RailTech Europe`24
RailTech Europe`24: Building the high-speed rail network of the future
Marjorie van Leijen kicks of the RailTech Europe 2024 conference on 6 March 2024. Emma Dailey
Could you place Europe’s seven most significant rail infrastructure projects on a map? It may be harder than you think. Attendees from all over Europe participated in these challenges throughout the RailTech Europe 2024 conference, which kicked off today at the Jaarbeurs, in Utrecht. The topic of the morning? Accelerating high-speed rail’s (HSR) expansion in Europe.
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The Tokyo-Osaka bullet train in Japan is not mag-lev (but it’s true that it lacked interoperability with the 1067mm network at the time). The only operational mag-lev I’m aware of is the Shanghai airport connection which takes 7 min at 430 km/h (or 8 min at 300 km/h) top speed.
OK…, but a New Old Railway, a resilient, a robust, that sustainably provides basics, for Goal of “Union”, now as well, should be at Agenda, or?
(Simply anticipated is, that “optimal maintenance”, reactively quantity, by more funding…, now shall provide for a high quality, a “more robust”…, railway track, or?…)
Regrettably, current track standard neither sustain allowed STAX22,5, nor needed for safety factors (for redundant capacity, for robustness, as otherwise, at serious investments!)