Canada to invest almost 21 million dollars in railway safety
The Government of Canada has plans to invest 20.7 million Canadian dollars (13.7 million Euros) in 105 different railway projects and initiatives, intended to improve railway safety on Canada’s 40,000 kilometres of track. The projects were...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
Automation in railway more complicated than in aviation
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
RailTech Europe 2017 – Day Three review
The third and final day of RailTech Europe 2017 was based on Predictive Maintenance of Rail Infrastructure, and its increasing importance in delivering efficient working practices, cost savings and enhanced safety. Launching proceedings was Marc Antoni,...Read more
The biggest railway knowledge-sharing rail-event in Europe with over 60 workshops
The rail sector is developing rapidly. Sharing knowledge is key to make sure that the whole sector keeps up to speed with all other modalities. RailTech Europe 2017 on 28, 29 en 30 March in Utrecht...Read more
Break down barriers to a culture of rail sector safety
“Their passion makes the trains work.” A simplistic mantra perhaps, but Network Rail’s ‘change champion’ Lynn Chamberlain-Clark is unwavering in her contention that it is the UK rail infrastructure manager’s ‘family of staff’ which makes...Read more
Dutch technology leads to Safety Award for Network Rail
Network Rail’s High Output Track Renewals team ‘Safe and efficient access’ project was crowned the winner of the Safety award 2016 at the National Rail awards, one of the industry’s highest accolades – a project...Read more
Video impression of RailTech conferences
At RailTech 2015 there were two conferences: the ERTMS conference and the Rail Safety and Compliance conference. Watch the video here:Read more
Encourage discussion about unsafe situations in railway industry
Although everyone understands the value and necessity of rules for rail safety, in practice they can still be broken by rail companies. This can have disastrous consequences for the security of both passengers and rail workers...Read more
Network Rail wants zero fatal accidents during track works
There are still too many accidents involving trackside workers in the United Kingdom. Between 2009 and 2014, three trackside workers lost their lives while working on the tracks. In order to reduce the number of...Read more