POLAND: Infrastructure manager PKP PLK has awarded a consortium of Rail Management Consultants and Tata Steel Rail Consultancy a 1·57m złoty contract to create a virtual model of the rail network in Warszawa and Mazovia using RailSys software.
This is intended to enable improve train planning on the region’s complex network, providing tools for simulating and optimising train paths under various traffic conditions.
UK: Govia Thameslink Railway is testing digital 3D maps designed to help passengers, and particularly those who are disabled, gain more confidence in navigating its stations. GTR had received feedback that the existing bird’s-eye view maps of its stations could be improved, as they were not ...
Road transport provider CMAC has been working with Eurostar to provide taxi, bus and coach services, which enable the pan-European operator to manage disruption better and support pre- and post-shift travel for its traincrew.
RUSSIA: The first train has travelled the full 531 km length of the recently completed Pacific Railway from the Elga coking coal deposit to a port which is under construction at Cape Manorsky on the Sea of Okhotsk. The train operated on October 30-31 comprised 20 ...
