotives ordered by the states of Illinois, California, Michigan, Missouri and Washington and now under construction at the Siemens plant in Sacramento, as well as future ...
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NewsEMD unveils its first Tier 4 diesel locomotive
USA: The first of six pre-production Tier 4 compliant diesel locomotives being built by the Electro-Motive Diesel subsidiary of Progress Rail Services was unveiled at the Railway Interchange 2015 exhibition in Minneapolis on October 4. On show at the outdoor display in BNSF’s Northtown Yard, the SD70ACe-T4 locomotive is powered ...
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NewsProgress Rail to buy Rail Product Solutions
USA: Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail Services Corp announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to purchase track fastening supplier Rail Product Solutions Inc from Amsted Rail Co on September 29. Completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory approval. The acquisition ‘expands our portfolio of track related products and ...
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NewsSiemens opens locomotive servicing and data analysis centres
GERMANY: Bayern Transport Minister Joachim Herrmann and Siemens Mobility CEO Jochen Eickholt officially opened a locomotive service centre at the manufacturer’s München-Allach plant on October 1. Siemens says the new 2000 m2 covered hall will enable it to undertake locomotive manufacturing and maintenance at a single location for the first ...
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NewsAlstom to supply Swedish national traffic management system
SWEDEN: Trafikverket has awarded Alstom a €66m contract to design, supply and maintain an Iconis traffic management system covering its entire network. The contract announced on September 30 will run for eight years, with an option for a further nine, and has been awarded as part of a wider ...
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NewsMechan traversers commissioned at Hitachi Rail plant
UK: The Hitachi Rail rolling stock plant at Newton Aycliffe, which was officially opened by Prime Minister David Cameron on September 3, has two 80 tonne traversers designed and built by Sheffield-based company Mechan to move vehicles between 33 tracks inside the facility and out to the test area. ...
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NewsBirmingham and Beijing plan joint high speed rail research
INTERNATIONAL: Plans for a joint international high speed railway research laboratory have been announced by the UK’s University of Birmingham and China’s Beijing Jiaotong University, which signed a research co-operation agreement on September 17. The laboratory would be run jointly by the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research & Education and ...
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NewsUK Railcards to be available as mobile apps
UK: The Association of Train Operating Companies has invited tenders for a contract to develop a mobile phone app which can store the range of Railcards which offer discounts on National Rail passenger services. ATOC said it aims to introduce the app in April 2016, making applying for and ...
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NewsØstfold ETCS pilot line goes live
NORWAY: Services on an 80 km section of the Østfoldbanen southeast of Oslo are now running under ETCS Level 2, following the formal commissioning of the first phase of Jernbaneverket’s national ERTMS roll-out. The ETCS installation on the plot line between Ski and Sarpsborg was inaugurated by Transport Minister Ketil ...
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NewsMobile Maintenance Train enters service
UK: The first of eight self-propelled Mobile Maintenance Trains which Robel is supplying to infrastructure manager Network Rail has entered service. The key feature of the MMT is the extendable cover over the floodlit working area, which provides staff with protection from the weather and from trains passing on ...
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NewsCommuter prognosticator avoids delays which haven’t happened yet
SWEDEN: Mathematician Wilhelm Landerholm of Queue AB and Stockholm commuter train operator Stockholmståg have developed an algorithm which can be used to forecast potential delays, helping network control staff to make decisions which will minimise the potential impact and also prevent ripple effects before they would have occurred. Real-time feeds ...
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NewsMetrolinx orders computer-based integrated control system
CANADA: Regional transport agency Metrolinx has awarded Alstom a €113m contract to provide a computer-based integrated train control system covering the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area. Commissioning is scheduled for late 2018. Announcing the contract on September 10, Alstom said its Iconis technology would provide a single control centre ...
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NewsTurkish GSM-R interoperability testing completed
TURKEY: Italian certification group RINA has successfully completed interoperability testing of the GSM-R base station sub-system access network supplied to national railway TCDD by Huawei, and the GSM-R network switching sub-system core network supplied by Nokia. Huawei said TCDD has typical multi-vendor GSM-R infrastructure, with Nokia, Kapsch and Huawei elements. ...
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NewsThe Digital Future is now arriving
RG:TV: Digital technology is set to play an increasing role in all aspects of the rail sector, according to panellists participating in the Railway Gazette TV interactive debate on The Digital Future. Broadcast from London’s Tower Bridge Studio on September 9, the discussion attracted almost 500 registered viewers from 50 ...
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NewsRussian signalling R&D agreement
RUSSIA: An agreement to establish a signalling R&D centre by the end of the year was signed by Alstom, Transmashholding and the NIIAS and Skolkovo Foundation research organisations during the Expo 1520 trade fair. The R&D centre is to be located at the Skolkovo technology cluster near Moscow. According ...
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NewsThales adopts open-source ERTMS testing tool
GERMANY: Signalling and train control supplier Thales Deutschland has agreed to use the ERTMSFormalSpecs open-source modelling tool to test braking curves in the development of its onboard unit for the ETCS Baseline 3 specifications. Tool developer ERTMS Solutions announced on September 9 that it had signed an agreement with Thales ...
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NewsTickets with a flick of the wrist
PAYMENT: NFC contactless payment devices for public transport applications have been launched by FEIG Electronics and PureWrist. FEIG's cVEND plug is designed for seamless integration into validation terminals, and cVEND box for mounting in a kiosk, terminal or ticket gate, with or without a display. 'cVEND is ideal for ...
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NewsDIANA to monitor DB Netz turnouts
GERMANY: Strukton Systems has won a contract to supply more than 90 data loggers for the DIANA remote monitoring and analysis platform which has been developed by infrastructure manager DB Netz to provide supplier-independent asset condition data. Strukton will supply a customised version of its microPOSS data loggers, with ...
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NewsHitachi Information Control Systems Europe formed
UK: The Railway Engineering Co was renamed as Hitachi Information Control Systems Europe Ltd with effect from September 1. The signalling, operations, simulator and automatic route-setting software company was acquired by Hitachi in December 2012, and is now Hitachi’s traffic management systems integrator for the European market. The company’s ...