Under an agreement signed on July 17 between GTEL and the Ho Chi Minh City Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR), the two sides will cooperate on system integration, technology acquisition and technology transfer for the city’s metro network.
In the initial phase, solutions will be deployed on the Ben Thanh-Tham Luong route (Metro Line No. 2) and other metro projects scheduled for 2026-2030.
The focus will be on researching and mastering technologies related to communications, signaling, power supply, electromechanical systems, supervisory control and data acquisition, operations control centers, and automatic fare collection.
Leaders of Global Technology and Telecommunications Corporation and Ho Chi Minh City Management Authority for Urban Railways at a signing ceremony to cooperate on metro technology on July 17, 2026. Photo by VnExpress/Ha Giang
GTEL and MAUR will also study and apply advanced technologies to the metro system, including artificial intelligence, digital twins, building information modelling, geographic information systems, the Internet of Things, big data, and electronic identification.
