In Pittsburgh, Hitachi Rail in North America has been delivering rail solutions for over 100 years originally founded (Union Switch & Signal) in 1881. Through the end of the century and into the 1900s ...

San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has run on data stored by floppy disks. The Municipal Transportation Agency ...

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Metrorail has implemented improvements to its automatic train control and signals program, but “is not carrying out some key safety commitments,” ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LILEE Systems, a trusted technology partner in advanced train control systems, announced an expansion of its long-standing collaboration with Parsons ...

Track circuits are legacy (“old” or “traditional”) technology—or are they? That’s a topic to be explored at Next-Gen Rail Systems, the communications, signaling and advanced technology conference ...

Hitachi Rail has secured a contract with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) to overhaul the signalling system of the Municipal Railway (Muni) public transit. This upgrade is ...

Conventional signals have been replaced by an in-cab train computer system utilising the European Train Control System. Credit: Network Rail. The ‘Northern City Line’ commuter line in London, which ...

Hitachi Rail’s signalling solution is expected to improve the service capacity and performance of the Muni public transit. Credit: Hitachi Rail Limited. Hitachi Rail has secured a contract with the ...