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Friday, March 2, 2012

China tested a train capable of traveling at 500 kilometers per hour

The China Railway Construction CSR has just launched its first train test capable of reaching 500 kilometers per hour , the highest speed attained by these vehicles, as reported by Xinhua news agency. The new series of CRH (China Railway High Speed, for its acronym in English), is gray, has six cars and has a capacity of 22,800 kilowatts , compared to 9,600 kilowatts of current "CRH380 bullet train", which reaches over 300 kilometers per hours. The technical manager of the company, Sansan Ding says that this device is super-fast "was inspired by an ancient Chinese sword," and that the plastic body of the vehicle is reinforced with carbon fiber. For the Asian country, the expansion of this kind of transportation is of great importance in the economic, cultural and social development of different regions.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Renfe trains will have Wi-Fi

Madrid (Portaltic / EP) .- The company Renfe has confirmed that its fleet of trains will have a wireless network in a totally free . It is a further improvement in the experimental stage trains whose application to "take time" because of the funding needed for more than 1,200 trains.

The main rail network of Spain wants to bring Internet access to passengers through wireless Wi-Fi , service in high demand by the users of long distance trains users as suburban .

In that sense, this upcoming release is in experimental phase, which is giving "positive results" in the coming months and will begin pilot tests with real travelers, in the words of Chief Technology and System Renfe, Lucas shoes Arija, collected the official blog of Renfe.

The fact incorporate technological form of a train connection to the Internet is not impossible, but if you should take into account "the coverage offered by communications operators in the area" that is being crossed by the train and the speed of conditioned train to avoid this provision, added the director.

On the other hand, aims Renfe already preinstalled wireless communications network in those trains that pass review. Furthermore, this type of service aims to offer other free utilities not only to connect to the Internet.

The provision of this service will be free, because if you pay for "is no longer Wifree" and the interest shown by travelers "down" more than 90 percent.

As for her free before the law, the director has stated that a legal framework that regulates the use of these services, and is specially supervised by the Telecommunications Market (CMT).