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The first bogie for the Siemens Desiro City Thameslink train has been completed at Siemens’ global bogie manufacturing centre in Graz, Austria. Subject to contract close with the Department for Transport, the SF7000 bogie will be used on the Thameslink trains route from 2015.

Following the introduction of intelligent parking to the European traffic market at Intertraffic 2016 in April and at the ITS European Congress in Glasgow, Siemens is exhibiting its innovative range of enforcement and parking products at Parkex 2016 (15/16 June, stand F52), Europe’s largest dedicated parking exhibition and conference at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

Leading traffic management company Siemens will be demonstrating the latest traffic management modules of its Stratos system at the ITS European Congress in Glasgow this week (06-09 June 2016) on stand B52 at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Leading traffic management company Siemens will demonstrate its new Intelligent Parking system at the ITS European Congress in Glasgow this week (06-09 June 2016) on stand B52 at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.

A 12 month research project deploying Siemens technology to gather information on vehicle emissions in Birmingham got underway in April 2016 as part of the Government’s ongoing efforts to meet EU air quality targets.

Leading traffic management company Siemens looks forward to welcoming ITS professionals from across Europe this week at the ITS European Congress in Glasgow from 6-9 June at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Siemens, working closely with infrastructure provider Network Rail and train operating company Govia Thameslink Railway, has completed the latest upgrades to its Hornsey traincare facility, constructing a fully integrated depot signalling system and an innovative depot personnel protection system (DPPS) to create optimum levels of safety for those working on site.

Over 300 service operatives and engineers responsible for installing and repairing traffic equipment across the country have been equipped by Siemens with new bespoke tablet devices.

Siemens has awarded a four-year Crane Framework Agreement to UK-based heavy-lift specialist ALE for the supply and deployment of cranes, specialised transport equipment and personnel. Based in Staffordshire, in the West Midlands, ALE is one of the world’s biggest heavy transportation and lifting contractors.

Leading intelligent traffic systems company Siemens has begun working on its latest Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) project, in a collaborative partnership to create one of the most advanced environments for CAV technologies in the UK.

Steve Reid, solutions development engineer for Siemens Building Technologies, has been recognised as Engineer of the Year at the Building Controls Industry Awards 2016. He received his trophy at the gala dinner on the 12th May at the Hilton Metropole.

24 May 2016: Thameslink is this morning (Tuesday) set to showcase the future of commuting when it unveils the spacious new Siemens Class 700 Thameslink train at Blackfriars station.Fifty per cent longer than almost every train in the Thameslink fleet, the train on show to media and stakeholders can carry up to 1,750 people seated and standing – the equivalent of 21 double-decker buses – and will be running on many routes to London from Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.