Alstom to equip 449 vehicles with its ERTMS-based train control solution in Austria
Austrian Railways ÖBB has entrusted Alstom Transport to equip 449 vehicles (locomotives and cars) with its ERTMS -based train control solution ATLAS. The contract is worth around € 90 million. The solution will be first adapted for OBB by Alstom in its site located in Charleroi (Belgium). Its components will be produced in Alstom sites located in Villeurbanne (France) and Verona (Italy). The solution will then be installed by ÖBB TS (Technical Services) in its workshops in Vienna and Linz (Austria). Deployment of ATLAS solution starts in 2010, the project will be finalised in 2014.
Additionally, Alstom will implement its on-board Specific Transmission Module solution (STM). This solution will enable vehicles to run in neighbour countries with their national train control system without traffic interruption.
3 types of vehicles will be equipped : 332 Taurus locomotives (class 1016/1116), 50 multi-system locomotives (class 1216) and 67 railjet control-cars (class 8090).
“By selecting the ATLAS ERTMS-based solution, the Austrian Railways ÖBB allows us to make a big step towards standardization of the European rail traffic”, says Martin Lange, Managing Director of Alstom Transport Germany and Austria. Austria is indeed a core market for ETCS as a large part of the European transit traffic runs through this country. The vehicles should not only take up service again in Austria (on a part of the European Freight Corridor B under ETCS Level 2 supervision) , but also in the neighbouring countries of Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary (on one line using ETCS Level 1) as well as in other East-European countries where they run in cross border traffic.
Once the project is fully implemented, ÖBB will operate one of the largest vehicle fleets equipped with ETCS Level 2 .
About Alstom Transport's ERTMS system : ATLAS
This new contract strengthens Alstom Transport’s position as the leader in the operational deployment of interoperability in Europe. With over 900 trains equipped with Atlas solution and over 28 million kilometres travelled in commercial service, more than 7 trains out of 10 are running under Atlas supervision across Europe. Currently, Alstom has more than 20 ERTMS projects in service in nine European countries, including the Rome-Naples line in Italy, the first very high speed line equipped with a Level 2 ERTMS system, the Mattstetten-Rothrist line in Switzerland, used by the biggest equipped fleet and the freight line Betuwe Route in the Netherlands, part of Corridor C.
Furthermore, over 1300 vehicles will enter in service with Atlas solution in the next years.
About Alstom Transport
A promoter of sustainable mobility, Alstom Transport develops and markets the most complete range of systems, equipment and services in the railway sector. Alstom Transport manages entire transport systems, taking in rolling stock, signalling and infrastructure, and offers “turnkey” solutions. Alstom Transport recorded sales of 5.7 billion euros in the fiscal year 2008-2009 and an increase in orders of 9% compared to the previous year. Alstom Transport is present in over 60 countries and employs some 27,000 people.
¹ ÖBB : Österreichische Bundesbahnen
² ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System) est un système de gestion et de contrôle du trafic ferroviaire sur les lignes des réseaux trans-européens.
³ ETCS(European Train Control System) est une composante de l’ERTMS.
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