SNCF, Shift2Rail introduce digital brake testing on freight trains
SNCF, Shift2Rail and Traxens have created digital brake testing for freight trains, the companies announced at trade fair InnoTrans 2018 on Tuesday. It is the first step toward creating a fully digital freight train, the...Read more
Survey: 66 per cent of Europeans are satified with frequency trains
According to a survey of the European Commission 66 per cent of Europeans are satisfied with the frequency of trains. 59 per cent of the people who travel by train in Europe are satisfied with...Read more
SNCF sets up consortia to develop driverless trains
The French national railway company SNCF, together with manufacturers Alstom, Thales and Bombardier and six other railway companies, has set up two consortia for the development of self-driving trains. One consortium focuses on freight trains and...Read more
TU Graz is using acoustic waves to detect track failures
Graz University of Technology wants to use acoustic waves to detect track failures and worn components. In many countries, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is already being used to identify the location of trains. Ivan Vidovic is Research...Read more
Dual Inventive uses AR to showcase innovations at InnoTrans
Dutch technology company Dual Inventive, together with Strukton Rail, is present at the InnoTrans 2018 trade fair for transportation technology, which takes place from 18 to 21 September in Berlin. Dual Inventive will showcase the...Read more
Network Rail Scotland uses 3D scanner for railway modelling
Network Rail Scotland has begun using a track-based three-dimensional scanner to model the railway infrastructure ahead of the arrival of new trains onto the network. With new fleets of trains arriving onto Scotland’s railway, including...Read more
Alstom to install Wi-Fi on PKP trains
Polish railway company Polskie Koleje Państwowe (PKP) signed a contract with Alstom for the installation of Wi-Fi in Express InterCity Premium (EIP) trains, which were originally built by Alstom as Pendolino trains. The first EIP...Read more
CER calls for extra 10 billion to fund digitalisation in railways
The Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) has called for an additional 10 billion Euros in the new CEF transport budget to support the digital transformation of rail. Without this support, the deployment...Read more
Network Rail to start trials with 5G
Network Rail and the British government will soon start trials with a 5G network for passengers on the TransPennine Express connection between Leeds and Manchester. The aim is to improve the Wi-Fi connection in trains...Read more
Bombardier opens new high-tech laboratory in Germany for railway technology
Bombardier Transportation opened a new high-tech laboratory in Mannheim, Germany Thursday. Bombardier has invested around 1 million Euro in the new laboratory. The laboratory will develop and test pioneering electronics systems for train control and...Read more
‘Combine data with observations and physics for track maintenance’
“Data only acquires meaning when it is combined with physical observations and models. Then it becomes information”, says Diego Galar, Professor of Condition Monitoring at Luleå University of Technology (LTU). “You need to know the...Read more
‘Railway sector must face challenge of loss of expertise with digitalisation’
All over the world, human resource management strategies have lead to a loss of experts in the field of railway infrastructure management, according to Johannes Neuhold and Matthias Landgraf at Graz University of Technology. “The only chance...Read more
Network Rail uses drone to survey railway
Network Rail performed its first drone survey last Friday on the southwestern rail route near Bournemouth, England. The drone made its first flight to survey a trespass hotspot, looking to record anyone risking their lives...Read more