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Doors and movable door steps are perceived as the most failure-prone systems in rail vehicles. Here Gabriel Haller, Technical Director and Executive Manager of Rail Tec Arsenal, explains the importance of testing these components – especially under winter conditions – to ensure all-round reliability of rail vehicles, which in turn…
Despite the many great advancements that have taken place in railway signalling systems, some concerns still exist – notably regarding SIL 4 (Safety Integrity Level) train locationing. Giuseppe Fazio, Mauro Giaconi, Salvatore Vetruccio, Matteo Telesca and Alessandro Giuliani from the Italian rail community highlight the main issues related to current…
GHH-BONATRANS, discusses how their products can help the rail-bound industry move forward and what’s in store for the group in the future...
With growing rail passenger numbers across Europe, Libor Lochman, Executive Director and Ilja Lorenzo Volpi, Head of Policy at the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) both explore what the organisation’s members should do to ensure passengers are satisfied and how important, really, is the ‘passenger experience’?
In order to support the timetable planners at Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in preparation of their daily timetables or construction site timetables, SBB IT has developed a special tool. The tool utilises genetic algorithms – a process borrowed from artificial intelligence – to generate new timetables, all of which are…
KTX – South Korea’s high-speed train service – has doubled its number of daily passengers since launching 13 years ago. Here, Juhyung Lee, Senior Advisor at the UIC and Secondee from Korail (the Korea Railroad Corporation), explores the different operational elements of the high-speed service and how its continued development…
Spacious, speedy and economical, 58 of Stadler Rail’s newest generation EMUs will debut on Switzerland’s largest regional railway and capital costs are much lower than expected. Edgar Schenk, Rolling Stock Project Manager at BLS, explains more about the rolling stock order placed and the key features of the trains.
Since Japan’s first railway line between Shimbashi and Yokohama opened on 14 October 1872, Japanese National Railways (JNR) has been expanding the railway network and improving the technology it uses. For Global Railway Review, Kenzo Fujita, Senior Advisor at the UIC and Secondee from East Japan Railway Company (JR East),…
Jörg Leichtfried, Austrian Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology, explains why it is important and worthwhile to invest properly in the country’s railway network.
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Philippe Citroën, Director General of UNIFE – the Association of the European Rail Industry – discusses recent developments within the sector and considers the impact passenger demand will have on operations in the future.
Railway systems have complex technologies, with a wide range of human actors, organisations and technical solutions. To control such complexity, a viable solution is to apply intelligent computerised systems. Here Professors Diego Galar, Uday Kumar and Ramin Karim from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, explain the possibilities of big data…
The complex infrastructure that allows passengers to get from a to b must perform efficiently and safely. Consequently, developing networks, allocating capacity, constructing new high-speed lines and moving towards predictive maintenance are all crucial pieces of the puzzle…
As the railway sector moves forward with digitalisation, there is a greater need than ever to utilise innovative solutions to help improve the lifecycle of bogies and wheelsets by monitoring their performance in real-time. The result will be more reliable, durable and eco-friendly bogies and wheelsets…
The first ever issue of Global Railway Review features exclusive articles on Digitalisation, Rolling Stock, High-Speed, Timetabling, Signalling & Telecommunications,Infrastructure, Bogies & Wheelsets, and much more…
Since 2006 Trasse Schweiz has been the independent essential functions body responsible for allocating train paths on 95 per cent of the Swiss standard gauge network. The respect shown by the users of the network prompted the Swiss government not only to base the further organisational development of path allocation…
