Daily Archives: 15. June 2020

The expert programme for IRFC 2020 is confirmed for autumn’s term

News from the CZEBy Tomáš Johánek 15. June 2020

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak across Europe, the date of the International Railway Forum & Conference (IRFC) 2020 was postponed to the 30th November - 2nd December 2020. The IRFC programme is the conference’s key element, following the motto “Let’s build a new generation railway together”. The IRFC programme remains unchanged with as…

Commissioning of the “ETCS over GPRS” system in France

UNCATEGORIZEDBy Tomáš Johánek 15. June 2020

Since 2018, SNCF has been building a GPRS system from Kontron Transportation in its GSM-R network, which will enable a significant improvement of capacity for the ETCS system. This feature is called ETCS over GPRS and has recently successfully passed the European standardization procedure. The main advantage of this system is an increase the number…