Railway Age

NEXT-GEN TRAIN CONTROL CONFERENCE: Tech Convergence

RAILWAY AGE NOVEMBER 2022 ISSUE: Transit or freight? As technology progresses, differences will go away. On Oct. 20-21, I attended the 2022 edition of the annual Railway Age/Parsons-Next-Gen Train ...
Railway Age

Thoughts on CBTC’s Future (Updated, With NGTC Conference Video and 1995 Railway Age Reprint)

Railway Age and Parsons held the 2023 Next-Generation Train Control Conference in Philadelphia on October 26 and 27. Dr. Alan Rumsey, one of the industry’s foremost, widely renowned experts on CBTC ...
Railway Technology

Mitsubishi to verify and test CBTC system for MTA New York City Transit

Japan-based Mitsubishi Electric has secured a contract from the MTA New York City Transit (NYCT) for the verification and testing of interoperability with the existing communications-based train ...
Business Insider

A new technology designed to help one of NYC's most crowded subway lines went live for less than an hour before something broke — and commuters were furious

At long last, modern signaling went live on a line of New York City’s subway that desperately needs any relief it can get. Communications-based train control, or CBTC for short, has been in the works ...
Railway Technology

Alstom to deliver CBTC technology for Indian Metro

Alstom wins $100m contract to supply train control and signalling solutions for Pune and Mumbai Metros. Credit: Alstom. French rail firm Alstom has won contracts worth over $101.1m (€90m) to supply ...