In the aviation industry automated systems are already implemented to a much larger extent than currently in railway systems. Airplanes are for a large part operated by a computer, rather than the pilot in the...Read more
TU Delft has appointed Rob Goverde as Full Professor of Railway Traffic Operations and Management at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. Goverde will chair the first day of the Intelligent Rail Summit 2017...Read more
Mining company Rio Tinto will start operating completely autonomous freight trains by the end of 2018. The trains will move between fifteen iron ore mines and four port terminals in the West-Australian province of Pilbaro,...Read more
Implementing Automatic Train Operation (ATO) in the rail freight sector will attract specialists and young talent. That is the expectation of Christian Sagmeister of ÖBB Infrastruktur AG, which currently works on the preparation of the...Read more
Alstom and Airbus have started a strategic cooperation in the field of cyber security. The agreement was signed earlier this year by Marc Fontaine, Marc Fontaine, Digital Transformation Officer at Airbus and Pascal Cléré, Senior...Read more
Siemens has won the tender of Wiener Linien for the delivery of 45 metro trains. Some of these metro trains will be operation the new driverless metro line U5 in Vienna, Austria. On the new...Read more
Why would an infrastructure manager be involved in the automation of train driving? Alfons Schaafsma, advisor Innovation and Development at the Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail will elaborate on this question at the Intelligent Rail Summit...Read more
Whereas the focus of Automated Train Operation (ATO) is mostly on metro, Xiaolu Rao discusses implementation of ATO methods in mainline railways, a far more challenging innovation, she believes. Rao will present her model at...Read more
The Intelligent Rail Summit 2017 takes place in Vienna this year on the 28th, 29th and 30th of November. It will be held at the Info Center of Wiener Linien, marked by the themes ‘Automatic Train...Read more
Registration for the Intelligent Rail Summit 2017 is now open. At this international railway conference, the latest information on Automatic Train Operation (ATO) and Cyber Security in Rail will be provided. The event takes place...Read more
In the fourth quarter of 2017, the Intelligent Rail Summit 2017 will take place as part of the RailTech Expert Series. Last November, the Intelligent Rail Summit 2016 in Napels (Italy) was very successful. The call...Read more