Alstom has been awarded a contract by Banedanmark to design and test Atlas, its ERTMS/ETCS on-board Level 2 solution.
This solution meets the latest ERTMS standard and will be potentially deployed on 789 trains, mainly non Alstom-made ones, operated by 41 operators on the Fjerbane Danish network.
The contract is worth around €25 million and the design phase will last approximately 2 years.
Development and deployment of the solution for the 789 trains would last about 6 additional years.
During the design phase, Alstom and Banedanmark teams will jointly work in Copenhagen (Denmark) in cooperation with Alstom site of Charleroi (Belgium) which has already delivered similar equipment in Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands.
A centre of competencies in maintenance and data management service located in Copenhagen would contribute to fully industrialize the deployment process of the new on-board signalling systems.
The Fjerbane Danish network consists of approximately 2.000 km track line and 300 stations. Alstom’s on-board solution would enable Banedanmark and Operators to increase its operational performance, as well as it will improve punctuality for travellers in Denmark.
This on-board ERTMS contract is part of a €2.4 billion programme decided by the Danish Parliament in January 2009 to renew all Danish railways signalling before 2021.
