Lithuanian company Viezo is working on sensors for the weight monitoring of freight wagons. Loading wagons too heavy on one side can lead to derailments, which has happened in the past. Like all of Viezo’s...Read more
When it comes to restoring disruptions on the track, the manual planning for taking track out of service still causes hours of delay. Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail recently started using an application developed in collaboration...Read more
“Much less hassle with mail, paper and telephone contact, it helps to keep the certification of personnel up-to-date and the administration is more efficient”, says Frank Horstra of VolkerRail about RailApp. The closed transaction and...Read more
In recent years, the UK rail industry has been embracing new technologies to both increase track capacity and improve the safety of rail workers. Adrian Calladine, Product Implementation Coordinator at Dual Inventive Ltd, works to...Read more
DB Cargo agreed with Alstom to equip thirteen freight locomotives with the ETCS signalling standard technology. They will use Alstom’s Atlas ETCS Baseline 3 Release 2 solution, which complies with the latest European standards for...Read more
Knorr-Bremse has signed a cooperation agreement with Deutsche Bahn on the use and analysis of train operating data and vehicle subsystem data. The agreement aims to use big data insights to improve condition-based maintenance of...Read more
“DAC will boost rail freight transport in Europe by increasing capacity, efficiency and quality of the system”, said Mark Topal, Programme Manager of the European DAC Delivery Programme. He talked to Shift2Rail about the ambitions...Read more
The deployment of ERTMS is lagging behind schedule. In April 2020, the installation of the system reached just 78 percent of the target for 2019. Under the ERTMS European deployment plan, the EU signalling system...Read more
HERE Technologies is providing HD mapping technology for the Sensors4Rail project of Deutsche Bahn. In the pilot, DB will equip a Hamburg S-Bahn train with innovative sensors that locate the train and monitor surroundings, which...Read more
The European Commission has approved a 200 million euros investing scheme by the German state for the upgrade of rail vehicles in the area of Stuttgart. Financial support will take the form of direct grants...Read more
Nokia announced that it has been selected by Austrian rail operator Westbahn to implement a new high-bandwidth train-to-ground WiFi network across the operator’s newly expanded fleet of intercity trains. The network uses intelligent switching, a...Read more
HS1 Ltd, the owner and operator of the UK’s only high-speed railway, is part of a project that develops augmented reality technology that will virtually replicate rail assets on the High Speed One line by...Read more
Russian Railways has launched a high-speed technological data transmission network in Russia’s Far Eastern region and commissioned a new communication network control centre in Moscow. The railway company calls the network ‘essential for a digital...Read more
Alstom completes a deal where the company invests 7 million US dollars in a cooperation with Cylus, an Israeli company specializing in railway cybersecurity. This deal allows the French company to acquire a small stake...Read more
Although the new head of infrastructure at Swiss railway company SBB, Peter Kummer, was responsible for IT in the last ten years, he thinks his company or railways in general do not need a digital...Read more
