Thales Rail Signalling Solutions
Parent Thales Group | | |
Thales Rail Signalling Solutions is a division of
. Its operations are controlled from several locations:- its head office in Paris, France
- its railway business divisional centers in Ditzingen and Berlin, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Hengelo, the Netherlands
- its mass transit business divisional centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
History
The original
Intermediate Capacity Transit System
(ICTS). In 1985, the ICTS technology was successfully implemented on three new railway lines in North America, all of which continue to use the system today:
- Expo Lineand later used on new lines and extensions
- Scarborough RT (Toronto, Ontario), part of the Toronto subwaynetwork
- Detroit People Mover (Detroit, Michigan), opened in 1987
UTDC's rolling stock manufacturing operations were later absorbed by Bombardier Transportation, who divested the signalling technology to Alcatel-Lucent. In April 2006, Thales Group announced it would be acquiring Alcatel Rail Signalling Solutions in a deal which also raised Alcatel's ownership of Thales to 21.66 percent.
In August 2021 Thales announced that the ground transportation business was to be sold to Hitachi Rail for €1,660 million.[1][2]
Products
Various railway signalling systems:
- SelTrac (communications-based train control for mass transit)
- AlTrac
- ComTrac
- NetTrac
- FieldTrac
- RBC (Radio Block Controller)
- OBU (OnBoard Unit)
- ETCS
- LZB
Besides its signalling solutions[axle counters that can replace track circuits, various types of point machines, and railway worker protection systems.
References
- ^ "Thales enters into agreement in view of selling its Ground Transportation Systems business to Hitachi Rail". Thales Group. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
- ^ "Press | Hitachi Rail". www.hitachirail.com. Retrieved 2021-08-04.