From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ee6c844569cf8b03,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Subject: New York subway automation seems to be going Ada's way Date: 1999/11/15 Message-ID: <80qfpd$6b9@felix.seas.gwu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 549103406 X-Trace: grover.nit.gwu.edu 942719166 128.164.9.3 (Mon, 15 Nov 1999 21:26:06 EST) Organization: George Washington University NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 21:26:06 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: news@nit.gwu.edu Date: 1999-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Hi all, See http://www.tsd.org/communic (the site devoted to Communications-Based Train Control, or CBTC) for an update dated today which says, in part: "NYCT's technical review committee selects Siemens/MATRA for its lead CBTC Supplier. "15 NOV 1999 - Last week multiple independent sources confirmed that NYCT asked Siemens/MATRA to be its lead CBTC technology supplier. At the same time it also invited Alcatel and Alstom, the other two short-listed firms, to build systems compatible with the Siemens/MATRA design. If NYCT's governing board, the MTA, sustains its staff recommendation, Matra/Siemens likely becomes NYCT's standard for CBTC. A centerpiece of this program is interoperability at key system interfaces." If this decision is confirmed by the higher-ups, we have another nice Ada-inside project in the US. Recall that the MATRA system is the one developed for the automated Paris Metro line 14 (Meteor). This article goes on to mention that the MTA board (the state-level agency responible for the New York City subways and buses, as well as the Long Island and Metro NOrth commuter rail systems, some bridges and other bus systems) meets Nov. 22 and will hopefully confirm the decision and make it public. Stay tuned. Mike Feldman