Trials with self-driving trains in Groningen and the Betuweroute to start in 2018
In 2018, ProRail is going to test self-driving trains on the regional network in Groningen and the Betuweroute. The track operator will carry out these tests together with a number of railway operators and the...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
Intelligent Rail Summit 2017 – report about the ATO conference
Automatic Train Operation (ATO) was the theme of the first day of the Intelligent Rail Summit in Vienna, Austria, which featured live webcast coverage for those unable to attend. The day’s proceedings were chaired by...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
Setting the safety standard for ATO in heavy rail operations
Ensuring a sufficient degree of safety is one of the key challenges for Automatic Train Operation (ATO). Whilst ATO applications already exist in metro systems, it is a relatively new development within the domain of...Read more
All systems go for Lima Metro 1’s ATO upgrade
The Peruvian capital Lima’s Metro Line 1 upgrade is a vital project for both city and country. Line 1 will eventually switch to full ATO operation to match the UTO GOA4 proposed for Line 2,...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
‘Don’t get smart in a stupid way’
His company won the tender for the provision of 2,000 Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail, and these sensors will be rolled out in the coming months to monitor point heating...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
‘A common understanding of cyber security necessary in the railway industry’
Digitalisation is truly a mega trend, but not many people are talking about cyber security. It is the most crucial step in the entire process of developing a product; you need to ensure that your...Read more
Wiener Linien’s driverless metro: how it will change Vienna’s underground
He calls it a horizontal elevator. After all, the elevator used to be operated by a person and it was quite some adjustment when people had to go up and down all by themselves. Stepping...Read more