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Series
483/484 now running on S47
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Ten
pre-series trains begin service in January
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More
comfort and space for passengers
The New Year is starting off with a premiere! Shortly after midnight on
January 1, the first train of the new series 483/484 S-Bahn will start
passenger service in Berlin.
- The new series 483/484 trains are waiting to begin service – Premiere run on New Year’s Eve on line S47
The countdown for a new S-Bahn era has begun! Two weeks before their inaugural run on January 1, the new series 483/484 trains are ready and waiting to be deployed.
- On-time handover of 84
th and final train for the Rhine-Ruhr Express
(RRX)
- The RRX train offers highly innovative, digitally networked, and
high-performance mobility service for people in the Rhine-Ruhr region
- Digital maintenance ensures nearly 100-percent availability
The 84
th
train for the Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX) infrastructure and mobility project was handed
over right on schedule. The trains were originally ordered from Siemens
Mobility in 2015. The RRX order, consisting of trains and a service contract,
has a total volume of €1.7 billion and marks the largest order received by
Siemens Mobility to date in the sector of regional rail passenger transport in
Germany.
- First CBTC project in India with GoA 4, the highest grade of automation
- Will allow for trains to be automatically controlled and operated
- Automated signaling and train operations will provide greater availability and enhance operations and passenger experience
Siemens Mobility and Siemens Limited India is partnering with Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) to implement a comprehensive set of automated train solutions for phase 2 of the Bengaluru metro expansion project. This will be the first CBTC project in India with GoA 4, the highest grade of automation that allows for trains to be automatically controlled and operated. Siemens Mobility will install its communications-based train control (CBTC) system across 18.8 km of the Yellow Line, which will feature electronic interlockings, an automatic train protection and supervision system, as well as a telecommunication system. The automated signaling and train operations will allow BMRCL to run trains 90 seconds apart, providing greater availability and an enhanced passenger experience.
- The Mireo train won the Pioneer category of the German Sustainability Award for Design.
The Mireo is the new, eco-friendly and economical regional and commuter train from Siemens Mobility, which offers a comfortable and inspiring riding experience. The first fleet has been in operation since June 2020 in the Rhine Valley in Baden-Württemberg and over 180 trains have already been ordered in the meantime.
- Award honors winners in five categories
- Collaboration with focus on “glocal” value creation, sustainability, and supply chain resilience
- Siemens Mobility’s supplier network helps generate more than 50 percent of revenue
Siemens Mobility announced today the winners of the company’s Supplier Award for 2020. The award honors suppliers who made significant contributions to Siemens Mobility’s success in fiscal 2020 with their outstanding performance. The award was presented in five categories. Trispel GmbH in Germany took top honors in the category “Technology & Innovation.” The category “Logistics Performance” was won by the Spanish firm Industrial de Transformados. India’s Apar Industries was picked best supplier in the category “Competitiveness.” The winner in the category “Quality” was Germany’s ml&s GmbH & Co. KG, and the special “Moving beyond” award went to Lucchini RS in Italy. Over 400 suppliers were invited to the virtual award ceremony. The awards were presented virtually by Karl Blaim, Chief Financial Officer and member of the Siemens Mobility Managing Board, together with Rainer Straub, the company’s Chief Procurement Officer.
- DS3: ÖBB and Siemens Mobility put the first digital interlocking architecture into operation in Achau, Austria
- Digitalisation generates major economic benefits for infrastructure operators
- First approval of a digital SIL4 interlocking based on COTS hardware
Together with Siemens Mobility, ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG has put a completely new digitalisation solution in the field of safety and security technology into operation at the train station in Achau, Austria: The “Distributed Smart Safe System” (DS3) is an innovative digitalisation solution and the basis for cloud-enabled interlocking (“Interlocking in the Cloud”).
- Research projects with volume of €1.7 million and term of 30 months
- Studies of highest automation levels in regional and mainline transport
- Important impetus for digitizing railways
Siemens Mobility and prominent partners have won two innovative research projects from the German Center for Rail Traffic Research (DZSF) to study the safety of automated rail operations. The aim is to define the criteria needed for approving fully automated regional and mainline rail service. The two projects will be funded with €1.7 million and are scheduled to run for 30 months.
- Siemens Mobility supplying the complete system technology for C-ITS in Austria
- C-ITS allows for exchange of information between vehicles and the road via ITS-G5 broadcast technology
- ASFiNAG is the first infrastructure provider in Europe to install C-ITS
Siemens Mobility is pleased to announce that it is
partnering with ASFiNAG, the operating authority for the Austrian highway network,
to provide the technology for an intelligent traffic
management system that facilitates the exchange of safety information between
vehicles and the road. The “Cooperative Intelligent Transport System”
(C-ITS) is a next generation traffic management system that uses
broadcast technology to analyze roadway conditions and disseminates information
to motorists relating to traffic jams, accidents, and lane
closures. ASFiNAG is the first infrastructure
provider in Europe to reach the milestone of installing a network connecting
the vehicle and road. The process of implementing the system across 2,200
kilometers of highway and expressway in Austria has already started.