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In-Depth Focus: Rail Asset Management
As rail networks modernise and expand, the role of intelligent, resilient asset management has become more vital than ever.
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Fibre to the Machine: Lighting up the road to smart urban rail
With digital transformations playing an ever-increasing role in improving business operations and public services, Huawei explain how their FTTM solution can play a vital part in fostering digital transformations throughout the rail industry.
The importance of Rail Enforcement Officers on post-pandemic railways
In support of National Careers Week, Tina Towner, Rail Enforcement Officer at Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), explains the role of a Rail Enforcement Officer and details why the role is more important now than ever before.
The steady train to automation
Karsten Oberle, Head of Rail at Nokia, explores the futuristic implications that increasing automation in the rail industry can offer and explains what benefits rail operators can expect by fully embracing automation.
Govia Thameslink Railway’s driver training simulation programmes
In support of National Careers Week, Tim Wells, Operations Simulator Manager at Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), explains the vital role that training simulation programmes have in establishing confidence for both newer and experienced drivers, as well as the impact these simulations have in creating a safer, happier work environment.
Govia Thameslink Railway’s mission to improve rail travel for all
In support of National Careers Week, Sophie Court, Accessibility Improvement Manager at Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), explains her role and how she helps play a part in GTR’s mission to improve the level of service for passengers requiring extra assistance when travelling.
The potential of advanced train navigation
In this interview for Global Railway Review, Aaron Whittemore, Director of Product and Strategy at Humatics, delves into the benefits that ultra-wideband technology can offer railways and what the industry can gain from deploying Humatics’ systems.
Innovative logistics: Stacking small containers for optimised loading
Sachinder Mohan Sharma, Group General Manager/Mechanical at the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL), examines how smaller sized freight containers can optimise loading times and logistic costs for train operations throughout India.
The impact of open access competition on high-speed rail in Europe
Andrea Giuricin, Transport Economist for University of Milan Bicocca, explores the development of open access competition in high-speed rail throughout Europe and how it has impacted the market.
Interoperability: The key to increasing competitiveness of railways
Pio Guido, Head of Railway Systems Department at the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), explains why interoperability is a fundamental aspect to increasing competitiveness of railways, and one of the key areas of responsibility for the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA).
DAC: Ensuring rail freight can play the role it deserves in Europe
Heiko Fischer, President of the International Union of Wagon Keepers (UIP), explores why and how digital automatic coupling (DAC) is an imperative solution to assist Europe, and the rail freight sector, in achieving Green Deal objectives.
Switzerland and 400 UHC® HSH®: Customer benefits by improving material design
Colleagues Julian Wiedorn and Oliver Fuchs from voestalpine Rail Technology, a company of voestalpine Railway Systems Group, explain how the geographical typography of Switzerland has challenged the manufacturer to develop the 400 UHC® HSH® rail grade, offering a solution to the problems of rail deterioration caused by high loads within…
“Sustainability as the backbone of our business”
During his first year as CEO, Anders Lindberg has led Dellner to take significant steps towards the vision of being the number one global supplier of Train Connection Systems and Services. Now Dellner is ready to leap into the fossil-free transformation.
In-Depth Focus: Electrification & Power Supply
The authors in this In-Depth Focus provide an insight into the solutions for producing sustainable, climate-friendly mobility in Switzerland, and the progress of implementing electrification on the Rail Baltica transport corridor.
2022: A promising year for Brazilian rail freight
Fernando Paes, Executive Director of Brazil’s National Association of Railway Transport (ANTF), explains that major investments throughout the country’s network will realise a significant, and welcomed, expansion in freight capacity, capable of meeting both current, and future, sector demands.
Five actions to keep the U.S. rail revolution on track
Jim Mathews, President & CEO, Rail Passengers Association, writes how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has the potential to revolutionise passenger rail in the U.S., calling on the industry to act to ensure this law realises the transformational investment it’s been promised.
