Banedanmark, the Danish railway infrastructure owner, has awarded Alstom a contract worth around €25 million to design and test Atlas, its ERTMS/ETCS[1] 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, for a contract value up to € 140 million. This railway network consists of more than 1.962 km track line and 300 stations. Alstom’s on-board solution will enable Banedanmark and Operators to increase its operational performance, as well as it will improve punctuality for travellers in Denmark.

Development and deployment of the solution for the 789 trains will last about 8 years, of which approximately 2 years for the design phase. 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...