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Internet of Trains 2.0 – Getting more return from your rail assets
9 May 2017 | By Siemens AG
This webinar discussed how rail operators and maintainers can use data to improve their businesses and generate more return from their assets.
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Passenger Information Systems (PIS)
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IT2Rail: Transforming Real-Time Passenger Information and ticketing
Today’s rail transport in Europe is not attractive enough to customers, especially for the new ‘connected’ generation. In particular, rail lacks multi-modal and door-to-door travel offers and there is limited interoperability between booking systems. A central objective of Shift2Rail (a Joint Undertaking – a form of Public-Private Partnership within Horizon…
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Virgin Trains and RNIB install tactile station maps for visually impaired travellers
28 April 2016 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Global Railway Review
Virgin Trains and the RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) have worked together to create tactile station maps for visually impaired travellers on the east coast route between Berwick and Peterborough.
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Cheshire to benefit from £260K Customer Information Screens
11 January 2016 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Global Railway Review
Northern Rail has announced it is to invest £264,000 in new Customer Information Screens (CIS) at stations across Cheshire.
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From split-flap display to multimedia train information system
6 August 2015 | By Lukas Spengeler, Project Manager at SBB
Who isn’t familiar with the big blue display information boards in Switzerland’s main train stations? At the time of the display installation more than 25 years ago, these units were the leading technology. Printed panels showed the train information for departing trains. Updating of the information caused the panels to…
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High-tech solution for ÖBB operation control
21 July 2009 | By Herwig Wiltberger, Member of the Board, ÖBB-Infrastruktur Betrieb and August Zierl, Head of ÖBB’s Business Unit ‘Engineering Services’, ÖBB-Infrastruktur Bau AG
ÖBB-Infrastruktur Betrieb AG is a modern and customer-oriented infrastructure operator allowing the 22 railway undertakings authorised to operate in Austria access to ÖBB's approximately 5,700km-long railway network. To this end, ÖBB's operation control strategy plays a decisive role. ÖBB heralded a new high-tech era with the launch of the operation…
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Railroad simulation using OpenTrack
6 June 2007 | By Daniel Huerlimann, CEO, OpenTrack Railway Technology Ltd and Andrew Nash, Researcher, ETH IVT
OpenTrack is a user-friendly railroad network simulation program. It is a microscopic model that simulates rail system operations based on user defined train, infrastructure and timetable databases. OpenTrack can be used to evaluate and test infrastructure plans and operating schedules in order to optimise network and timetable design. It can…
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Transforming travel
3 April 2007 | By Mr. Ian Benger, Projects Manager, First TransPennine Express
A partnership between FirstGroup plc and Keolis was awarded the franchise to provide inter-city and inter-urban passenger rail services to major cities and towns across the north of England, with also the management of 30 stations from 1 February 2004.