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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dWe've done this because we've chosen a new strategic direction for our railway traffic management. We want greater autonomy over our systems,\u201d says Mats Petersson, department head at Trafikverket [the Swedish Transport Administration], to the newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From a safety perspective, Trafikverket has decided to revisit the issue of having a national train traffic control system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dThe remaining development work will proceed faster and at a lower cost than if we had continued on the current path,\u201d says Mats Petersson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source: TT-DI.SE<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trafikverket skrotar planerna p\u00e5 ett nytt system f\u00f6r trafikledning. Myndigheten hade redan pl\u00f6jt ner en dryg halv miljard kronor p\u00e5 projektet, skriver Dagens Nyheter. Det nya systemet\u00a0var t\u00e4nkt att ge punktligare t\u00e5g, b\u00e4ttre koll p\u00e5 avvikelser och signalfel. Men nu blir det inget med det nya systemet som var upphandlat av transportf\u00f6retaget Alstom. \u201dDet har […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":296112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4084],"tags":[5521,191,5520,825],"class_list":["post-299364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tag-bransch","tag-system","tag-tag-taag","tag-tagsystem","tag-trafikverket"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n