Siemens Mobility, in consortium with Sonda México, has been awarded a contract to deliver ETCS Level 1 signalling on the more than 300 km Mexico City–Querétaro–Irapuato corridor.
The contract is Siemens Mobility’s first ETCS project in Mexico. The company will design, engineer, supply, install and commission ETCS Level 1 wayside equipment, an Operational Control Center (OCC) with a backup facility, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for infrastructure monitoring.
Siemens Mobility will also deploy its TPS.plan timetable planning software, developed by subsidiary HaCon, in Latin America for the first time. The system uses microscopic infrastructure modelling to generate conflict-free timetables and optimise track capacity allocation.
Consortium partner Sonda México will provide telecommunications systems, CCTV and civil works under the project scope.
The Mexico City–Querétaro–Irapuato corridor links the capital with the states of Hidalgo, Querétaro and Guanajuato, including the Bajío region. The deployment of ETCS Level 1 will introduce a standardised train protection system designed to supervise train speed and movement authority across the route.
