Thales Rail Signalling Solutions was a division of Thales Group that supplies transportation-based automation solutions for railways. Its operations are controlled from several locations:
- its head office in Paris, France
- its railway business divisional centers in Ditzingen and Berlin, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Hengelo, the Netherlands
- its mass transit business divisional centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
History
The original moving block signaling system for rapid transit was introduced by Urban Transportation Development Corporation (an Ontario Crown corporation) for its Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS). In 1985, the ICTS technology was successfully implemented on three new railway lines in North America, all of which continue to use the system today: