First major contract in France for init

German intelligent transportation systems supplier init has been awarded its first major order in France with the award of a contract by French local authority Le Grand Avignon. The contract, worth more than more than US$6.7million, is for the supply and installation of a new control system (ITCS) for local public transport company TCRA (Transport en Commun de la Région d‘Avignon), a subsidiary of the TRANSDEV Group.
October 14, 2013 Read time: 1 min
German intelligent transportation systems supplier 511 INIT has been awarded its first major order in France with the award of a contract by French local authority Le Grand Avignon.

The contract, worth more than more than US$6.7million, is for the supply and installation of a new control system (ITCS) for local public transport company TCRA (Transport en Commun de la Région d‘Avignon), a subsidiary of the TRANSDEV Group.

init will replace the existing control system and equip over 250 vehicles with the necessary hardware and software. The first phase, due to be put into operation by the end of 2014, will see 150 public buses and 80 school buses integrated into the new intermodal transport control system (ITCS).   In the second phase of the project, which is due to be completed by 2016, a further 24 trams on the newly constructed tram lines are to be linked up to the system.

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