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April 21, 2025 | Signalling

R2Dato: accelerating the digitalisation and automation of Europe’s railway network

A major Europe’s Rail research project is underway to deliver automatic train operation (ATO) on the mainline network in order to increase capacity and reduce costs. Robert Preston reports on FP2-R2Dato.

April 15, 2025 | Commuter Rail

S-Bahn Hamburg awards ETCS contract

Alstom will provide onboard ETCS and ATO equipment for 82 class 490 EMUs.

December 10, 2024 | Metros

Chennai Metro orders 70 trains from BEML

New three-car trains will mainly operate under ATO at Grade of Automation 4.

December 3, 2024 | Technology

CAF completes mainline ATO at GoA4 trials in the Netherlands

Trials have included fully autonomous shunting in driverless mode.

September 13, 2024 | Passenger

Škoda turns autonomous LRV vision into reality

Projects in Pilsen and Tampere demonstrate the significant progress made by Škoda Group in developing autonomous operation for LRVs, as Robert Preston discovers.

October 6, 2023 | Innovations

IRJ Innovations Showcase 2023: Shift2Rail

The fourth and final part of our round-up of the latest railway technologies and innovations focuses on notable contributions from Europe's Shift2Rail joint research programme, which will conclude at the end of the year.

September 6, 2023 | Fleet

First Turkish driverless metro train delivered

The train is designed for operation on the new Gebze - Darica automated metro line southeast of Istanbul.

May 30, 2023 | Signalling

JR East and JR West announce mainline ATO cooperation

The two railways are working jointly to develop and deploy ATO on the Hokuriku Shinkansen.

April 18, 2023 | Technology

JR Central trials ATO at GoA2 on Tokaido Shinkansen

The system will be trialled on May 10.

March 27, 2023 | Passenger

IRJ news in brief - Transit

Chennai CBTC contract for Hitachi, Oslo tunnel contract for Implena, and new light rail lines inaugurated in Turkey, Poland and Austria.

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