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October 29, 2020 | Signalling

CRRC Zhuzhou Institute releases fully automatic signalling system

CRRC Zhuzhou Institute released its fully automatic operation (FAO) tSafer-UC3000 signalling system during last week’s 2020 Beijing International Metro Transit Exhibition, which the company says provides a more comprehensive urban rail signalling solution.

September 11, 2020 | Fleet

Istanbul Metro to begin testing of new trains

TURKEY’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has announced that it will begin operational performance tests on the first of its new fleet of 44 four-car metro trains later this month.

August 9, 2019 | Freight

Rise of the machines: Rio Tinto breaks new ground with AutoHaul

Rio Tinto’s Pilbara iron-ore railway network is the world’s first automated heavy-haul freight railway. With trains now running unmanned, Kevin Smith looks at what made AutoHaul, the world’s largest robot, a reality.

July 11, 2019 | Locomotives

SNCF completes 4km test run of autonomous locomotive

FRENCH National Railways (SNCF) has completed the first test run of its autonomous train programme, with a locomotive hauling a flatbed wagon and a carriage travelling 4km between Villeneuve-Saint-Georges and Juvisy, Paris.

June 14, 2019 | Freight

Rio Tinto completes rollout of driverless heavy-haul freight system

RIO Tinto has completed the rollout of the $A 940m ($US 648.5m) AutoHaul driverless heavy-haul freight project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

May 10, 2019 | Technology

Potsdam autonomous light rail trial extended

THE autonomous tram trial in the German city of Potsdam has been expanded from the original 6km section of line in the city’s suburbs to 13km, extending all the way to the Line 96 terminus at Marie-Juchacz Strasse.

January 3, 2019 | Signalling

JR East starts ATO trials in Tokyo

EAST Japan Railway (JR East) started trials with automatic train operation (ATO) on the 34.5km circular Yamanote Line in Tokyo on December 29 as part of its plan to introduce driverless train operation under JR East’s Change 2027 initiative.

December 31, 2018 | Freight

Rio Tinto completes automation of Pilbara rail network

RIO Tinto announced on December 28 that it has successfully completed its $US 940m AutoHaul project to automate the operation of its 1700km heavy-haul rail network in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, which it says is now the “world’s largest robot and first automated heavy-haul, long-distance rail network.”

December 18, 2018 | Signalling

Swiss ATO pilot set for December 2019 launch

SWITZERLAND’s Southeastern Railway (SOB) announced on December 17 that a panel of judges has selected a winning concept for an Automatic Train Operation (ATO) pilot, which SOB is implementing as part of the Swiss Smartrail 4.0 programme.

December 11, 2018 | Light Rail

Automating Switzerland’s Waldenburg Railway

Prose has conducted a feasibility study into the phased automation of a narrow-gauge light rail line in Switzerland as part of a major upgrade. As Sandro Napoli, senior consultant at Prose explains, the project is expected to pave the way for future narrow-gauge railway automation in Switzerland.

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