This week’s round-up of news from the global urban transport sector. Newly elected Ulsan Mayor Kim Sang-wook has initiated a review of the city’s 10.9 km tramway project, where preliminary ...

USA: Secovia Capital has acquired Genesis Rail’s vegetation inspection and management services business Ferrovia from Auxo Investment Partners. Genesis Rail provides outsourced infrastructure ...

INVITATION TO PRE-QUALIFY WITH RESPECT TO PARTICIPATION IN A TENDER FOR THE EXECUTION OF INFRA #2 WORKS OF THE TEL AVIV METROPOLITAN METRO LINES 1. NTA – Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd. (“NTA”), ...

SWITZERLAND: The Swiss Federal Administrative Court has ruled in favour of Ermewa, GATX and VTG in a long-running dispute with federal transport office BAV about the rules applying to railway wagons ...

BULGARIA: A large-scale modernisation of Bulgaria’s railways has now begun, Minister of Transport & Communications Georgi Peev said when he marked the entry into service of the first of a fleet of new ...

This week’s round-up of news from the global urban transport sector. The last of 85 six-car C2 metro trainsets supplied to München by Siemens Mobility’s Wien plant under orders placed from 2010 to ...

UK: Industry regulator the Office of Rail & Road has pre-approved a framework track access agreement which will enable Virgin Trains to use the high speed line between London and the Channel Tunnel.

Siemens Mobility has developed Signaling X, a cloud-based architecture aimed at accelerating the roll-out of digital train control technologies in main line and mass transit environments by becoming ...

SLOVAKIA: A Leo Express passenger train collided with a truck near the Slovak capital of Bratislava. The truck driver was killed while the resulting derailment left more than 20 passengers injured.

LITHUANIA: LTG Infra has broken ground on a €37m military mobility project at the Palemonas terminal near Kaunas which is served by both standard and broad gauge tracks. The site will be turned into a ...

AUSTRIA: Testing has begun of the first Railjet push-pull trainsets to be delivered to Austrian Federal Railways (RG 11.07 p713). ÖBB placed a €245m order for an intial 23 trains with Siemens in ...

SPAIN: Basque regional train operator Euskotren has opened an underground section of line between Altza and Galtzaraborda, east of San Sebastián on July 18. The bypass eliminates a bottleneck on the ...