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The Barcelona Metropolitan Railway’s new Comprehensive Simulator for Driving, Breakdown Repair and Operation – SICRAO – was installed between October and December 2020 and is currently in use at TMB’s (Barcelona Metropolitan Transport) training centre at Hospital Clínic station. This represents a new and important step forward, following years of collaboration between TMB and CITEF […]
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The CEFF (Centro Europeo de Formación Ferroviaria) increases its already extensive practical simulation training capacity by incorporating new Simulators for Training Train Drivers in the ERTMS/ETCS system, installed in its headquarters back in June and developed by CITEF. This project positions CEFF as the first private training Centre in Spain to have an ERTMS/ETCS system […]
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The Community of Madrid and Madrid Metro have opened an interactive virtual reality simulation zone. The simulator is located at the historic train exhibition at Chamartín station, which has been open for the last year to celebrate the centenary of the Madrid Metro system. Thanks to cutting edge 3D and virtual reality technology, this new […]
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The Rail Driver Training Simulator developed by CITEF, in line with the Spanish Railway Operation Regulation (RCF), was installed at the ALSA Railway Training Centre in Madrid at the beginning of October. The training system features the Driver Position, which recreates the cockpit of the Stadler Euro 4000 locomotive, and the Instructor Position, from where […]
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On Wednesday, 16 October, the Madrid Metro centenary exhibition “The Footprints of the Metro” was opened to the public. In 2018, CITEF (Railway Technology Research Centre) was awarded a Madrid Metro project to conduct a HISTORIOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS AND VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION WITH HIGH-IMPACT DIGITAL RECREATION TECHNIQUES. One of the fruits of this project is now being […]
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CITEF’s best assets are its human resources, and a fine example of this is the Doctoral Thesis by Ms. Taomei Zhu “Traffic Conflict Detection and Resolution (CDR) in ERTMS System”, which earned her a Ph.D in Industrial Engineering and which was produced at CITEF under the guidance of José Manuel Mera Sánchez de Pedro. The […]
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CITEF has developed several highly detailed virtual 3D models of Metro Madrid’s classic trains. Each of the models generated is made up of two types of cabs, engine and carriage, and have been modelled externally as well as internally incorporating a large amount of elements that reproduce the trains as they were when they began […]
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Since June, the Santiago Underground (Metro de Santiago) has a new simulator that was developed by CITEF and is located at San Eugenio Depot to train staff to operate the new ALSTOM NS-16 rolling stock. This new simulator reproduces the infrastructures of lines 2 and 5 and begun to work months before the start of […]
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The Crossrail Programme which will deliver the new Elizabeth line, is one of Europe’s biggest infrastructure projects at the present time and will deliver 26 miles of new rail tunnel under London along with ten new stations in Central and Southeast London. The line is due to open in phases from the end of 2018, […]
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The Thameslink rail network connects London’s northern and southern suburban systems via a central section at the heart of the city, and is one of Europe’s busiest rail routes. The Thameslink Programme was created to increase the capacity of this network, mainly boosting the capacity of the bottleneck composed of the central Thameslink section and […]
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