Russia: Manufacturers are approved to receive 8 loans from the state Industrial Development Fund to develop the previously imported components and to increase production.
Russia: The publication includes materials about new rolling stock and components by TMH, the experience of locomotive delivery for Nornickel, the results of the TMH: New Vision acceleration program and much more.
Russia: The R&D Institute of Russian Railways is integrating diagnostic telematics devices in 9 ED4M trains. Also, the project of the VNIIZhT computer vision system for track machines reached the final of the New Link competition.
Austria: The project has been implemented by the freight operator since 2019 together with the A1 mobile operator and is aimed at equipping up to 12,000 freight cars with SmartCargo telematics devices.
Russia: The first 71-923M “Bogatyr-M” trams with the Cognitive Tram Pilot active automated driver assistance system have entered the route. The city has already received 9 such vehiclse since May this year.
Russia: The launch of production is scheduled for 2023. The declared amount of investments is 1.3 bln RUR ($20.5 mln USD) and it is planned to receive the state support from the Industrial Development Fund.
Germany: The company claims that by 2030 it expects to become a leading supplier of digital automatic couplers and other technical solutions for the freight trains automation. It estimates the volume of this market at €10 bln.
Australia: The Main Line computer vision system will be tested on the heavy-haul long distance locomotives of the Rio Tinto mining company in the Pilbara region over the next three months.
Aluminum is already strongly associated with rail freight transportation rolling stock in many countries. Russia joined the trend a few years ago.
