RailTech Europe 2017 – Day Two review
Digitalisation in Railways was the captivating theme for Day Two of RailTech Europe 2017, which has attracted several thousand rail professionals from across the world. Joan Blaas of conference organisers ProMedia reflected on the opening...Read more
Rail sector works collectively on one information model
Currently, rail sector businesses are still talking in different ways about track switches. Programme Manager Raymond Soeters and CIO Office Manager Arjen Boersma from ProRail believe that it must soon all be in one standard...Read more
Smart data from Big Data in the rail arena
Quality over quantity. That’s the principle which Matthias Landgraf believes underpins the value of ‘Big Data’ in the rail sector, and one which he will be sharing with rail professionals from across the world at...Read more
‘Big data in railway operations is not the future, but a day-to-day business’
Professor Stefan Marschnig from the Graz Technical University has summarized the lessons learned at the Intelligent Rail Summit on 22, 23 and 24 November 2016 in Naples (Italy). Below you can find his speech. Ladies and...Read more
Intelligent Rail Summit – Day Three
Its very name means the huge potential of ‘Big Data’ – the term we’ve come to know for data which is so large and difficult to process using traditional techniques – was the perfect platform for...Read more
Delegates give their view on the Intelligent Rail Summit
Over 150 rail tech experts from across the world visited the three day conference Intelligent Rail Summit in Naples last week. Delegates gave their view on how they experienced the event the National Railway Museum...Read more
Searching for a ‘data graveyards’ solution
Railways have yet to fully realise the benefits of making best use of operational information collected – much of which is still ending up in ‘data graveyards’. That will be one of the main messages...Read more
Automatic data reporting tackles EU cultural barriers
Cultural differences between how different EU countries record and interpret ‘events’ on the freight network can be tackled – and with it safety levels enhanced – through automatic reporting systems. That’s the view of the...Read more
The virtual intelligence of freight wagons
The era of Big Data will make freight wagons ‘virtually intelligent’ – that’s the key message from Peter Boom, whose company Voestalpine Signaling offers solutions with cutting-edge RFID technology that enables railway undertakings to organise...Read more
All digital infrastructure information in one place with SpoorData
Looking at the details of a broken track object before going onto the track, providing information about the future network to the logistic planning process much earlier, and driving a train through a station before...Read more