Škoda Group, a leading European manufacturer of components and vehicles for public transport, will participate in the delivery of trams to Melbourne, Australia, a city with one of the largest tram networks in the world. It has joined forces with French manufacturer Alstom for this contract. The supplier will provide Melbourne with trams for which…
Thanks to its expertise, ČD – Telematika has achieved several significant milestones in the field of railway transport. The most significant was that it was the first entity to achieve type approval of retrofitted locomotives with ETCS (series 162WTB, 362 WTB, 362, 163 and 363) by the European Union Railway Agency in December 2022. Other…
A consortium of Czech companies Kontron Transportation s.r.o., AŽD Praha s.r.o. and Elektrizace železnic Praha a.s. signed a significant contract for the coverage of the main corridor with the digital radio standard GSM-R in the presence of the Minister of Transport Andrej Doležal and the Director General of ŽSR Miloslav Havrila. The main content of…
Adhesive bonding joints are an integral part of rail vehicle design. Part of our development activities in AV R&D are deals with both partial tests of adhesive bonding joints in the AV R&D Testing Center and the development of special test equipment for testing adhesive bonding joints in accordance with DIN 6701. Laboratory tests of…
Czech technology and real estate group TTC is expanding its business in the field of modern technologies by establishing a new company TTC MOBILE. It will focus on the use of 5G technologies in the energy, transport and industrial sectors and will work very closely with its sister company TTC MARCONI. Fifth-generation mobile networks provide…
Škoda Group has signed contracts with Egyptian National Railways (ENR) to modernise and maintain at least 280 electro-diesel locomotives. The project marking Škoda Group expansion into Africa, consists of two contracts. The first is for the overhaul of locomotives over a period of nine years, followed by a full-service maintenance up to 15 years. Most…
The AŽD company signed a contract with the Hungarian construction company V4SIL (part of the V-Híd holding) for the supply of modern signalling technologies and a unified European Train Control System ETCS L2 level for the Soroksár – Kelebia project. This is the second, this time a major contract for the Hungarian railway network that…
Škoda Group, a leading European manufacturer of components and vehicles for public transport, starting a strategic technological cooperation with Tesmec Group, a renowned company specializing in infrastructure technologies. This collaboration, facilitated by Tesmec Rail, Tesmec’s subsidiary dedicated to railway solutions, aims to revolutionize the railway working and diagnostic vehicles sector, creating cutting-edge, high-performance, and environmentally…
DAKO-CZ, a manufacturer of braking systems and components for rail vehicles from Třemošnice, East Bohemia, has defended the Czech Business Superbrands award for 2023. The judges were convinced by the economic results, growth and new projects of the company with more than two hundred years of tradition. The only Czech manufacturer of brakes for rolling…
Electric multiple units newly designated as KTX-Eum were previously known as EMU-260. The word ‘Eum’ in Korean means ‘uniting through connection’, thus symbolising the fact that the dense high-speed rail network contributes significantly to integrate the entire South Korean society. The multiple units are manufactured by Hyundai Rotem in Changwon. The trainset with the total…