There are now less than two weeks to go until the Intelligent Rail Summit, which will be held in Konstanz, Germany. On November 16-17, speakers from operators, infrastructure managers, technology companies and the academia will...Read more
D/Gauge, the UK specialists in gauging and clearance assessment, have expanded their services to include dynamic vehicle modelling. According to the Derby-based engineers, the new offering will provide greater benefits to vehicle owners, manufacturers, operators...Read more
“Quality data helps to make better decisions about rail infrastructure, and this role will only become bigger“, says Bert Verplancke, Regional Sales Director Northern Europe for HxGN EAM at Hexagon. He will give a free...Read more
By collecting data with sensors, manual inspections of railway infrastructure on a regular basis are no longer needed. At RailTech Europe, RailMonitor gives a free workshop about identifying failures with monitoring data from Luxembourg.Read more
Spanish railway manager Adif and the National Geographic Institute (IGN) have started a collaboration to use the fibre optic network along the rails to detect possible earthquakes. They will also develop scientific and technological activities...Read more
A new diagnostic carriage that Italian infrastructure manager RFI revealed, will have the task of monitoring the main conventional lines. The Aldebaran 2.0 can monitor the state of the infrastructure (rails, power line and telecommunications)...Read more
“We can’t afford to send out a maintenance team when we don’t know what’s going on, we have to anticipate failures”, says Diego Galar, professor of condition monitoring at the Luleå University of Technology in...Read more
French rail infrastructure manager SNCF Réseau is using a new application for real-time track monitoring of its rail network in collaboration with technology company Capgemini. The tool called ‘New Generation Supervision’ is in use in...Read more
Network Rail is looking for a more accurate and efficient way to measure Britain’s network. Swedish engineering company Hexagon will support this intention with its solutions that use LiDAR data and artificial intelligence.Read more
Using measurement methods via fibre optic cables alongside railway tracks delivers more and more up-to-date, data on the condition of railway infrastructure. This allows infrastructure managers to monitor the infrastructure in real-time and so react...Read more
Satellites can be a powerful means for the maintenance of rail infrastructure. To examine this, Deutsche Bahn (DB) is making shots of trackside trees from space. Thus the railway undertaking plans to create precise digital...Read more
German rail infrastructure manager DB Netze has installed 28,000 smart turnouts on its network. They are vital for implementing predictive maintenance solutions and increasing safety on tracks. With the help of the smart turnouts, the...Read more
Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail started in 2017 with DataLab, a special cooperation that is engaged in developing new solutions for preventing faults using data analysis and sensoring. The first experiments of the lab have now...Read more
Railway tracks in South West England will be surveyed with the RILA system. This innovative solution was developed by Dutch technology company Fugro. It allows Network Rail to obtain a holistic and accurate view of...Read more
A crisis such as the current corona pandemic shows how dependent vital processes are on manual operations. According to tech companies, it would be good to learn lessons from this period and so make more...Read more
