ITALIAN State Railways (FS) confirmed on June 9 that it has acquired a 36.7% stake in Milan Metro Line M5 concessionaire Metro 5 from Astaldi, making it the lead shareholder in the consortium.

ARGENTINA’s transport minister Mr Guillermo Dietrich and the chief of government of Buenos Aires Mr Rodríguez Larreta officially launched construction on a project to elevate part of the city’s San Martín Line on June 8.

THE Italian region of Tuscany has renewed its contract with Tuscan Railway Transport (TFT), which operates passenger and freight services in the Province of Arezzo.

HELSINKI City Transport (HKL) has published renderings of the initial conceptual design for the fleet of Artic XL low-floor LRVs for the Raide-Jokeri light rail line between Helsinki and the neighbouring city of Espoo.

ANSALDO has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Copenhagen metro operator Metroselskabet to develop a proof of concept for a new Dynamic Headway Solution, which will be designed using Ansaldo’s train control systems and Hitachi’s digitalisation and Internet of Things (IoT) technology to detect congestion through sensors at stations.

THE board of trustees of Oklahoma City transport authority Embark signed a contract with Herzog Transit Services on June 2 for the operation and maintenance of the Oklahoma City Streetcar, which is due to open at the end of 2018.

DALIAN’s metro network reached 160km on June 7 with the start of trial operation on three newly-completed extensions.

WITH just 25 days remaining before the start of commercial operations on the Bretagne-Pays de la Loire and Sud Europ Atlantique high-speed lines, French National Railways (SNCF) carried out parallel high-speed test runs using two TGV sets on June 7.

EUROTEM, the Turkish joint venture of Hyundai Rotem and Tüvasaş, has delivered the first of 17 trains for Istanbul metro Line M2.

CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles has rolled out the first of 40 Citadis low-floor LRVs for Chengdu light rail Line 2.