Editor’s Note: Railway Age and Parsons will hold the 2023 Next-Generation Train Control Conference in Philadelphia on October 26 and 27. Dr. Alan Rumsey, one of the industry’s foremost, widely ...

Dr. Alan F. Rumsey, P.Eng., FIRSE, has spent his entire career in railway signaling and communications, and is one of the driving forces behind CBTC (communications-based train control) for rail ...

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 ...

Signal technology rolling out on New York’s subways is too far behind the curve, Gov. Cuomo gripes. “There’s better technology out there” than the communications-based train control system at the ...

10 December 2018 - Alstom has been awarded a contract by Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) to supply a CBTC [1] signalling system for Line 3 of the Mumbai Metro. The contract, which builds ...

The East Japan Railway Company (JR East) has awarded a contract to Thales to design a communications-based train control system (CBTC) for Tokyo’s 30km-long Joban suburban line. The new CBTC system ...

As of 2015, the New York subway still uses a train control system that was introduced in 1930. This system has supported the New York subway for 80 years, but to address problems such as the ...

As the civil work of Patna metro rail project has been advancing in Corridor II (Patna station-Patliputra Bus Terminal), the experts of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC), the nodal ...

The railways have gone slow on an anti-collision system that could have prevented the Kanchenjunga Express crash in north Bengal because of the cost involved but a more advanced system is in place in ...

Siemens has emerged as the lowest bidder for the communication-based train control system (CBTC) for the Joka-Esplanade Purple Line (or Line 3) and New Garia-Airport Orange Line (or Line 6) Metro ...