• Hitachi Rail installs Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) system to manage the 19 stations on the Cairo-Alexandria line
• With 54 million passengers per year and more than 200 kilometers in length, it is the busiest railway line in Egypt
• The completion of the project will increase the speed of the trains by 40 km/h, reducing the journey time between the two cities to only two and a half hours.
Cairo: Hitachi Rail has completed a new milestone in the process of modernizing Egypt's railway infrastructure with the delivery of the Cairo Traffic Control Center (TCC) to Egyptian National Railways. The CTC marks the completion of an ambitious contract as part of the railway infrastructure transformation plan promoted by the Egyptian Ministry of Transport.
The state-of-the-art Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) system has been implemented to manage the 19 stations that make up the Cairo-Alexandria line. Along with this infrastructure, level crossings have been modernized, enhancing safety for road and rail users; and new technical buildings, including main and secondary towers, have been constructed. (....)