- Positions DSB for
modernization with a more dynamic and customer-focused approach
- S3 Passenger
empowers DSB to optimize capacity and demand management and enhance passenger
communications
- Long-term
partnership with a 12-year contract
The Danish State Railways (DSB)
announced it selected S3 Passenger to replace DSB’s legacy inventory management
system for all its mainline services. S3 Passenger is developed by Siemens
Mobility subsidiary Sqills, and it is considered the industry-leading dynamic
pricing, inventory management, and reservation system. DSB signed a 12-year
contract that can be extended by another 12 years. DSB is the third public
transport operator on the Scandinavian market that uses S3 Passenger, and it is
one with a rich history dating back more than a century. DSB was founded in
1885 with the merger of two state-owned railway operators.
- Supplemental scope to design, supply, install, test, and commission power supply system for Cross Island Line
- Third order for Siemens Mobility on the Cross Island Line, following the orders for the Overhead Catenary Rigid Power Supply system and Trainguard MT CBTC signaling systems and full-height platform screen doors
Siemens Mobility has been appointed by the
Singapore Land Transport Authority to lead a consortium with Concord
Corporation Pte Ltd for the design, supply, installation, testing, and
commissioning of the power supply system for Singapore's eighth and newest Mass
Rapid Transit system, the Cross Island Line. The contract value of the
consortium has a volume of approximately 270 million Euros.
- Overall contract from Ruhrbahn GmbH for renewing
control and safety technology by 2031
- Relay interlockings in Essen and Mülheim an der
Ruhr, Germany, will be replaced by electronic interlockings
- Total investment worth around €180 million
Siemens
Mobility and Ruhrbahn GmbH will digitalize control and safety technology dating
from the 1970s in Essen and Mülheim an der Ruhr by 2031 to ensure the system is
fit for the future. The contract, worth around €180 million, was signed
recently by the partners and includes digitalizing Europe’s largest light rail
interlocking system at Essen Central Station. The modernization will make the interlocking
system more reliable and energy efficient. Sixty percent of the costs for the
renewal of the interlockings will be funded by the municipal rail renewal
program with state and federal funds; the funding is currently expected to
total around €96 million.
- Berlin as a pioneer: World’s first installation
of an obstacle detection system on an S-Bahn in daily operation
- Installation and practical testing of an
innovative obstacle detection system in the latest 484 series S-Bahn train
conducted by Siemens Mobility with
S-Bahn Berlin and the Digital Rail Germany (DSD) initiative
- Goal: Develop assistance system for accident
prevention and driverless operation at low speeds
Automated operation is a key function for expanding
rail capacity and strengthening the performance of railways. Working together
with S-Bahn Berlin, Siemens Mobility has installed and will be testing an
obstacle detection system – a key technology component for enabling fully
automated driving – for the first time during regular daily operation.
- Siemens and partners launch safe.trAIn
research project
- Practicable linking of AI processes with
requirements and approval procedures in railway environments
- AI-based methodologies for driverless
regional trains
- Safe.trAIn to support standardization
activities in AI and rail transportation
In a project that will run until the end of 2024, Siemens
and 16 partners will facilitate advances in the driverless operation of
regional trains with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). Within the “safe.trAIn”
project, which the German government is subsidizing, there is a budget of €23 million
available for this task. Solutions for meeting the requirements in this highly
regulated and standardized environment have the potential to substantially boost
the efficiency and sustainability of regional railway transportation.
- Industry’s largest and oldest rail infrastructure site develops and produces signaling and rail automation technology for the world
- Prominent guests at today’s ceremony include Volker Wissing, Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, Olaf Lies, Lower Saxony’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Transport, Housing and Digitalization, and Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens AG
The
Braunschweig site of Siemens Mobility, the world’s largest and oldest
development and production site for signaling and rail automation technologies,
is celebrating its 150th anniversary today. Guests attending the event include Volker
Wissing, the Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, Olaf Lies, the
Lower Saxony Minister for Economic Affairs, Transport, Housing and
Digitalization, and Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens AG. Founded by Braunschweig
businessman Max Jüdel and mechanical engineer Heinrich Büssing in 1873, the
factory was taken over in stages by Siemens in the following decades. Innovations
from Braunschweig have consistently shaped the development of railway
infrastructure worldwide. Today, Siemens Mobility continues to research and
develop technology at its Braunschweig facility that makes rail infrastructure
more efficient, sustainable, and reliable.
- Snälltåget
implements Sqills S3 Passenger from Sqills, a subsidiary of Siemens Mobility
- Implementation
to support with longest night train route in the EU
- Increased
capacity, improved passenger experience
Swedish open-access rail operator Snälltåget has announced
that it will be implementing S3 Passenger, the dynamic pricing, inventory management,
and reservation system offered by Sqills, a Siemens Mobility
subsidiary. Snälltåget
and Sqills have opted for a phased approach in terms of
implementation: The Swedish operator will benefit from a short time-to-market
while adding more functionalities in the months after go-live. One feature that
Snälltåget will be using from the start is the support for cross-operator
cooperation as a way for providing through tickets. This will further improve
passenger comfort when booking long-
distance trips. S3 Passenger is based on the
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model and is part of the open, digital business
platform, Siemens Xcelerator, that enables customers to accelerate their
digital transformation easier,
faster and at scale.
Today, Siemens
Mobility – in partnership with RATP and d’Île-de-France Mobilités – announced
completion of the full automation of Paris Metro Line 4, which is now operated
exclusively using automatic driverless trains. Following a period of mixed
operation during which driver-operated trains ran alongside the automatic
trains, full automation of Line 4 is now a reality. As a leader in the
design and implementation of automated metro systems, Siemens Mobility was
chosen by RATP at the end of 2015 to automate Line 4, three years after the
successful project to automate Line 1 at the end of 2012. With 700,000
passenger each day, Line 4 is the French capital’s second busiest metro line.
Opened in 1908, the route now has 29 stations spread over 14 kilometers.
- ‘Digirail’ project to modernize Finland’s train
control system
- Siemens Mobility selected to equip first phase
with European Train Control System Level 2 and Hybrid Train Detection
- Finland's first
implementation of the European Train Control System drives
rail digitalization
Siemens Mobility will upgrade the
first section of Finland's rail network under the Finnish government's
"Digirail project", which involves renewing the country's train control system. The contract was
recently awarded and includes the installation of the European Train Control
System Levels 2 [ETCS L2] and the Hybrid Train Detection [HTD] for the first
time in Finland on the 191-kilometer stretch between Lielahti and Rauma-Pori. This marks another milestone in the
implementation of Siemens
Mobility's latest interlocking and radio block center technology on the new DS3
platform, which is entirely based on commercial-off-the-shelf [COTS] hardware. The
new train control system aims to increase the network's capacity, improve
punctuality, minimize disruptions, and enhance the safety of operation. It will
pave the way for a more sustainable, efficient, and safe railway network and is
expected to be in commercial service by 2027.
City of Hamburg, Deutsche Bahn, and Siemens
Mobility sign cooperation agreement for Digitale S-Bahn Hamburg 2.0New
intelligent operations control system to be tested until UITP Congress 2025Partners jointly invest 35 million euros
(Hamburg, July 18,
2023) With the Digitale S-Bahn Hamburg, train travel will become even more
environmentally friendly in the future. Deutsche Bahn (DB), the city of
Hamburg, and Siemens Mobility are introducing a new intelligent operations
control system for the Digitale S-Bahn in Hamburg, aiming to reduce the trains'
power consumption by up to 30 percent. The system will be tested until the UITP
World Congress 2025. The project, costing 35 million euros, is jointly funded
by DB, the city of Hamburg, and Siemens Mobility. A cooperation agreement for
the Digitale S-Bahn Hamburg 2.0 was signed by representatives of the partners
today.