The Swedish Transport Administration is scrapping plans for a new traffic management system. The authority had already ploughed over half a billion Swedish kronor into the project, reports Dagens Nyheter.
The new system was intended to provide more punctual trains, better oversight of disruptions and signal failures. But now there will be no new system, which was procured by the transport company Alstom.
”We've done this because we've chosen a new strategic direction for our railway traffic management. We want greater autonomy over our systems,” says Mats Petersson, department head at Trafikverket [the Swedish Transport Administration], to the newspaper.
From a safety perspective, Trafikverket has decided to revisit the issue of having a national train traffic control system.
”The remaining development work will proceed faster and at a lower cost than if we had continued on the current path,” says Mats Petersson.
Source: TT-DI.SE
