TRIAL passenger operation began on May 18 on the first metro line in Fuzhou, the capital of China's southeastern Fujian province.
ALBTAL Transport Company (AVG) and Karlsruhe Transport Authority (VBK) have awarded a €59.5m contract to Bombardier for a further 12 Flexity Swift ET 2010 tram-trains.
THE inaugural trial run of India's first metro train to be equipped for Unattended Train Operation (UTO) was flagged off by India's urban development minister Mr M Venkaiah Naidu and the chief minister of Delhi Mr Arvind Kejriwal in a ceremony at Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's Mukundpur depot on May 17.
ZÜRICH City Council and the Transport Council of the Canton of Zürich have approved the acquisition of 70 metre-gauge Flexity 2 LRVs from Bombardier to replace the ageing Tram 2000 fleet introduced in the 1970s.
BELARUS Railways (BC) has confirmed it will launch electric passenger services on the line from the capital Minsk to the country's second-largest city Gomel on June 3.
FOUR companies will finally compete for a framework contract to supply and maintain a fleet of up to 30 very high-speed trains in the first open tender launched by Spanish national train operator Renfe in more than a decade.
Railroad Development Corporation, United States, is continuing to increase its footprint in the European market. RDC chairman, Henry Posner III, outlines the company's recent experiences to Keith Fender.
THE Australian Capital Territory (Act) government has awarded a $A 710m ($US 515.4m) public-private partnership (PPP) contract to the Canberra Metro consortium to build, operate and maintain the initial 12km phase of Canberra's light rail network from Gungahlin to the city centre.
SHANGHAI Shentong Metro Group has awarded a €46m contract to Alstom to modernise 68 metro cars operating on Line 5 of the Shanghai metro and to supply traction equipment for 198 new cars.
THE US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that the driver of a Washington DC - New York Amtrak Northeast Regional train which derailed near Philadelphia on May 12 2015 was likely to have been distracted by radio traffic causing him to forget where he was.
