TRAIN driving simulation specialists Corys, a subsidiary of Areva (66%) and EDF (34%), and RSI, a subsidiary of IFP training, have agreed to merge.

ELBIT Systems, alongside its French partner Corys, announced on January 12 that it has won a tender to build simulators to train Israel Railways’ (IR) drivers.

Japan's Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) is developing groups of railway simulators that create a realistic representation of the underlying operating environment in order to offer a comprehensive analysis of phenomena that are difficult to analyse using a single simulator, as Ikeda Mitsuru, director of RTRI's Railway Dynamics Division, explains.

Lift, Italy, is pioneering a new approach to timetable planning which is reducing the impact of delays on operations, as Marco Chiandoni explains.