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July 29, 2020 | Financial

Shift2Rail approves €75.4m funding for 19 projects

THE Shift2Rail (S2R) joint venture (JV) has announced that it will provide up to €75.4m in funding for 19 projects worth a total of €147.7m under the 2020 call for proposals for research and innovation (R&I) activities.

July 10, 2020 | Asia

New RTRI president sets out priorities

THE new president of Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI), Dr Ikuo Watanabe, has vowed to follow through with the principles of the institute’s Research 2025 agenda despite the “unprecedented predicament” posed to the industry by Covid-19.

June 17, 2020 | Technology

£9.4m awarded to 25 innovative British railway projects

BRITAIN’s Department for Transport (DfT) and Innovate UK have awarded £9.4m to 25 rail projects as part of the 2020 First of a Kind (FOAK) rail innovation competition.

May 1, 2020 | Light Rail

British group receives funding to develop low-cost LRT track system

THE Coventry Very Light Rail project has received £1.5m from West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to develop a low-cost light rail track system.

January 9, 2020 | Technology

Shift2Rail invites submissions for 2020 research projects

THE European Union’s Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R) has issued a call for proposals by April 21 for research and innovation projects within its 2020 work plan.

January 9, 2020 | Technology

RTRI prepares Research 2025 strategy

Dr Norimichi Kumagai, president, Railway Technical Research Institute, talks to Kevin Smith.

November 20, 2019 | Technology

British group develops autonomous wheel control system

SET, Britain, together with Vivarail, and Loughborough and Huddersfield universities, have developed an autonomous wheel control system called Acti-Wheel which they believe could revolutionise wheelset design.

October 28, 2019 | Technology

Shift2Rail launches inaugural Catalogue of Solutions

IRJ at WCRR 2019: Europe’s Shift2Rail joint technology research initiative has launched the inaugural edition of its Catalogue of Solutions, which executive director, Mr Carlo Borghini, says will offer railway executives and buyers a clearer picture of what the rail solutions of the future will look like.

September 27, 2019 | Technology

Network Rail expedites R&D with university framework agreements

BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has signed eight framework agreements worth a minimum of £10m with eight universities, which it says will help deliver its research and development (R&D) portfolio over the Control Period 6 (CP6) investment plan.

September 18, 2019 | Fleet

Birmingham University leases HST for alternative traction research

BRITISH rolling stock leasing company, Porterbrook, has agreed to lease a 200km/h diesel HST set to the University of Birmingham for its research into alternative power sources for trains and digital innovations.

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