With a stable asset management solution by its side, two Chinese and one South Korean transit system aim to meet the demands of the explosive mass transportation industry, which has seen massive adoption and patronage especially due to the population growth in recent years.

Sydney’s new Waratah train suburban fleet has improved its technological capabilities by installing an estimated 7,000 network cameras supplied by Axis Communications.

The air travel industry has been beset by a series of global calamities at scales not seen since the SARs epidemic of 2003. Edward Nicol, director of information management at Cathay Pacific Airways, shares his views about the challenges facing all airline operators, and the adjacent industries, as the threats of a global H1N1 pandemic coupled with unstable fuel drives the market in 2009 and 2010.

Confident that the expansion of its international IP transit business will be handled carefully by Juniper Networks, Malaysia’s Global Transit Communications has built its next-generation MPLS VPN International network around Juniper’s infrastructure platforms.

The National University of Singapore has once again struck gold by achieving success in the Eco-car innovation space using MSC Software’s MSC Adams, an engineering analysis tool.

Changchun Rolling Stock Company (CRC) of China has recently implemented an ST Electronics system to provide Passenger Information Systems (PIS) and Security Monitoring Systems for its Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project in Saudi Mashaaer, Saudi Arabia, and MRT line in China.

The logistics industry in India is highly fragmented with a large number of un-organized providers and a few large technology and process driven service providers with integrated offerings. India’s logistics costs, estimated at 13% of the GDP, are higher than those of EU, Japan (11%) or US (10%). The higher logistics costs can be attributed to poor infrastructure and operational inefficiencies in the vertical.

Aiming to implement an innovative platform to optimize train route, reduce energy consumption and improve punctuality within the Dutch Rail infrastructure, ProRail, the Dutch National railway’s infrastructure manager, has chosen to deploy GigaSpaces XAP across its system.