Germany, Switzerland: Nine-section Urbanliner Flexity trams from Alstom in Berlin and five-section TINA family vehicles from Stadler in Darmstadt and Basel are encountering commissioning difficulties.
Russia: PC Transport Systems (PC TS) has released a detailed video showing the production stages of the three-section low-floor 71-931M Vityaz-M trams for Saratov.
Czech Republic: The five-section, bidirectional ForCity Classic 49T with a fully low-floor design was presented at the manufacturer’s site in Plzeň.
France: Fleet of five four-car driverless rubber-tyred metro trainsets Boa began operating on the French city's Line 1 metro on 14 February.
Canada: A fleet of 76 five-section trams began carrying passengers on Line 5 on 8 February.
Switzerland: A fleet of ten Stadler Tramlink tram-trains has been operating in GoA2 mode since January on the 13 km Waldenburgerbahn narrow-gauge line.
Russia: On 6 February, the low-floor 71-233A was put into service on a route in the city of Yekaterinburg.
Recent deals and tenders in the urban rail transport market.
Chile: A five-car AS-22 train was unveiled at the company's production site in Taubaté, Brazil.
