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KfW IPEX-Bank funds Sustainable Rail Expansion in Norway
KfW IPEX-Bank funds Sustainable Rail Expansion in Norway In a significant stride towards sustainable transportation, KfW IPEX-Bank has announced the provision of a green loan facility totalling NOK 1,...
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The next ten years could be a Decade of Rail in the US
The next ten years could be a Decade of Rail in the US Arthur D. Little has published its latest report, Rail 2040, which explores the key trends reshaping the industry, assesses the general market en...
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United States Steel Corp pioneers Battery-Powered Locomotives
United States Steel Corp pioneers Battery-Powered Locomotives United States Steel Corporation announced today a significant step in its ongoing commitment to sustainability, environmental excellence a...
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Balancing Railroad Level Crossing Safety and Performance
Balancing Railroad Level Crossing Safety and Performance Today, the rail industry has multiple digital capabilities for the most precise asset monitoring and efficient railroad maintenance. The fact t...
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Improving Train Safety with IoT-Based Remote Monitoring
Improving Train Safety with IoT-Based Remote Monitoring Spanning 140,00 miles and supporting 167,000 jobs nationwide, the freight and passenger rail systems are a significant strength of the US econom...
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Japan’s Technological Maglev Rail Renaissance
Japan’s Technological Maglev Rail Renaissance Japan stands tall as a global leader in engineering research and technology, with technological achievements that are second to none. Yet, Japan...
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Grand Paris Rail Project powered by Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and Nokia
Grand Paris Rail Project powered by Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and Nokia Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and Nokia have partnered together to power the Grand Paris Express, one of Europe’s largest metro rail...
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EIB invests €30m in MERMEC’s Railway Digital Transformation in Italy
EIB invests €30m in MERMEC’s Railway Digital Transformation in Italy In a strategic move to bolster Italy’s rail infrastructure modernization, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has commit...
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The Himalayan Marvel – China’s Grand Railway Ambition
The Himalayan Marvel – China’s Grand Railway Ambition In the heart of the Himalayan region, where China’s Tibet meets the borders of Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, and neighbouring...
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Virtual Sound Simulation to analyse Railway Noise Impact
Virtual Sound Simulation to analyse Railway Noise Impact It is often a nuisance for residents living near railroad lines – and such a multi-faceted challenge for experts that there should be more than...
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Delhi Metro uses Digital Modelling to add 62km of Railway
Delhi Metro uses Digital Modelling to add 62km of Railway India’s city of Delhi is actually made up of two cities. To the north is Old Delhi, the historic city, and the south is New Delhi, the capital...
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Sacyr wins Misterbianco-Paterno Railway Contract in Sicily
Sacyr wins Misterbianco-Paterno Railway Contract in Sicily The Italian Ministry for Infrastructure and Transport awarded SIS consortium (51% Fininc and 49% Sacyr) a railway development contract in Cat...
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KfW IPEX-Bank finances new Polish Intermodal Railcars
KfW IPEX-Bank finances new Polish Intermodal Railcars KfW IPEX-Bank is financing a pool of new freight cars for the Polish freight wagon lessor Eurowagon. The financing is being used to procure up to...
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Accenture acquires ATI Solutions Group to Automate Field Operations in Australia
Accenture acquires ATI Solutions Group to Automate Field Operations in Australia Accenture has acquired ATI Solutions Group, a Perth-based consulting service provider to the mining, energy and rail in...
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Cones and High-Speed Rail educates children on HS2
Cones and High-Speed Rail educates children on HS2 The Cones Team have done it again! Working with Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial and BAM, a new Cones book has just been published, which tells children abo...
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Aeva enables safe Autonomous Train Technology for Railergy
Aeva enables safe Autonomous Train Technology for Railergy Aeva, a leader in next-generation sensing and perception systems, today announced that Railergy, a leading supplier of railway system automat...
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New high-speed train opens from Rome to Pompeii
New high-speed train opens from Rome to Pompeii A direct train service from Rome to Pompeii in under two hours: thanks to an agreement between the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Italian State Rai...
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Three more Rail Transit Lines in China adopt Hytera Communication Technology
Three more Rail Transit Lines in China adopt Hytera Communication Technology Hytera Communications, a leading global provider of professional communications technologies and solutions, has completed t...
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Cincoze DX-1200 Industrial Computer crucial to Modern Rail Transportation
Cincoze DX-1200 Industrial Computer crucial to Modern Rail Transportation Rail transportation plays a crucial role in many modern transportation networks. It’s essential to ensure that rail tran...
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New Edinburgh Tram Line Continuation completed by Sacyr
New Edinburgh Tram Line Continuation completed by Sacyr Today, the Council of Edinburgh has opened the continuation of the tram line connecting the city center to Newhaven district. The project was de...
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25th Asia Pacific Rail headlined by Governor of Bangkok Chadchart Sittipunt
25th Asia Pacific Rail headlined by Governor of Bangkok Chadchart Sittipunt The Governor of Bangkok, Chadchart Sittipunt, will deliver the opening keynote address at the upcoming Asia Pacific Rail 202...
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Siemens Mobility investing $220m in North Carolina Rail Manufacturing
Siemens Mobility investing $220m in North Carolina Rail Manufacturing Siemens Mobility, the Unites States’ largest passenger rolling stock manufacturer, will expand its manufacturing footprint by buil...
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Atkins wins Design Contract for Dublin’s MetroLink Project
Atkins wins Design Contract for Dublin’s MetroLink Project Atkins, a member of the SNC Lavalin Group, has been appointed by Transport Infrastructure Ireland to deliver the detailed design for th...
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UK’s largest rail re-signalling scheme in Cambridge supported by Telent
UK’s largest rail re-signalling scheme in Cambridge supported by Telent One of the largest re-signalling schemes undertaken in the UK, the Cambridge Re-signalling project, will be supported by d...
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Smart Sensors could prevent metal thieves running off with the rails
Smart Sensors could prevent metal thieves running off with the rails Cable theft costs the UK taxpayer millions of pounds each year—and that’s just for infrastructure repairs. The total cost to the ec...
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EIB investing €50m to modernise and expand rail transport in Valencia
EIB investing €50m to modernise and expand rail transport in Valencia The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the region of Valencia have signed a €50 million finance contract for Ferrocarrils de la Ge...
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Czech Railway to use Ness Digital Maps built on Hexagon technology
Czech Railway to use Ness Digital Maps built on Hexagon technology Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division announced Ness Czech, a leading Czech system integrator and supplier of IT...
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HS2 Box Bridge Slide installed over the M42 by Balfour Beatty VINCI
HS2 Box Bridge Slide installed over the M42 by Balfour Beatty VINCI Balfour Beatty VINCI has celebrated a world-first as around 450 of its people slid a 12,600 tonne bridge required for HS2, a record...
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Alstom Electric Train Solutions to include Actasys Thermal Management Devices
Alstom Electric Train Solutions to include Actasys Thermal Management Devices Actasys Inc., a leader in safeguarding sensor functionality in real-world applications, announced today they have entered...
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HyperloopTT becoming a publicly listed company to focus on the future
HyperloopTT becoming a publicly listed company to focus on the future Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a leading transportation and technology licensing company focused on realizing the hyperloo...
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Hytera co-developing Railway Communication System in Kazakhstan
Hytera co-developing Railway Communication System in Kazakhstan Hytera Communications, a leading global provider of professional communications technologies and solutions, announced today it has signe...
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EIB helping Czech Republic to modernise Local Railway Networks
EIB helping Czech Republic to modernise Local Railway Networks European Investment Bank (EIB), the bank of the European Union, and the Government of the Czech Republic agreed to accelerate cooperation...
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Euston Station installs high-definition Departure Boards
Euston Station installs high-definition Departure Boards High-definition passenger information screens are being installed at London Euston station over the coming weeks so real-time testing can take...
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AECOM led JV providing Management Support for California High-Speed Rail program
AECOM led JV providing Management Support for California High-Speed Rail program AECOM, the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, announced today that its joint venture has been selected by...
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EIB to finance €372m to extend line 11 of Madrid Metro
EIB to finance €372m to extend line 11 of Madrid Metro The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Community of Madrid (CAM) have agreed EIB financing of €554 million split into two operations that wil...
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ETT celebrates completion of heavy-duty Railway Project in Mongolia
ETT celebrates completion of heavy-duty Railway Project in Mongolia The completion of the Erdenes-Tavantolgoi (ETT) Tavantolgoi-Gashuunsukhait Railway Project has been hailed as a milestone of co-oper...
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Rail Innovation Cluster launched at Innotrans by University of Birmingham
Rail Innovation Cluster launched at Innotrans by University of Birmingham A new home for businesses looking to deliver innovation into the rail sector has been launched today by the University of Birm...
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Safeguarding South Western Railway with Perimeter Security
Safeguarding South Western Railway with Perimeter Security South Western Railway is one of the largest train operating companies working under the umbrella of Network Rail. Running from its London Wat...
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Liebherr on track for InnoTrans 2022
Liebherr on track for InnoTrans 2022 Rail vehicles are among the safest and most sustainable means of transport worldwide. The many advantages that rail already offers in terms of environmental friend...
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Hong Kong’s historic Peak Tram back on track after Makeover
Hong Kong’s historic Peak Tram back on track after Makeover The Peak Tram, Asia’s oldest funicular railway and a must-visit attraction in Hong Kong, takes visitors on a spell-binding ride to the...
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Sweco wins additional Stockholm Metro contracts
Sweco wins additional Stockholm Metro contracts Sweco has won additional contracts in connection with the expansion of Stockholm’s metro between Fridhemsplan and Älvsjö. The project supports sustainab...
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New NVIDIA Jetson based embedded system designed for Railway applications
New NVIDIA Jetson based embedded system designed for Railway applications As a Preferred Partner in the NVIDIA® Partner Network, Syslogic is offering AI-assisted embedded computers. The company’s AI R...
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Moving Heavy Freight from Road to Rail
Moving Heavy Freight from Road to Rail Moving heavy freight off our road systems and into the rail network is to be the focus of new collaborations between the University of Birmingham and transport c...
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Modified Rail Cars could capture energy under breaking and deceleration
Modified Rail Cars could capture energy under breaking and deceleration Rail systems around the world could help mitigate climate change and clean the air of CO2 by capturing the sustainable energy ge...
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OptiFuel transitioning 400 Freight Locomotive Fleet in Argentina
OptiFuel transitioning 400 Freight Locomotive Fleet in Argentina OptiFuel Systems, a decarbonization solutions provider of products and systems for eliminating emissions in the rail, marine, and power...
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Kazakhstan Railway improves Safety and Efficiency with Hytera TETRA Communications
Kazakhstan Railway improves Safety and Efficiency with Hytera TETRA Communications JSC “NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy”, the national operator of the main railway network of the Republic of Kaz...
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Italian Rail Agency recognised by ESRI for Modernizing Infrastructure
Italian Rail Agency recognised by ESRI for Modernizing Infrastructure Last year, the Italian rail agency Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) built an application using geographic information system (GIS)...
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Thornton Tomasetti propels futuristic transport with HyperloopTT investment
Thornton Tomasetti propels futuristic transport with HyperloopTT investment HyperloopTT has announced a financial investment from Thornton Tomasetti, a leading global scientific and engineering consul...
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University of Birmingham and RazorSecure partner to address rail cyber security
University of Birmingham and RazorSecure partner to address rail cyber security The University of Birmingham’s Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) have signed a Memorandum of...
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BNSF Railway improves Track Efficiency in San Bernardino
BNSF Railway improves Track Efficiency in San Bernardino At its meeting last week, the San Bernardino City Council voted to certify the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for BNSF’s proposed gap...
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