Digital rail will be top of mind during Intelligent Rail Summit 2019 in Paris
In November, Paris will be immersed in the world of digital rail when the three-day Intelligent Rail Summit 2019 takes place at the UIC headquarters. This high-level conference that will be held on 19, 20...Read more
Siemens Mobility proves cybersecurity of its rolling stock
German technology supplier Siemens Mobility has confirmed the cybersecurity of its Rolling Stock business unit for meeting the international IT security standard IEC 62443. It means that the train control and IT systems in the...Read more‘European railways have no future without cost-effective digitalisation’
New challenges require from the rail sector to keep pace with the times and move towards digitalisation. What should the process include? At the Intelligent Rail Summit 2019 Libor Lochman, Executive Director of the Community...Read more
Intelligent Rail Summit 2019 open for registration
The Intelligent Rail Summit 2019 is now open for registration. The event will take place on 19-21 November in the headquarters of UIC Paris, France. Two themes will be discussed by several railway experts: Automatic...Read more
UNIFE calls for European platform on rail digitalisation
The Association of the European Rail Industry (UNIFE) considers digitalisation inevitable for the rail sector development. To support and facilitate the process, the European Commission should establish a coordinated approach towards digital technologies, prepare a...Read more
‘Railways go to modularity, interconnectivity and technologies’
Monika Heiming, Executive Director at European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM Rail), spoke about predictive maintenance at the RailTech Europe Conference, held in the Netherlands last week. “Efficient predictive maintenance is key to increase the performance...Read more
Watch the webinar replay of Intelligent Rail Summit 2017
The Intelligent Rail Summit 2017 about Automatic Train Operation and Cyber Security in Rail that took place at the end of November was very inspirational. Did you miss this event? We are happy to announce...Read more
WannaCry virus was ‘wake-up call’ for railway industry
The infection of the Deutsche Bahn systems by the WannaCry virus earlier this year was a wake-up call for the management of Deutsche Bahn, explained cyber security expert Christian Schlehuber from DB Netz AG during...Read more
Photo galleries of the Intelligent Rail Summit 2017
Railway experts from all over the world shared their views on Automatic Train Operation (ATO) and Cyber Security in Rail during the Intelligent Rail Summit 2017 in Vienna. The organisation has published the photo galleries...Read more
Cyber threat presents ‘challenging conditions’ for rail: IRS2017
‘Industrial espionage, blackmail, political motivation…’ – just some of the reasons why cyber criminals might want to target the railway industry. Those were some of the observations of Christian Sagmeister of ÖBB, speaking on the...Read more
Watch Intelligent Rail Summit 2017 – live webinar
A webinar of the forthcoming Intelligent Rail Summit in Vienna from November 28-30 means anyone who cannot attend in person can follow it all online. There is still time to register to attend this vitally...Read more
‘Railway managers should be more aware of cyber threats’
Railway systems were traditionally not the open access systems as they are today. Although new technologies are applied, the railway industry has not kept up with these developments and many players involved believe they are...Read more
Professor Rob Goverde invites you to the Intelligent Rail Summit 2017
Automatic Train Operation aims at transferring the responsibility of train operation from the train driver to the train control system. At the Intelligent Rail Summit 2017 the challenges of ATO for mainline railways will be...Read more