GMV technology to run Manila’s local train network in the Philippines

Philippines National Railways (PNR) has taken up GMV’s inhouse railway fleet-management system, SAE-r^®, for Manila’s local/commuter network.

The project, later to be extended to all PNR’s services on the Island of Luzon, will substantially improve PNR’s control of Manila’s municipal transport service, which has a monthly ridership of over 100,000. The system, to be set up by October 2020, will provide PNR with an all-in railway-fleet operation, management and planning system.

GMV’s inhouse railway fleet management system, SAE-r^®, will keep all users permanently informed of the position and state of the train fleet and any operation incidents that might crop up. It will control the whole railway operation in real time; this includes all the following: monitoring of train activity and driver behavior, performing all regulation activities to ensure on-time running, supplying passenger information (bus-stop and on-train panels), managing communications between trains and the control center and supervising the rest of the onboard systems (radio equipment, ticketing equipment, the train’s own equipment, etc). This complete real-time operation, control and management system is rounded out by an advanced tool for a thoroughgoing after-the-event analysis of fleet running, punctuality and any operational events.

Although this represents GMV’s first ever railway project in South-East Asia, the company has already become a worldwide benchmark supplier of railway fleet-management systems. GMV’s inhouse SAE-r^® has now been taken up by national operators like RENFE (freight and passenger) and urban railway infrastructure operators like Servicios Ferroviarios de Mallorca or Tranvía de Zaragoza, plus rolling-stock companies like CAF. Further afield, GMV boasts clients like Alstom in France, Sydney Light Rail in Australia, the tramways of Warsaw, Gdansk and Torun in Poland, ONCF in Morocco and Kaohsiung Light Rail System in Taiwan.

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