Contact Us        FAQ        Glossary         What is ERTMS ERTMS Factsheets News Projects Deployment Statistics Members Area   News   Austrian railways massively equip their trains with ERTMS 13/01/2010 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. 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).  Austria is 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 . Source: http://www.alstom.com/home/news/news/business_news/63121.EN.php?languageId=EN&dir=/home/news/news/business_news/