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July 26, 2021 | Fleet

Collaboration crucial for improved fleet availability

Collaboration between manufacturers, sub-suppliers and operators is key to improving fleet availability and reducing maintenance times. Siemens’ new Alliance for Availability aims to do exactly this, as Siemens Mobility CEO - customer service, Johannes Emmelheinz, explains to David Burroughs.

March 22, 2021 | Signalling

Unlocking network capacity

Signalling technology has gone through various revolutions in the past 60 years as railways have pursued increases in performance and capacity. Kevin Smith charts the key milestones and looks at continuing efforts to transfer metro automation to the mainline.

February 22, 2021 | Technology

Respira offers a breath of fresh air

Sener, Spain, has developed an AI system called Respira to improve air quality, regulate temperature and humidity while reducing the risk of spreading coronavirus.

January 25, 2021 | Telecoms

Urban Rail Cloud facilitates network-wide automation

Securing a seat on a busy train is becoming increasingly difficult at peak times as railways around the world face growing demand for their services. Building new lines is the obvious way of boosting capacity, but this is not always feasible. Instead, railways are looking to get more out of what they already have by running more trains on their existing network at shorter headways.

November 9, 2020 | Podcasts

Safety Doesn’t Happen By Accident, Part 2: Rail Group On Air Podcast

Sonia Bot from The BOT Consulting Group and Tony Zenga, CMTI Group make the case for system safety as the necessary discipline for railroads to embed as they move forward in innovating and advancing in the 21st century.

September 23, 2020 | Technology

Rail Vision and Knorr-Bremse trial remote shunting system

TECHNOLOGY start-up Rail Vision, Israel, in collaboration with Knorr-Bremse, has begun testing a new remote control shunting system on several shunting locomotives employed by Swiss freight operator SBB Cargo.

September 10, 2020 | Innovations

IRJ 2020 Innovations Showcase: Vossloh offers augmented reality rail testing with Soniq Rail Explorer

VOSSLOH’s Soniq Rail Explorer is a rail tester that offers high-performance inspection capabilities enhanced with augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

August 7, 2020 | Innovations

IRJ 2020 Innovations Showcase: “Elmer” brings AI to crack detection

IN response to the rail industry’s push for new autonomous safety technologies, along with the move towards preventative rather than interval-based maintenance, Sperry has developed an artificial intelligence tool, Elmer.

June 9, 2020 | Technology

AI technology improves Covid-19 protection for Infrabel staff

BELGIAN infrastructure manager Infrabel has turned to AI and its internal expertise to develop ways of keeping staff members safe during the coronavirus pandemic.

May 22, 2020 | Infrastructure

Bane Nor to develop AI-based track inspection system

NORWEGIAN infrastructure manager Bane Nor and the Norwegian Computing Centre have together received NKr 4m ($US 421,447) from the Research Council of Norway to conduct a trial using artificial intelligence (AI) to undertake infrastructure inspections.

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