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Swiss Federal Railways (SBB/CFF/FFS) and Alstom, have begun conducting test runs where personnel operate a locomotive remotely without disrupting regular operations. These tests, using Automatic Train Operation (ATO)…
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB/CFF/FFS) and Alstom, have begun conducting test runs where personnel operate a locomotive remotely without disrupting regular operations. These tests, using Automatic Train Operation (ATO)…
Cecilie Bjørlykke and Ingar Østerby, both Senior Advisers at the Norwegian Railway Directorate (NRD), shed light on Norway’s exploration of integrating Automatic Train Operation (ATO) with its European…
Solutions provider Railergy has chosen Aeva’s FMCW 4D LiDAR technology for its automatic train operation system, adding instant velocity data and high-resolution sensing to identify obstacles.
OTIV, a Belgian provider of autonomous technology for rail, on Friday announced a multi-year contract for running automated and remotely controlled freight trains on the Betuweroute freight line…
Alstom, Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail and rail freight company Lineas on Tuesday demonstrated the operation of a shunting locomotive on Grade of Automation (GoA) Level 4. Dutch sister…
German manufacturer of braking systems Knorr-Bremse and French technology company Thales are joining forces to develop further automated features of the Digital Freight Train (DFT). The two companies…
Since this week, passengers on metro line 4 in Paris can board fully automated metros. Equipped by Siemens Mobility, four automated vehicles with CBTC signaling at GoA 4…
As railways are viewed as key to sustainable mobility, the increase of rail’s modal share for both passenger and freight transport will cause congestion problems on many national…
Alstom, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the TU Berlin are moving their research project “Automated regional trains in Lower Saxony, Germany” to the next phase, the partners recently…
What if you could run more trains on a railway by coupling different trains while they are running? That is the aim of Israeli startup DirecTrainSystems (DTS), building…
Last year’s trial runs by Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail to test specific functionalities of Automatic Train Operation (ATO) have demonstrated the potential of the current ATO system to…
Siemens Mobility will work with Frankfurt transportation company VGF in refurbishing the city’s metro network with a Communication Based Train Control System (CBTC). The contract marks the first…
Railway engineering company Prose and consultancy Ricardo will join forces in developing a new set of requirements for Freight Automatic Train Operation (ATO) for DB Cargo, the two…
Czech-based Railway Research Institute VUZ plans to further upgrade its test tracks with ETCS and study the testing of autonomous trains. They will also install their own sources…
Russia will start test runs with a fully automated passenger train in the middle of 2023. This Lastochka train is currently being built by train manufacturers Siemens and…