• Alstom’s digital control solution makes MÁV-START’s Flirt electric trains safer and faster with a train control system that meets European standards / • Premiere for Hungary: the first retrofitting of electric trains with an ETCS train control system / • Alstom will equip a total of 59 Flirt electric trains with ETCS Level 2 and the project is expected to be completed in September 2023 / 20 February 2023 – Alstom, a global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, has reached an important milestone in the fleet modernisation project of the Flirt-type electric trains of MÁV-START - with European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2, designed to increase the speed and safety. The first 36 of 59 units have received the market authorisation license and are now back in passenger traffic equipped by Alstom’s Atlas ETCS Level 2 L2 train control equipment that meets the strict European requirements. The entire project is scheduled for completion in September 2023, following a certification procedure involving extensive testing and verifications. Alstom was awarded this project through a public procurement process. (....)