Skip to main content

Kapsch highlights new projects at Middle East Rail exhibition

Kapsch CarrierCom will take advantage of its presence at Middle East Rail, the region's largest rail exhibition and conference from 4 to 5 February in Dubai to highlight its new all in-one cab radio for locomotives, designed for simplified deployment and offering a feature set which supports new, value-added applications and an option to activate a fully Arabic user interface. The company will also provide detailed information about new projects in the region, where it is to provide GSM-R technology for
January 29, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
81 Kapsch CarrierCom will take advantage of its presence at Middle East Rail, the region's largest rail exhibition and conference from 4 to 5 February in Dubai to highlight its new all in-one cab radio for locomotives, designed for simplified deployment and offering a feature set which supports new, value-added applications and an option to activate a fully Arabic user interface.

The company will also provide detailed information about new projects in the region, where it is to provide GSM-R technology for the Mecca-Medina high speed railway and for two lines in Turkey

The company recently started the implementation of a new contract for the supply and deployment of its GSM-R technology on the 450 km high speed rail line connecting the two holy cities Mecca and Medina in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  In Turkey Kapsch has been awarded the to deliver GSM-R access technology and communication units for locomotives for the Bandirma Menemen line (310 km) and a secured wireless communication solution based on GSM-R for the 100 km Haydarpasa-Gebze-Kosekoy high speed line.

Kapsch’s head of sales Middle East, Africa and Turkey, Selim Bouri, will be making a keynote speech at the conference.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Kapsch finds €4m mobility solution for Vitoria-Gasteiz
    January 22, 2024
    Four-year contract aims to ensure reliable and safe mobility in northern Spanish city
  • Joining old and new in Canada’s Highway 407
    June 17, 2016
    David Arminas visits Canada’s Highway 407 ETR to see how the concession is working and hear about new arrangements for the roadway’s extension. The Toronto region is North America’s eighth largest metropolitan area and its roads become notoriously congested. In 1997 Highway 407, a 68km concrete toll motorway which skirts the northern edge of Toronto, was opened and initially operated by the province and CHIC - a consortium of four leading Ontario-based companies. Finance came from the Ontario Financing Auth
  • European tunnel safety steps up a gear
    September 19, 2017
    David Crawford reviews the latest safety systems installed in European tunnels. Blueprints for the safer road tunnels of the future are emerging fast as European operators invest in technologies to enhance travellers’ prospects of surviving an accident. Central to modern emergency planning is the principle that, following an incident, drivers should be enabled to rescue themselves and their passengers with the aid of prompt and correct identification and communication of the hazard. Roles for cooperativ
  • Priority boosts ridership and cuts congestion
    May 4, 2016
    Transit priority is proving a win-win in Europe and Australia. David Crawford reports. Technology that integrates with the Australian-originated Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) is driving bus signal priority and performance analysis initiatives on both sides of the world; in its homeland, with a major deployment in 2015, and in the capital of the Republic of Ireland.