RailTech Europe
RailTech Europe ’24: Developing sustainable tendering for rail
During the 2024 edition of the RailTech Europe Conference, Sven Schirmer and Dr. Matthias Landgraf will discuss the question of making the tendering process within the rail industry more sustainable. RailTech.com spoke with Dr. Landgraf on this topic, and on how the collaboration between research institutions and companies can be strengthened to promote sustainable practices.
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All other modes, however, decisively, offensively, upgrade, for added load and lower costs, simply for meeting demand from dito clients…
(Now at year 2024, rapid shift, is the new sustainable!)
A shift, a New Old Railway, a resilient, a redundant, a robust, now is the needed!
For sake of railways, for sake of all, now an openminded, an offensive, railway industry is a must!
Not until proving “equal”, just a minority will afford luxury, of not benefitting of alternatives (those the robust)!
Railway is a device, not a goal!
As a mature industry, research reports neither is lacking, nor denying, where bottlenecks exist!
(Squats, cracks, “RCF” – at railhead – reactively, suboptimal, is met by “optimal maintenance”, now big business…) This is not sustainable!
Old standards, optimal, before WWII, now are due for outing, not for devastatingly cementing, at TEN-T, etc.!