HUNGARIAN prime minister Mr Viktor Orbán and the mayor of Budapest Mr István Tarlós officially opened Line 4 today, Budapest's first automatic metro line.
COWI, Denmark, announced on March 24 that it has acquired Apsilon, a Danish consultancy specialising in ERTMS projects.
ZAMBIA Railways Limited (ZRL) has selected a consortium of Bombardier, Huawei and local contractor GMC Technologies in a $US 51m contract to supply and install ERTMS Regional on the 980km Chingola - Livingstone line.
TURKEY's prime minister, Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan, opened Line M2 of the Ankara metro on March 13. This follows hot on the heels of the opening of Line M3 by the premier on February 12.
THE expansion of Positive Train Control and upgrading of a key section of the Washington DC – New York – Boston Northeast Corridor (NEC) for 257km/h operation are among the highlights of Amtrak's 2014 infrastructure programme, which was announced on March 10.
THE first three lines of the 12-line Moscow Metro are now equipped with free-to-use WiFi, and the entire 325.5km 194 station network should be fully fitted by September.
SPANISH infrastructure manager Adif last week approved the tendering of a contract to design, install and maintain signaling and telecommunications equipment on the Madrid-Galicia high-speed rail line, with a total value of €640.8m.
EXPRESSIONS of interest have been invited by London Underground (LU) for a fleet of 250 trains for operation on four of its deep-level lines under its "New Tube for London" project.
SPAIN's Ministry of Public Works (Fomento) has approved €280m of funding to equip the under-construction Grenada – Antequera high-speed line, enabling infrastructure manager Adif to invite tenders.
Zhengzhou's metro is the first network in the world to utilise a 4G LTE communications platform. Kevin Smith travelled to China to witness the system in action.
