Consortium

Alstom

Function: Partner

Person responsible: Wei Zhao

Description

Bombardier Transportation, a global leader in rail technology, offers a broad portfolio in the rail industry and delivers innovative products and services that set new standards in sustainable mobility.

Bombardier Transportation is head quartered in Berlin, Germany, and has a very diverse customer base with products or services in more than 60 countries. It has an installed base of over 100,000 vehicles worldwide.

Bombardier’s portfolio of rail control solutions covers the whole range of BOMBARDIER CITYFLO mass transit solutions, from manual to fully automatic, as well as communications-based systems. It also provides INTERFLO mainline solutions, from conventional to ERTMS Level 3 systems and beyond. Bombardier also provides a complete palette of wayside and on-board signaling products.

Bombardier Transportation Sweden AB houses the Bombardier Transportation Rail Control Solutions (RCS) activities, the signalling arm of Bombardier Transportation and has over 100 years of experience in the railway business. A dedicated team of highly skilled employees ensures the development and support of our signalling systems worldwide which makes use of the advanced wireless telecommunication system for train to wayside and wayside to wayside communication.

Role within 5G-VICTORI​

Bombardier Transportation will provide knowledge and expertise in the rail signaling area to contribute to the system requirement and use case definition as well as the traffic characteristic definition of the signaling application used in tests on 5G infrastructure with focus on critical communication networks and massive IoT.

Experience

Bombardier Transportation RCS has been developing and deploying rail signalling solutions throughout the world for both mass transit and main line transportation. Aside from its experiences working with functioning systems, BT RCS is also active participating in EU financed research projects for next generation rail signalling solution including advance radio technology, cyber security, etc.

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