Five years of work led by the International Union of Railways (UIC) to develop a successor to GSM-R are bearing fruit, with physical trials now underway of the first elements of the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS). Robert Preston reports from the Second UIC FRMCS Conference held in Paris on June 7-8.
FRMCS moves from concept to reality
Five years of work led by the International Union of Railways (UIC) to develop a successor to GSM-R are bearing fruit, with physical trials now underway of the first elements of the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS). Robert Preston reports from the Second UIC FRMCS Conference held in Paris on June 7-8.
Field trials have been testing prototypes of the Toba box. Photo: DB network