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March 9, 2023 | Financial

Alstom-Bombardier integration
enters home straight

Combating the energy crisis, stabilising the supply chain, and continuing to integrate Bombardier Transportation are all top of the agenda for Alstom in 2023, as president and CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge reveals in an exclusive interview with Kevin Smith.

January 30, 2023 | Infrastructure

Building a Global Centre of Rail Excellence

A testing and innovation centre that aims to provide a showcase for Britain’s rail industry and create the country’s first net-zero railway is now under construction in South Wales. Robert Preston spoke to Global Centre of Rail Excellence chief executive, Simon Jones.

September 15, 2022 | Technology

IRJ InnoTrans 2022 preview; A - E

The first part of IRJ's preview of this month's exhibition at Messe Berlin.

July 20, 2022 | Passenger

ExtenSive on track for InnoTrans debut

ExtenSive, a Shift2Rail project aiming to leverage IT to make the public transport experience more attractive, will have its first public outing in Berlin in the autumn. Robert Preston talked to the project team.

April 29, 2021 | Commuter Rail

Improving punctuality through junction rescheduling

Valentina Pozzoli and François Ramond, with SNCF’s Innovation and Research Department, explain how a new decision support system has improved the real-time management of junctions in the Paris area.

December 23, 2020 | Employment

Skills for the next-generation rail industry

Philippe Citroën, director general of the European Rail Industry Association (Unife), highlights work underway to boost the European rail industry’s skill base as the sector strives to become the backbone of a sustainable transport network.

September 7, 2020 | Innovations

IRJ 2020 Innovations Showcase: LEM voltage sensors bring versatility in a small package

LEM has developed the DVC 1000 series of compact panel-mounted voltage sensors for insulated nominal voltage measurements in rail traction and industrial applications.

January 9, 2020 | Technology

RTRI prepares Research 2025 strategy

Dr Norimichi Kumagai, president, Railway Technical Research Institute, talks to Kevin Smith.

March 20, 2019 | Technology

A new frontier in railway innovation

As railways push ahead with digitalisation, more and more are engaging and implementing solutions from a new form of supplier: the tech start-up. This is changing the railway-supplier relationship and altering the industry’s wider approach to innovation, as Kevin Smith discovers.

January 15, 2019 | Europe

DB’s digitalisation plans take shape

Sabina Jeschke, German Rail (DB) board member for digitalisation and technology, speaks with Kevin Smith.

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