The need for high productivity, short maintenance intervals and optimised operating process are placing increased demands on personnel protection. Live overhead wires in workshops for trains, trams and trolley buses create a significant potential hazard
Rail is a major UK industry with excellent employment economics. It has the potential to be a significant engine for job creation and economic growth during this economic downturn.
Rail is a major employer in the UK, with approximately
268,000
In this research paper we examine over 30 published sources to compare the costs and capacity increases
provided by a range of real world transport infrastructure projects. This information was also supplemented by
interviews with people in government
Crown International, a specialist designer and fabricator of metal products for the rail safety, road safety and enforcement industries, has introduced the new Crown SmartPole. Whilst this maintains the advantages of the original Crown Pole, the enhanced,
Railway network operators are constantly faced with the challenge of enhancing the technical and commercial aspects of network operation. Standardisation of transmission procedures has created the conditions for optimising data networks. As a result,
Cactus have been supplying traffic management
systems to Nordic railway operators since
the early 1990s.
Our traffic management system (TMS) is tested and completely proven
and has the capacity to control virtually
any network, however
Thales delivers a unique range of solutions to meet the global needs
of urban, road and rail networks for both urban areas and the countryside.
Safety and security is a core business for Thales. It involves 20,000 people in 35 countries
With one in two of the world's population living in cities, the need for non-stop urban and inter-city transport has never been greater. Road and rail networks become busier daily, and congestion, pollution and the risk of accidents increases exponentially.
As
This whitepaper provides details of man of the services offered to the railway industry by Thales including integrated fare systems, trackside real-time information systems, station information, ticketing, SmartCard and revenue management systems,
Hot bearings and dragging brakes are costly, time-consuming challenges facing passenger and transit operators around the world.
Fortunately, the FÜS II from GE Transportation offers precise,innovative, wayside-based detection of overheated
At noon on the 28th March 2005, the first test train
was run over the new signalling on the Sheerness branch
resignalling scheme with the full branch line and signal
box control panel being signed into service 14 hours
later. This was the culmination
