photo: Thales Group/GREAT DEAL: Thales to combine their expertise in rail system with voestalpine Railway Systems by signing an agreement of cooperation
In the course of InnoTrans 2022, the world's largest trade fair focused on the rail transport industry in Berlin, voestalpine Railway Systems, the world-market leader in railway systems, and Thales, a global player in the field of ground transportation systems, sign an agreement of cooperation for the joint development of the new generation of digital points.
Future mobility relies on attractive rail transport. This results in enormous demands with regard to the operational availability of the existing railway infrastructure in order to enable the desired, significant increases in capacity. Particularly this applies to the switches as a neuralgic element of the rail infrastructure.
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With the Thales solution for a decentralised control unit, the switch becomes a fully digitalised, intelligent outdoor element that, among other things, provides diagnostic data directly at the point. The EULYNX-compliant interface corresponds to the standardised solution according to European standards and thus enables flexible, supplier-independent integration into modern, digital interlocking systems in the future.
Railway infrastructure operators benefit from this integrated approach as it simplifies significantly the installation and integration of the turnout systems into the signalling technology. Real-time diagnostic information ensures that unplanned maintenance activities are minimised, thereby optimising the operational availability of the rail infrastructure.
"Thales massively invests in digitalisation in all business areas. Railways rely on digitalisation in order to sufficiently cope with the immense future challenges and demands. We are therefore very proud to further contribute to accelerating the digitalisation process of railways through our partnership with voestalpine," says Hannes Boyer, CEO & Country Director, Thales in Austria.
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"Digitalization, and with it the targeted application of the new digital technologies, has been and remains a cornerstone of continued value growth and technological leadership of voestalpine Railway Systems. We are glad to have Thales as a cooperation partner to pursue together the great goal of digital Performance on Track," comments Holger Pütz, CEO, voestalpine Signaling Sainerholz GmbH.
Source: Thales Group Press Releases