Siemens Mobility lands ETCS Level 2 contract for Chilean rail digitalisation

Siemens Mobility has secured a declaration from Chile’s nationalist railway operator, EFE Trenes de Chile, to present its archetypal European Train Control System Level 2 (ETCS L2) task successful the country.

The task involves deployment of precocious signalling systems on 87km of railway, spanning the Tren Alameda-Melipilla and Tren Santiago-Batuco routes, which are presently nether development.

Siemens Mobility volition beryllium liable for engineering, supplying, installing, and commissioning these systems implicit 5 years, followed by a ten-year attraction agreement.

The ETCS Level 2 signalling systems volition tally connected the DS3 platform, a strategy developed for Safety Integrity Level 4 (SIL4) applications.

Through this initiative, Siemens Mobility volition present its Signaling X level to Latin America for the archetypal time, integrating interlockings, signalling, and power systems wrong a centralised virtual information centre.

Siemens, the genitor institution of Siemens Mobility, noted that Signaling X demonstrates obstruction bundle tin run globally connected commercialized off-the-shelf hardware, which aims to simplify infrastructure and trim operational complexity.

The caller integer signalling infrastructure for the 2 railway lines besides includes interlockings, wayside equipment, postulation power centres, and onboard systems for 32 trains.

Communications volition usage 4G-LTE technology, with an enactment to upgrade to 5G successful aboriginal deployments.

Siemens said that this attack reduces the fig of required interlocking systems and simplifies maintenance.

Siemens Mobility obstruction infrastructure CEO Marc Ludwig said: “We are honoured to pb this pivotal task successful Latin America, bringing our cutting-edge Signaling X exertion to the portion for the archetypal clip and mounting caller standards for railway operations and efficiency.

“Siemens Mobility’s expertise and precocious solutions pave the mode for aboriginal digitalisation efforts, enabling sustainable and high-performing railway operations.”

Siemens Mobility is readying to found a determination bundle attraction Centre of Competence to enactment aboriginal projects crossed the region.

This declaration follows Siemens Mobility’s caller occurrence successful Brazil, wherever it signed the largest ETCS Level 2 declaration successful Latin America.

Siemens Mobility has antecedently delivered automated metro and digitalisation projects successful different Latin American countries, including Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina.

Recently, Siemens Mobility opened a £6m ($6.9m) multi-functional centre successful Northampton, designed to enactment modifications and upgrades for rider trains crossed the UK.