Ground transportation

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  On the world's highways and railways, and in urban centers, traffic volumes are growing rapidly, generating congestion, pollution and traffic hazards, and confronting operators with increasing needs in terms of safety, security and comfort for the travellers, as well as operational efficiency and traffic improvement.

  Decongesting city centres, improving traffic flows in the various transport networks, providing attractive and easy-to-use transport, improving safety, security and services to the passengers, as well as enhancing competitiveness and profitability for the operators are the challenges of Intelligent Transport.

  As a leader in providing mission critical solutions for the safety and security markets, Thales responds to these needs by offering a wide range of railways signalling solutions and integrated transportation systems, to ensure safe and secure transportation of goods and people.

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• Main Line Rail

  Transport authorities and operators today face a number of challenges: - Meet the needs for increased mobility spurred by urban population increases - Optimise the use (i.e. increase capacity) of existing rail infrastructure whilst maintaining optimum safety and security. - Make rail transport more attractive to users and provide transport services that meet economic and sustainable development criteria. Railways are meeting these challenges with Thales’ intelligent, high-value solutions. By boosting the capacity of new and existing lines, they enable faster, more frequent services to maximise the return on investment while delivering long-term savings on the maintenance of trackside equipment.

  

• Urban Transport

  The first mega-cities emerged 30 years ago. Now the planet has five times as many urban conglomerations with more than 10 million inhabitants. And still the figures rise. By 2015 there will be 22 mega-cities. With one in two of the world’s population living in cities, the need for non-stop urban and inter-city transport has never been greater. Integration and interoperability at every level of the transport system are key to smooth, continuous metro operations and enhanced safety and security. Thanks to Thales'integrated, secured and safe solutions, all critical data can be centralised on one system and accessed through a single user interface. Thales processes over 100 million e-ticket transactions in 100 cities daily. Electronic ticketing and tag technology gets travellers through the barriers faster while enabling closer co-operation between operators.

  

• Road

  By removing the need to stop and pay, and for roll-through tollbooths to collect cash, electronic ticketing and contactless technology beats the bottlenecks on highways, tunnels and bridges. With interoperable systems, Thales also enables closer co-operation between rail, tram, bus, parking and other service operators for multi-mode transport. The result is seamless travel for countless millions of users, and endless opportunities for tighter integration through forward-looking initiatives such as urban park-and-ride.