Mark Prescott is rail technology provider Dual Inventive’s new international business development director, the Dutch company announced on Monday. Prescott joins the firm from Network Rail. He will be tasked with capitalising on growth opportunities...Read more
Siemens Mobility will work with Frankfurt transportation company VGF in refurbishing the city’s metro network with a Communication Based Train Control System (CBTC). The contract marks the first major rollout of a CBTC system in...Read more
Railway engineering company Prose and consultancy Ricardo will join forces in developing a new set of requirements for Freight Automatic Train Operation (ATO) for DB Cargo, the two entities announced earlier this week.Read more
The new German coalition will invest ‘considerably more in the railways than in the roads’. The SPD, Greens and FDP presented their plans in a coalition agreement on Wednesday, which include plans to lower infrastructure...Read more
The railway signalling market in the United Kingdom has too little suppliers, high costs, and Network Rail does not have the procurement practices in place to benefit from its considerable buyer power. That says the...Read more
The two company heads of Russian Railways and Uzbekistan Railways met during a three-day working visit of a delegation of Uzbekistan Railways to Moscow. The companies plan to work together more on digitalisation and create...Read more
Partner articleInfrastructure managers can just buy IoT sensors to collect data and try to do the rest themselves, but this is not the most optimal way, says Thomas Böhm, Head of Product at KONUX. The company...Read more
Partner article“Digitalisation in the railway sector is often about technology, such as automatic trains, ERTMS and predictive maintenance. Those are very interesting developments, but where digitisation can also play a major role are the daily operational...Read more
Deutsche Bahn and Stadler are developing a digital twin of a complete train, a first in rail according to the companies. Real-time data should help to maintain the air conditioning, doors and wheel sets in...Read more
UK’s High-Speed 2 joins forces with Digital Catapult, a leading UK digital technology innovation centre. As part of a three-year agreement, HS2 will draw on Digital Catapult’s expertise to make use of the potential of...Read more
In this blog of RailTech Europe Day 3, you can read updates from the three stages of the digital event, which is all about Smart Infrastructure: sensors, predictive maintenance, data in rail are all discussed....Read more
From the three stages of RailTech Europe Live, many topics relating to digitalisation such as ERTMS, Automatic Train Operation, and communication systems were discussed on day two. As icing on the cake, the winners of...Read more
Alstom will install a digital interlocking in Coburg, Germany on behalf of DB Netz, on the Lichtenfels-Coburg-Sonneberg line section in Bavaria and Thuringia to support DB’s Digital Rail programme. The technology will transmit train control...Read more
Thales presented various new digital applications during a press conference last week. One is a new version of the supplier’s Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) system called SelTracTM G8. This variant has a new digital...Read more
Transfesa Logistics has installed a GPS system on all of the 889 car carrier wagons that operate from Spain to Europe. The aim of the digitalisation is to improve the logistics efficiency. It has already...Read more