Hitachi Rail STS is a leading world-wide company operating in the sector of high technology for railway and urban transport designing, implementing and managing systems and services for signalling and supervision of railway and urban traffic. The headquarter is in Genoa, Italy with 4,228 employees in 28 different countries. The company has been the first in Europe to develop satellite-based solutions for train control systems since 2011. A first operational system has been delivered in 2018 on a fleet of freight trains in Australia that has cumulated about 3 Million km of service relying on its GPS –high integrity positioning solution. The company is a founding partner and major investor of Shift2Rail coordinating the Technology demonstrators of train positioning and train integrity.