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Tobu Railway, the private railway serving northwest of Greater Tokyo and the wider Kanto region, unveiled new Tobu Class 80000 EMUs.
On 12 December 2024, Škoda Group and Tampereen Raitiotie signed a contract for the delivery of seven new four-car bi-directional ForCity Smart Artic X34 trams and one additional module to extend one of the existing three-car trams.
Siemens Mobility, in collaboration with its Parklife Metro consortium partners, has revealed a realistic model of a car for the Sydney Metro - Western Sydney Airport line.
On 27 January 2025, the Škoda Group presented the first ForCity Plus 52T tram destined for Praha to representatives of DPP and the media.
On 20 January 2025, Alstom announced that it will supply the Métropole Européenne de Lille (MEL) with fifteen additional 52-metre long new-generation automated metro trainsets, at a cost of around 210 million EUR.
The second exhibit of the Chinese manufacturer at InnoTrans 2024 was the ART 2.0 "tram on tyres".
The CRRC's presence as the world's largest manufacturer of rolling stock can be considered as a relatively groundbreaking moment in the history of vehicles exhibited at InnoTrans because this time the company brought two real exhibits to Berlin.
On 10 December 2024, the new-generation Citadis trams entered service on line T1 of the Île-de-France Mobilités network.
On 9 December 2024, Alstom signed a contract with SNCF Voyageurs for the supply of 35 additional RER NG trains for the RER E line on the Île-de-France Mobilités network.
The BACS consortium led by Bechtel, along with local construction companies Almabani and Consolidated Contractors Company, and in collaboration with Siemens Mobility, successfully delivered Riyadh Metro´s 64 km Blue Line (line 1) and Red Line (line 2), equipped with 67 Siemens Mobility Inspiro trains for fully automated, driverless operations.
Stadler US (STAUS) has grown rapidly in recent years. To support and strengthen this development, the Board of Directors has decided to separate the US location from the Swiss division as of 1 January 2025, creating its own North America division.
On 13 October 2024, JR East began testing new green class double-deck coaches in commercial service on the Chuo Line in Tokyo.
CAF secured two new agreements to expand the number of units in its current projects: it will supply the Dutch operator GVB with 13 additional trains for the Amsterdam metro, and it will increase the number of units for the new Palermo city tram network.
On 11 November 2024, the Barcelona Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM) put into commercial service the new extension of Barcelona’s tramway, an extension of approximately two kilometres – that incorporates Alstom's innovative catenary-free technology, known as APS.
On 30 October 2024, Stadler has signed a contract with the Lisbon metro operator Metropolitano de Lisboa for the supply of 24 vehicles.