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Rail industry news / 27 April 2010 /
The SYSTRA Group finished 2009 with an increased turnover for the fourth consecutive year, up from 241.3 million euros in 2008 to 252.6 million euros in 2009, an increase of 4.7%. Net profits reached 17.5 million euros.
Staffing levels of the SYSTRA Group increased sharply to reach 2,510 personnel around the world in 2009, with 732 in SYSTRA France. To date, future orders for the Group amount to 15 months of turnover. The Middle East remains the major growth area, with the Dubai metro and numerous projects in Saudi Arabia. SYSTRA has also strengthened its position in Algeria, Morocco and Egypt.
In France, SYSTRA confirmed its leadership in the field of segregated site public transport projects – tramways and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects – by acting as manager or assistant to the owner on more than 20 projects.
SYSTRA has also carried out several projects for the French rail network operator (RFF). Business in the rest of the world focused on landmark projects such as Crossrail, the planned MRT for Greater London (Europe) and the Hanoi metro (Asia). To bolster its activities in the field of sustainable mobility and environment, a new division was created in March 2009, SYSTRA Conseil, which comprises around 100 engineers, technicians and experts.
Issue 6 2008, Past issues / 3 December 2008 /
The European new generation digital radio communication system based on GSM, called GSM-R is implemented in several countries. As per 2007, it entered full nationwide commercial service in Sweden for Banverket, in Germany for DB, in the Netherlands for Prorail, in Norway for Jernbanverket and in Italy for RFI. It also entered partial operational service in several additional European countries.
Indian Railways, China Railways, in Middle East Saudi Arabia, all North African Railways and several other countries in western and Eastern Europe are either in the planning phase or considering its introduction in their networks.
In addition, GSM-R is the bearer for ERTMS/ETCS, the European Train Control System, gradually introducing a true intelligent traffic management system all over the railway lines in Europe. This global system is now extending to several countries worldwide as a recognised operating system.
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Issue 4 2008, Past issues / 1 August 2008 /
Railways across Europe and in other parts of the world are replacing their analogue operational radio communications networks by a digital system called GSM-R. This is an enhanced version of the hugely successful public cellular radio standard, GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) which has additional features to meet the specific requirements of Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) communications which include railway communications.
Anyone designing a radio plan for GSM-R needs to avoid the pitfall of assuming that the same rules and criteria can be applied as for a standard GSM network. The specific railway environment and the demanding requirements for operations mean that a new approach to radio planning is necessary. This becomes even more important once GSM-R is used in Europe as the radio bearer for the Train Control System (TCS). (more…)
Issue 4 2006, Past issues / 28 July 2006 /
Consultancy practices have an important role in providing technical expertise for railway projects around the globe.
Historically, Europe’s big state railways were self-sufficient. All the engineering skills were on hand in-house: when a new project was sanctioned by the government, the state railway would generally be able to design and execute the project itself. The experience and expertise gained in such work would enable the state railway to sell consultancy services to developing countries embarking on new railways and railway improvement projects.
This pattern still holds true to some extent, with DE-Consult, the consultancy arm of Deutsche Bahn (German Rail), and Systra, which is jointly held by SNCF (French Railways) and RATP (Paris Transport), major forces in railway projects around the globe. But the deregulation and privatisation of the rail systems in some European countries has prompted a new requirement for consultancy services. In a fragmented network, such as that of the UK, many of the companies have either taken a decision to focus on their key tasks, or are too small to have expertise in-house, or both, and thus have a need to buy in expertise from outside consultancies. (more…)
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