PKP Cargo, Polish railway company Pesa Bydgoszcz and Poland’s Institute of Rail Vehicles Tabor are going to collaborate on the...PKP Cargo, Pesa and IPS Tabor to develop autonomous locomotive
In testing automated freight trains on the Dutch Betuweroute this autumn, sensors will be placed to recognise objects on the...Tests autonomous train in Netherlands includes object sensors
Bombardier Transportation has completed its first tests of the latest wayside software release of the European Rail Traffic Management System...Bombardier completes ERTMS Baseline 3 release 2 test
NS CEO: journey time Amsterdam – Berlin to be reduced to four hours in 2023
Dutch Railways (NS), Deutsche Bahn, the Dutch and German Ministry of Infrastructure and the German states involved made far-reaching agreements during the rail trade fair InnoTrans to accelerate the intercity service between Amsterdam and Berlin....Read more
World’s rail supply market volume amounts to 163.2 billion Euros
The rail supply market volume amounts to an average of 163.2 billion Euros. This is the annual average in the period 2015-2017. This value is expected to be 192 billion Euros in 2023, concluded UNIFE...Read more
Strukton signs new partnership in smart maintenance
Strukton Rail announced three new partnerships in carrying out smart maintenance on the first day of Innotrans 2018 in Berlin. Together with Siemens Mobility, Willow and Rail Restore it has developed automatic video recognition, 3D...Read more
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
New Managing Director appointed for Bombardier Transportation in United Kingdom
Bombardier Transportation has appointed senior rail executive Phil Hufton as its new Managing Director and Chairman of the Board for Bombardier Transportation in the United Kingdom, effective from October 1, 2018. In addition, Mr Hufton...Read more
Alstom’s hydrogen trains enter passenger service in Germany
Alstom’s hydrogen train Coradia iLint rolled into the station for the first time in Bremervörde, Germany, this Sunday. Starting on Monday, two iLints will enter commercial service according to a fixed timetable in Lower Saxony. The...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