Pilot with cross-company train driver deployment to ease strain on rail freight in Germany
Freight train in Bavaria, image: Deutsche Bahn
Deploying train drivers more flexibly across the many rail freight companies in Germany could make better use of rail capacity, which is currently straining in many places in the country. A project with the Pro-Rail Alliance and startup Menlo79 aims to find out whether and how a digital solution can transform the deployment of drivers, starting a pilot test next year.
Want to read more?
You have read all of your free premium articles for this month. Please become a subscriber to keep reading.
Subscribe now!
Take advantage of our exclusive offer to get full access to all premium content.
Capacity of railway infrastructure, needs to be added, so does utilisation of assets, of staff, etc.
A marginal extra, at construction, provides for value added, all over, for reduced noise, etc.
Costly derailments, fatal, etc…, where broken rail… and track condition, by far is the most frequent reason, shall not reduce capacity, as currently.
By reduced costs, as well track charges can be, thus adding to edge, etc., etc.
An Old Railway upgrading, step by step, pays – within 10 years!