Topic: Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC)

‘DAC is a real game changer for the European Green Deal’

“DAC will boost rail freight transport in Europe by increasing capacity, efficiency and quality of the system”, said Mark Topal, Programme Manager of the European DAC Delivery Programme. He talked to Shift2Rail about the ambitions...Read more

01-02-2021|Comment|author: Esther Geerts

German rail industry: invest in infrastructure, digitalisation and modal shift

At the beginning of the German election year 2021, eight railway associations presented their most important demands for their next federal government. Three billion euros a year for infrastructure, the entire digitalisation of the railways...Read more

26-01-2021|Comment|author: Esther Geerts

Digital coupling reduces human exposure to risks

The Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking has approved the European DAC (Digital Automatic Coupling) Delivery Programme proposed by its Executive Director on request of the railway undertakings. It will encompass all actors of the European rail sector....Read more

24-07-2020|Comment|author: Mykola Zasiadko