Do you have a Personal Connection?
Let’s connect with a new rail magazine called ‘Urban transport Agenda’. In its first edition, Olivier André, Vice President for Transport at Alcatel-Lucent explains the new role of the company to transform the passenger experience with advanced multimedia applications to be informed, entertained, and stay always connected. Additionally, the telecom expert is engaged to “work [...]
A New Step to Full Safety: Multimedia Communications with Interactive Boards – ‘Best of Innotrans’
Improving safety in a complex environment with ever changing numbers of passengers – with increased expectations – and a shifting environment, is still a relevant and hot topic at Innotrans 2012. Therefore, rail operators are stopping by the Alcatel-Lucent booth (133 – hall 4.1) to discover a new generation communication dispatching platform called ICCC (Integrated [...]
Broadband Everywhere and Why Not Also in the Rail Environment?
In this ever competitive world, guaranteeing security and safety in trains and stations, improving efficiency of operations and delivering added value services to passengers, remain key objectives of the industry and the good news is that broadband applications could address all of them. The 4G (4th Generation) mobile communication technology named also as Long-Term Evolution [...]
Technological milestone as 2G and 3G mobile communication services go live in Eurotunnel
On July 26, David Meyer reported in ZDNet on the major launch of 2G and 3G services in the Channel Tunnel (Mobile services going live in the Channel Tunnel ahead of Olympics). Travelers on their way to England via high speed trains such as the Eurostar, will now be able to use their cell phones [...]
The best telecommunications for the longest railway tunnel in the world!
Demand for freight traffic in Switzerland will increase by up to 78% by 2030 according to studies conducted by the Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development and transit traffic will grow even faster. By upgrading its railway infrastructure, Switzerland can meet these increasing needs while ensuring the quality of environment and the security of goods [...]
Communicating underground – light at the end of the tunnel
By TrackTalk editors As the global population becomes increasingly urbanized, tunnels are becoming part of daily life for more and more people. As well as overcoming natural barriers, tunnels are the arteries of the modern metropolis, and megacities depend on their underground infrastructure to function efficiently. The telecommunications network of the tunnel has to reflect [...]
Guaranteeing success in the world’s longest tunnels
The huge strides made in tunneling techniques in recent decades have allowed engineers to overcome formidable natural barriers, and these mega-structures continue to push further and deeper, with a string of technically-impressive projects underway or planned around the world. “Today’s rail passengers and rail operators increasingly expect to have uninterrupted access to mobile and high [...]
With: R. Sigrist, Alcatel-Lucent’s global centre for excellence rail/tunnel - 26 Apr 2012
Life in today’s modern urban environment is very much an above and underground experience. As urban populations swelled during the 20th century transport planners found that they could no longer rely solely on a city’s increasingly gridlocked road network. In many cities the green light was consequently given to dig more tunnels that would provide [...]
With: R. Leucker, CEO of Stuva - 26 Apr 2012
AlpTransit Gotthard AG: The pival role of communications in tunnels
The Gotthard base tunnel will be the longest railway tunnel in the world at 57km when commercial operations begin at the end of 2016. Tunneling work on the twin tubes was completed in 2011, and now railway infrastructure installation is in full swing. This includes laying the track, mounting the catenary lines and installing the [...]
With: J. Elmiger, Chief Engineering Officer Railway Infrastructure, AlpTransit Gotthard AG - 26 Apr 2012
A holistic approach to railway security
By TrackTalk editors Passengers need to feel safe. Waiting for a train at a dark and empty station with inadequate service information and an absence of visible staff can be an unnerving experience. For many this is often too much to bear, leading them to choose other modes of transport. Research shows that passengers feel [...]