EFACEC, Portugal, has been awarded contract worth more than €25m to supply and install electromechanical systems on Dublin's €368m Cross City Line, which will link the Luas light rail Red and Green lines in Dublin city centre.
GOTHENBURG Tramways has invited expressions of interest for a contract to supply up to 100 low-floor LRVs with an initial order for 40 vehicles, which will replace the oldest trams in the city's fleet.
WARSAW Tramways signed a Zlotys 167.9m ($US 54.8m) contract with Pesa, Poland on January 15 for 30 type 134N Jazz low-floor LRVs, which will be used on lower-density routes in the city.
THE FIRST of 31 Škoda type 26THU3 ForCity low-floor LRVs for Hungary's third-largest city Miskolc entered service on Line 1 on January 20 following the completion of more than 11,000km of endurance testing.
ALSTOM has announced plans to invest €15m in new assembly line at its Taubaté hydro manufacturing plant in the Brazilian state of São Paulo to produce light rail vehicles for the South American market.
TEL AVIV Metropolitan Mass Transit System (NTA) announced on January 13 that four international consortia have prequalified for the railway systems contract for the city's planned 22km light rail Red Line from Petakh-Tikva to Bat Yam.
THE FRENCH city of Besançon celebrated a milestone in the construction of its low-cost light rail network on January 15, when test operation began on the city centre section between Planoise and Viotte stations.
MILAN public transport company ATM has awarded Italian construction company Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti (CMC) a contract to reconstruct the Milan-Desio-Seregno suburban tram line, which was closed in October 2011.
STUTTGART Tramways (SSB) has ordered an additional 20 Tango S-DT8.12 high-floor LRVs from Stadler Pankow, exercising an option from an initial contract for 20 vehicles, which was signed in January 2010.
THE sustained growth in public transport usage in Brussels in recent years has mirrored a rapid increase in the city's population, which swelled from 960,000 in 2000 to 1.14 million in 2012 and is expected to reach 1.31 million this year.