SelTrac CBTC to control street-running trams as Muni resignalling agreed

USA: Hitachi Rail has won a contract to modernise signalling on San Francisco’s Muni light rail network using its SelTrac communications-based train control equipment.

The contract includes a 10-year service support agreement with an option for 10 further years.

The Muni network has a mixture of light rail, streetcars, heritage vehicles and cable-hauled cars, operating on-street and in tunnel. The Train Control Upgrade Project will provide a single network-wide system to regulate the flow of vehicles across the light rail net…