In October it became known that Russian Railways plans to upgrade their economy class cars. The company’s CEO Oleg Belozerov promised that “on the basis of forming common or second-class carriage, in a common space without the compartment will create a personal zone of comfort.” And now, a month later, the Agency RIA “Novosti” showed a new concept of second-class carriages of Railways. Enjoy.
New cars that promise the modular division of space, seats with curtains and vending machines. Also there will be (finally) the electrical sockets and USB sockets and individual lighting.
New cars Railways
In addition to personalized second-class seats, and toilets will get a hygienic showers, automatic taps, soap dispensers, paper towels, built-in Hairdryer. Promise also changing tables.
The representative of Russian Railways assured the authenticity of the images presented by the Agency, and modernization of cars will begin in 2019.
“Even discusses the options of capsule, where passengers will have created the individual space. There are proposals for “space-transformer” where it would be possible to form a place to visit,” promised Belozerov.
In April 2017, it became known that Russian Railways is also looking for developer of an autopilot for their trains. It was necessary to work fast, because one of the mandatory conditions stipulated by the Railways, was the completion of the work before the end of 2019. To develop a hardware-software complex planned to spend about 318 million rubles. However, there is still time. Partly in the Railways unmanned technology is already being applied. At the station Luga in the Leningrad region, for example, sorting of wagons with automatic control of locomotive was used in that year.
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