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• Bombardier Transportation has obtained a 10-year, $165 million contract from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to provide maintenance services for the Bombardier Innovia APM 200 automated people mover. Known as Skylink, the 64-car APM system provides service in either direction connecting terminals A through E.

• A temporary consortium including Ansaldo STS has been selected as the private partner to build line 4 of the Milan Metro system. Ansaldo’s contract is valued at $367 million. The consortium, which will manage the line for 24 years after construction, also includes Impregilo, Astaldi, AnsaldoBreda, Sirti and ATM. Ansaldo STS will provide signaling and automation, electric power supply, ticketing and passenger access control, TETRA and Wi-Fi service, onboard train communication systems, SCADA and platform-edge doors.

• Yesterday, Alstom Transport ceremoniously delivered to SNCF the first third-generation Duplex TGV trainset, the first double-deck interoperable very high-speed trainset designed to travel on all European rail networks. SNCF ordered a total of 55 trainsets from Alstom in June 2007. Two trainsets are undergoing final development and approval. Operation is planned for late 2011.

• Signaling Solutions Ltd., a joint venture formed by Alstom Transport and Balfour Beatty plc, has obtained an $8.6 million contract to install Alstom’s Smartlock Interlocking system for the “Crossrail Surface Signaling West Inner” relocking project on the Great Western Mainline in the United Kingdom. The area controlled by the new system covers 12.5 miles and includes the branch line to London’s Heathrow Airport.

• Thales has been selected to provide Tetra radio communications systems for new metro lines in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Panama. The DigiM@x is designed to provide secure communications for onboard, ground-based and operations dispatching. Thales will install DigiM@x on Santo Domingo’s metro line No. 2, which will begin operating in 2012. Thales also will install the DigiM@x solution for the supervision and telecommunications systems of Panama City’s first metro line.