SKF Insight is a wireless system that gathers bearing data and transmits it to a remote diagnostics centre, for fast analysis of mechanical problems SKF Insight gives key information on the state of critical wheel-set components. It relies on retrofitting a small advanced, wireless sensor to the wheelset axlebox assembly – which takes just a…
Currently, ReDat3 Recording Units are being used by SŽ and many other Czech and world dispatching centers. Recording units are responsible for recording of voice, screen and other relevant data. Thanks to our recording system, the user is able to monitor, analyze or inspect the situation at any time both live and in recent history.…
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…
AV R&D successfully continues in the defined strategy of complex development of rolling stock in the 2020. AV R&D has participated at significant number of transportation projects from visualization through design up to component tests. Visualizations are realized in close synergy between AV and Lukas Tanecek design office with impact to the functional design and…
At the beginning of 2020, AMiT delivered a passenger information system and TCN for Minsk metro cars in Belarus. These new metro trains were manufactured by Stadler AG. The delivery of the Passenger Information System included TFT displays, LED panels, RGB LED panels, HMI panel computers, as well as intercoms, IP audio amplifiers, speakers and…
Landesanstalt Schienenfahrzeuge Baden-Württemberg (SFBW) has ordered 20 Mireo Plus B trains from Siemens Mobility. The two-car electric trainsets with 120 seats can operate on rail routes with or without overhead power lines thanks to their battery hybrid drive, and are scheduled to operate in Network 8 of the Ortenau regional system. The trains will be…
The cooperation between VÚKV a. s. and Kübler Heavy Rail GmbH started already during the production and tests of the 20-axle special wagon in 2016. This wagon continued two prototype wagons built by Krupp for then Czechoslovak State Railways in 1987. The wagon was then completed at LEGIOS Loco. VÚKV assisted as assigned body the…
A significant change in the field of interoperability is the amendment of the current document of the Association of Notified Bodies RFU-STR-022 addressing the use of test results from testing laboratories other than notified bodies which will be effective as of 19 June 2020. The use of test results in the EC verification process is…
Škoda Transtech, member of the Škoda Transportation Group, handed over the first modern, bidirectional 100% low-floor ForCity Smart Artic tram to Tampere today. Nineteen modern vehicles worth more than 100 million EUR will gradually be delivered to the third largest city in Finland. “Tampere will receive a modern, technically proven solution suitable for harsh Northern…
Škoda Transportation was announced the winner of a contract for the supply of up to 45 six-car subway trains for the Polish capital Warsaw. The first train will be delivered to the customer within two years of the signing of the purchase contract. The total value of the contract is almost 8 billion crowns. “I…