Free wireless internet access is being made available to first class passengers on some Montréal - Toronto VIA Rail services as part of a four-month trial by Bell Canada, Intel and PointShot Wireless.
Suzhou Schindler Elevator Co has won a 66m yuan contract to supply 97 escalators to Guangzhou Metro. Installation will begin in November 2004 for completion in 2005.
Over 400 Romanian stations are being fitted with the RAD Data Communications Multiservice Access Platform to provide access to CFR’s optic fibre network.
Netherlands Railways plans to introduce a surcharge for tickets bought from staffed booking offices, to encourage passengers to use self-service ticket machines.
A quarter of passengers using UK on-line ticket retailer Qjump.co.uk are now using a ticket-on-departure service launched in July. Tickets bought at least 9 h in advance can be collected from booking offices and self-service machines at over 50 stations.
Public address systems at 12 stations on the UK Wales & Borders franchise have been updated by Fone Alarm Installations using equipment from Application Solutions.
