List of exhibitors 2010

ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 120,000 people.

Specialist of the urban shelters, Abri Plus company developed it range since 20 years in oder to bring you a global offer to shelter everything: travellers, smokers, bikes and motorcycles, trolleys, containers … Initially expert in the manufacturing and the installation of shelters for trolleys in the service of the mass-market retailing, Abri Plus quickly diversified his clientele by developing an offer always more complete for companies and communities. Today, with more than 2000 sold shelters per year, Abri Plus is the leader, in France, on the shelter market.

Design and conception of systems of maintenance for the wheels, brakes, motors, windscreens of trucks, buses, metros, tramways, trains, planes.

Since 1984, ACKSYS a french company offers a wide range of data communication solutions including serial, Ethernet and wireless devices for transportation applications (on-board systems and ground infrastructure).

ACKSYS supplies:
> WiFi AP, Ethernet clients & repeaters
> Ethernet switches (also available with built-in WiFi)
> Serial to Ethernet or wireless Ethernet gateways (WiFi)

Our products are covered by a 5-year standard warranty; they are installed on platforms or on-board (city buses, trains & tramways) for : coach to coach data communications, ticketing, RTPI, AVL, CCTV, station infrastructure applications ...

ACOREL count more than 15 000 Automatic People Counting Solutions around the world since 1989 and work in partnership with representatives in all Europe and in the other continents.
The Acorel system can be installed inside any vehicle, bus, tram and train, or in shops, retail outlets, airports or metro networks or in any public place.
Our services include: equipments manufacturing, installation, telecommunication management, development of onboard and stationary software and hardware interfaces to and from other systems, data exploitation software on the web, project management, commissioning, maintenance, data and maintenance reporting.

As specialist in embedded systems since 25 years, ACTIA Group supports major vehicle manufacturers and fleet operators on: electrical/electronic architecture (multiplexing/power management), instrumentation and driver cockpit, telematics systems (GPRS, WIFI), telecommunication systems, vehicle maintenance (on board and remote diagnostics), platforms for DPI and AVMS, CCTV systems.

Adetel Group 620p & 52M€gross sales, tiers 2 equipment supplier designs, manufactures and industrializes electronics and software systems in harsh environments. 3 foreign subsidiaries based in the US/China/Morocco.Products: Embedded computers-automatisms-power supplies-test tools-certification systems-certified software & FPGA-energy conversion & storage, Consulting-expertise-trainings. New product introduced: neoGREEN, Ground Regenerative Electricity for Economic Network Power (braking energy recovery system).

ACS provides solutions worldwide for all operators of transport infrastructure to collect and maximize revenue and to improve services to their customers.
It designs, develops, implements and maintains turnkey solutions with multimodal and multioperator seamless ticketing systems as ticket vending machines, ticket reloading machines, validators, access control gates, management systems, in magnetic, contactless or dual technology.
With 300 public transport networks in operation throughout the world using ACS systems, more than 100 are contactless solutions.

Aguidon Plus offer a wide range of bike-parking equipment, and partner with the various parties involved in urban cycling to select the most appropriate solutions for each location.

Our equipment responds perfectly to the needs of the new urban cyclist who is looking for quality parking solutions which are adapted to the increasingly high quality - and cost - of bikes. Secure parking systems ensuring no damage to the bikes stored are particularly popular.

In order to guarantee the best choice of quality equipment, Aguidon Plus have selected equipment which is approved and recommended by cycling bodies from the two main cycling nations of Europe, the all powerful ADFC in Germany and the Fietsparkeur in the Netherlands.

Airspan Networks is a global provider of fixed and mobile broadband wireless systems and solutions that deliver voice, high-speed data and multimedia services. Airspan's products serve operators around the world in both licensed and unlicensed frequency bands covering from 700MHz up to 6GHz. Its products have been deployed in over 100 countries by 500 operators, 100 of which use Airspan's WiMAX products. . Airspan Networks provides integrated Wi-Fi/WiMAX network solutions serving wireless broadband operators as well as vertical markets such as the public transport industry. Airspan’s wireless broadband solutions are deployed worldwide for public transport, public safety, CCTV, industrial automation and metro/tram systems applications.

Alcolock France, a subsidiary of Alcohol Countermeasure Systems (ACS), an international group of companies and the leading manufacturer of alcohol interlocks and breath alcohol testers. Alcolock France provides a strong local presence for training, maintenance, logistics and distribution to our customer and dealer base in Europe. With the recent acquisition of the popular 679 series and SAF’IR product line of SERES, Alcolock France has now ventured into the ethylomètre business. In cooperation with the Prévention Routière and Centre for Studies and Research in Traffic Medicine (CERMT), the company has been experimenting with alternatives to suspended driving privileges for convicted drunk-drivers since 2004.

Algoé, a management consultancy firm employing 220 people, has more than 15 years experience of accompanying organisations in the transport sector, in the management and development of their projects, concerning organisational, strategic and operational issues.
An independent firm, Algoé intervenes in a role of Assistance to project managers on investment and exploitation, covering a wide range of transport modes (Regional Train, Light Rail, Subway, BRT...) and associated services (immediate information, ticketing, SAE, transport safety...)

Since 1989, our society became a major actor in the field of visual communication.

Our experience in the decors of vehicles and in signaletics in general allows us to give you the best resolutions adapted to your plans.

Our competences in your service:
- decoration of any means of public transport
- adhesives any formats and any quantities
- numerical impression the big format any support
- signs and internal / outside Signaletics

A promoter of sustainable mobility, Alstom Transport develops and markets the most complete range of systems, equipment and services in the railway sector. Alstom Transport manages entire transport systems, taking in rolling stock, signalling and infrastructure, and offers “turnkey” solutions. Alstom Transport recorded sales of 5.7 billion euros in the fiscal year 2008-2009 and an increase in orders of 9% compared to the previous year. Alstom Transport is present in over 60 countries and employs some 27,000 people.

AMESYS: a Bull Group Company. Leader in high technology critical and secured systems. Markets: Defense/Security, Aerospace, Telecom, Public Transport, Industry.
900 employees at the end of 2009 / 80% of engineers
PUBLIC TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS :
TRAVELLER INFORMATION :
Infotainment, ground-vehicles radio communication (WiFi, TETRA, GPRS, 3G), traveller information (in station and on board), demand responsive transport
PAYMENT & FARE COLLECTION :
RFID Readers (Calypso, Mifare, NFC), contactless validators, portable inspection terminal, handheld terminals for sales and reloading of contactless cards and tickets
ELECTRONICS ON-BOARD :
On-board solutions of data acquisition, embedded computers and consoles, board & equipment reverse-e

MAINTA software solutions offer content tailored to the job of functional transport (Metro, Tram, Bus ...) and has an ergonomic grip to facilitate the application to:
Support for the organization through workflows work, purchase requisition and orders.
Implementation of management processes work like work order, reporting damage, technical intervention and rehabilitation state ...
The ability to manage multiple trees (geographical, functional, technical, warehouse, accounting)
The ability to manage resources (scheduling and planning)
The ability to organize the maintenance plan (range, operation, schedule)
The management of spare parts and replenishment

ARCADIS is an engineering consultant firm specialized in urban and railway transportation projects. In collaboration with their partners such as urban planners, architects, lawyers, etc., ARCADIS can assist, advise and lead transportation projects from beginning to end, thus ensuring the following phases: master plan, transportation planning, displacement, exploitation and socio-economic studies as well as owner, project manager & operator assistance.

ARCHEAN Technologies develops, embeds, installs and maintains products and systems:
- Voice alarm system for public areas and nuclear sites,
- Innovative public address technologies,
- Audio instruction broadcastings for operators,
- Automatic speech and language recognition,
- Text-to-speech technology with lifelike voices,
- Safety transmission technologies for audio over standard networks like Voice over IP,
- Audio digital signal processing,
- Embedded equipments and specific electronic developments.

Vital train-to-ground command & control systems for transportation. 30 years of know-how in safety systems: AREVA TA offers the PEGASUS(TM) product line and a range of services for transportation. Designed, using the state of the art technology for the operators of trams, light rail vehicles metros & regional commuter trains, these solutions meet the demands for risk reduction & optimization of operating costs.
CORYS T.E.S.S., a subsidiary of AREVA TA, world-class leader in simulators, will present its new generation of compact simulator for tram operating, light rail vehicles & national railways. The solutions of acoustic & vibratory engineering and conditional maintenance OneProd of it subsidiary 01dB-Metravib will be also presented.

COTEBA and SOGREAH join together to offer a new global and multi-disciplinary vision of engineering and project management in the fields of building construction, infrastructure, transport, and environment

The Group Esteban has 50 years experience as leader in supplying high quality seats for buses and coaches in the world. Main bodybuilders in Europe and America have been fitting Esteban passenger and driver seats from ever.
In France and from the last years Esteban has been assisting the Management of Transport Companies in improving the comfort, attractiveness and service of their buses with high success.

ASSTRA is the National Association of Public Transport in Italy. Asstra members are 215 operators running urban and suburban public transport services (buses, tramway, trolleybuses, metropolitan railway, light rail, waterborne transport). The associated companies provide around 95% of urban public transport and 75% of the suburban and regional public transport in Italy. They employ almost 100,000 people, and have about 40,000 vehicles covering more than 1,600 Millions kms every year on a network of 210,000 kms and transporting about 5,2 Billions passengers a year in more than 5,000 Italian municipalities with an overall population of 53 Million people; their turnover is more than 8 Billion Euros.

Astromal company specializes in the design and production of:
- Polyester – fiberglass laminate products for vehicles of the public transportation (city buses and coaches, trams, rail buses, the underground, passenger trailers), utilizable vehicles (e.g. hard tops for pick-up trucks)
- Passenger seats and driver seats.
We have our own R&D Department and section for preparing production which offer designing from the initial draft, through making models (in scale 1:5 and 1:1) and moulds, up to manufacturing serial products. Astromal products meet European and worldwide industry standards. The company possess certificates proving the functioning of THE INTEGRATED QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM according to EN ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004.

Monthly magazine dealing with coach and city bus transport.
Headings: material and equipment; Companies current events; Professionnal files. Readership made of coach company holders and fleet managers.
With a circulation of 23,000 copies, Autocar & Bus Infos is the most distributed magazine among all the coach transport press titles.