Lithuanian company Viezo is working on sensors for the weight monitoring of freight wagons. Loading wagons too heavy on one side can lead to derailments, which has happened…
In the coming years, the current train detection system of track circuits in the Dutch port of Rotterdam on the port railway is being replaced by axle counters.…
The European Commission will formulate EU legislation for “concrete actions” to double rail freight transport and triple the number of high-speed train services by 2050. In the meantime,…
In recent decades, huge investments were done in Europe for the construction of high-speed lines. National networks of thousands of kilometers of track have been built. “Now the…
DB Cargo recently conducted a practical test with ATO on ETCS on the Swiss main rail network. In three and a half months, on-board units from four different…
With more than 8.000 unique visitors of more than 90 different nationalities RailTech Europe 2021 has been a tremendous success. For three days, visitors of this digital event…
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…
At the second day of RailTech Europe 2021, the winners of the 15 nominated companies for the innovation awards were announced: Infrabel, 3M Poland, Network Rail, DB Vertrieb,…
Without ERTMS, the European rail sector cannot make further steps in digitalisation. This was said by ERTMS coordinator Matthias Ruete at RailTech Europe last week. “ERTMS is the…
ProRail is entering into an “innovation partnership” with twelve companies to accelerate the implementation of ERTMS. This was announced on the second day of RailTech Europe Live. In…
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…
Dutch railway operator NS is working with start-up CastLab to digitise its inventory, allowing for the production of metal parts on demand. By digitising obsolete parts, a mold…
RailTech Europe has officially started! On the first day, many topics such as international train travel, the TEN-T network and the Trans Europ Express were discussed. In this liveblog,…
UK-based rail gauging experts D/Gauge are set to release their new ‘Rift’ software package to the industry at large. The Derby headquartered specialists say the clearance assessment software…
Former European Parliament member Wim van de Camp launched the Dutch campaign of the European Year of Rail on Monday at 1.30 pm. He did this together with…