Serrano Galvache, 56 - Edif. Álamo, 4º - Planta Sur
28033 Madrid
Madrid España
Phone: +34 91 273 76 80
Fax: +34 91 273 78 67
E-mail: jose.villalpando@thalesgroup.com
Web: http://www.thalesgroup.com
Contact person: Sr. José Ángel Villalpando
Position: Marketing
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Thales is a World leader in Mission Critical Solutions for Land Transportation.

Thales Transportation Systems is a global supplier of signalling and train control systems, telecommunication, supervision and ticketing with advanced technical solutions for Railways and Metro Operators.

With 60 years of presence in Spain, the Transportation Systems Division is part of modern the railway history participating in its evolution in milestones as the first geographical interlocking in 1972 and the first computerized CTC, the automatic continuous train control system for the first high speed line or the presence in all of the current high speed lines. Thales has achieved a leadership position being one of the two main suppliers of safety systems for the Spanish Railways Administrations; with a market share over the 30%, Transportation Systems Division has a real record of installations in domestic and international markets.

Thales has a World leadership position on the signalling market, communication systems and supervision and ticketing systems. Thales provides to Railways Operators its AlTrac solutions (ERTMS/ETCS) for train command and control, NetTrac for the railways network management, LockTrac for electronic interlockings, as well as FieldTrac field equipments (axle counters, point machines, level crossings...).

For Metro Operators, Thales also provides SelTrac communications based train control (CBTC) solutions, NetTrac for network management and Locktrac for interlockings.

And, for transportation networks in general, Thales provides integration of critical systems of Supervision and Control, networks, video surveillance, access control, intrusion and fire detection, passenger information systems, SCADA, revenue collection and ticketing.

Thales Transportation Systems is present in the rail signalling with electronic interlockings, ETCS Level 1 and 2, telecommunication and video surveillance of the high speed lines in commercial operation in Spain:

- Madrid-Seville (year 1992).
- Madrid-Toledo (year 2005).
- Córdoba- Málaga (year 2007).
- Madrid- Valladolid (year 2007).
- Lérida- Barcelona (year 2008).

And the Madrid-Valencia/Albacete and Barcelona-Figueras lines actually under construction. Also it is carrying out the signalling and train control project for the new tunnel Madrid Atocha-Chamartín and converging commuter lines, that means the first application in the world of the European standard ERTMS/ETCS system on commuter lines.

In metro networks, the Transportation System Division has presence in Metro de Madrid with access control systems and communication networks with different radio systems and multiservice IP solutions. Thales has supplied the Operation Control Centre for Metro Bilbao.

- Level crossing protection systems
- Communication gateways
- ATS - Atuomatic Train Supervision System
- Technical assistance / support
- Engineering and technical documentation
- Control and management systems
- ATC - Continuos Automatic Train Control
- Passenger information system
- Wireless data networks
- Information & communication system
- Point machines
- Broad Band
- CTC
- Navigation
- Communications
- Telecommunications & radio-communication infrastructures
- PA, intercom and telephone system
- ATO - Automatic Train Operation System
- Access control systems
- GPRS
- Trams
- Human Machine Interface (HMI)
- Track circuit
- Computer Based Transmission Systems (CBTC)
- GSM-R
- Video surveillance systems
- Signalling and train control maintenance
- ERTMS/ETCS
- Metros
- R&D Project
- Centralised control stations
- Electronic axle counters
- Electronic interlocking
- Security system
- Electric Power Control Systems (SCADA)
- Broadband train-to-ground communication system
- Level crossings protection systems
- Signalling
- Ticketing systems
- Automatic train protection and train control systems
- High Speed trains (on board equipment)
- SRC (Railway management systems)
- Fare collection systems
- Video information system
- ATP - Automatic Train Protection System