PARIS Transport Authority (RATP) and Ile-de-France transport authority Stif have awarded Alstom a contract worth around €20m to supply and install automatic train operation (ATO) on Paris RER Line A as part of a project to increase capacity on one of the city's busiest rail arteries.

IRJ at UITP 2015, Milan: Thales unveiled its new TransCity modular fare collection system at the UTP exhibition which it says is the first in the world to be cloud-ready.

The construction of a circular light rail line in Kaohsiung will bring more residents and businesses in Taiwan's second city within easy reach of the rail network, as James Chuang explains.

Think of urban rail investment in Paris and the ambitious Grand Paris express metro project probably springs to mind. However, a rolling programme of light rail construction is continually extending the tram network into more areas of the city. Keith Barrow outlines the next phase of development.

THE city of Berlin and the state government of Brandenburg announced on June 3 that they will directly award two of three contracts for the operation of the Berlin S-Bahn network to German Rail (DB).
Contracts for the operation of the network were split into three following unsuccessful attempts to tender these services.

THE final section of 42km of bored tunnels for London's Crossrail project has been completed allowing fitting out to commence. The £14.8bn project is now 65% complete, within budget, and on target to open in 2018.

RIO de Janeiro's suburban operator SuperVia recently completed phase 1 of its programme to upgrade its Central do Brazil terminal and 102 outlying stations, with work including the installation of Harman's IDX Information Delivery System at key stations on the network.

THE board of Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (Septa) has approved the acquisition of 13 ACS-64 electric locomotives from Siemens as part of its budget for the 2015-16 financial year, which starts on July 1.

BIDDING has opened for the track improvement project on Philippine National Railways (PNR), worth Peso 144.3bn ($US 3.2m), in an attempt to revive and improve Southeast Asia’s oldest railway system.

PLANS have been announced by Eng Irit Shperber, director of transport planning in Israel's Transport Ministry, for the construction of a tram-train line between Haifa Lev-Ha-Migrate, Kiryat-Ata, Shefaram, and Nazareth.