Machine learning is an important asset to predict where track maintenance will be needed, Dirk Bothof of Asset Insight says. Machine learning is an artificial intelligence technique that gives computers the ability to learn. Asset...Read more
Graz University of Technology wants to use acoustic waves to detect track failures and worn components. In many countries, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is already being used to identify the location of trains. Ivan Vidovic is Research...Read more
If the Netherlands wants its rail network to perform as well as Japan, the impact of disruptions on the track must be reduced. That can be done by disentangling the rail network and combining the...Read more
“Data only acquires meaning when it is combined with physical observations and models. Then it becomes information”, says Diego Galar, Professor of Condition Monitoring at Luleå University of Technology (LTU). “You need to know the...Read more
All over the world, human resource management strategies have lead to a loss of experts in the field of railway infrastructure management, according to Johannes Neuhold and Matthias Landgraf at Graz University of Technology. “The only chance...Read more
As the tracks are being used more and more worldwide, the timeframe in which the infrastructure can be serviced becomes shorter. Especially on busy tracks, it is no more than a couple of hours per...Read more
ProRail collects a lot of data on rolling stock via its Wayside Train Monitoring Systems (WTMS). The Dutch infrastructure manager is calling on the rail sector to make use of this ‘treasure trove of data’...Read more
Digitalisation is fundamental for asset management in the rail sector, as it makes it possible to share information about track sections, ‘the assets’, with everyone. “Really, every track section should have its own Facebook page”,...Read more
The registration for the Intelligent Rail Summit 2018 is now open. The event will take place on 27-29 November in Malmö, Sweden. The themes of the summit are Infrastructure Mononitoring and WTMS, and Railway Infrastructure...Read more
The call for papers for the RailTech Intelligent Rail Summit 2018 is now open. The summit will be held in Malmö, Sweden this November. Themes include infrastructure monitoring and data management. The deadline to submit the...Read more
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
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
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
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
‘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