Drones will inspect Deutsche Bahn infrastructure
Deutsche Bahn (DB) will participate in the pilot project ‘Urban Air Mobility’ to test the potential of drones in different areas. The German railway company plans to use…
Algorithm leads to breakthrough in measuring trackside trees
Data scientist Anahita Khosravipour has developed an algorithm which measures the size, shape and height of trees next to a track, as well as how close they are…
āDigitalisation is challenging but crucial for the railway sectorā
āDigitalisation is a very challenging topic for the railway sector, but I think it can ultimately revolutionise the sector,ā Johannes Neuhold from the Graz University of Technology argues.…
Network Rail Scotland uses 3D scanner for railway modelling
Network Rail Scotland has begun using a track-based three-dimensional scanner to model the railway infrastructure ahead of the arrival of new trains onto the network.
Network Rail uses drone to survey railway
Network Rail performed its first drone survey last Friday on the southwestern rail route near Bournemouth, England. The drone made its first flight to survey a trespass hotspot,…
Registration for Intelligent Rail Summit 2018 now open
The registration for the Intelligent Rail Summit 2018 is now open. The event will take place on 27-29 November in Malmƶ, Sweden. The themes of the summit are…
Call for papers RailTech Intelligent Rail Summit 2018 is open
The call for papers for the RailTech Intelligent Rail Summit 2018 is now open. The summit will be held in Malmƶ, Sweden thisĀ November. Themes include infrastructure monitoring and…
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…
Intelligent Rail Summit – Day Three
Its very name means the huge potential of ‘Big Data’ – the term we’ve come to know for data which is so large and difficult to process usingĀ traditional…
Searching for a ‘data graveyards’ solution
Railways have yet to fully realise the benefits of making best use of operational information collected – much of which is still ending up in ādata graveyardsā. That…
Intelligent Rail Summit 2016 conference programme is now available
We are pleased to announce that the conference programme for the Intelligent Rail Summit is now available. It promises to be an exciting conference, with thought provoking sessions…
‘Identification tags on trains need to be a European requirement’
“It would be great if there was a European requirement to equip trains with RFID tags”, says Juliette van Driel, Chain Director Wayside monitoring systems at ProRail. RFID…
Permanent monitoring system on passenger train prevents track failure
Unexpected failures in track infrastructure result in big disadvantages for the traveler. A permanent monitoring system on board a double-decker train should ensure that Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail…