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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8983

5 July 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport
Commission presents its strategy for deploying harmonised European system for implementation of ERTMS/ETCS railway signalling

Brussels, 04/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - Today the Commission adopted a communication in which it presented its strategy for deploying a European railway signalling system (European Rail Traffic Management System)/ ETCS (European Train Control System). Deployment will be done intensively over a ten year period from 2007 and is expected to require global investment of EUR 5bn over the ten years to equip 20 000 kilometres of lines and 10 000 existing locomotives, i.e. 20% of the trans-European...

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