Ansaldo STS (STS)

Hitachi Rail STS S.p.a. operates in railway and urban transport systems markets. It engages in the design, construction, test, commissioning, system engineering, system integration, project management, operation, maintenance, and project financing of high speed lines or its subsystems; and provision of the European railway traffic management system (ERTMS), an interoperable railway signaling system. The company also offers automatic train control systems, which offer the continuous real time transmission of information necessary to enable the on-board systems to supervise train position and speed; and radio block center, a wayside system designed to control railway traffic in ERTMS level 2 equipped territories. In addition, it provides various computer-based interlocking systems for rail and transit comprising ACC that offers route control in a single machine with area controllers; SEI, which supports a relay-based interface to controlled objects; and MicroLok that provides user-programmable safe system delivery. Further, the company offers SCMT, an Italian national train protection system; haul and mining solutions; driverless automatic train control systems; track circuit-based automatic train control systems for heavy and light rail transit; light rail and tramways; computer-aided dispatching systems; traffic planners; systems for marshalling yards; and Web applications. Additionally, it provides equipment and components, such as track circuits, switch machines, signals, and sensors for wayside data transmission; and operation and maintenance services. It operates in Italy, other European countries, North Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, and the Asia Pacific. The company was formerly known as Ansaldo STS S.p.A. and changed its name to Hitachi Rail STS S.p.a. in April 2019. Hitachi Rail STS S.p.a. was founded in 1853 and is based in Genoa, Italy.