Integrating the railway sector into the ‘digital economy’
As part of Global Railway Review’s Going Digital in Rail Week, Sharvind Appiah of Shawne Applebee provides a glimpse into the opportunities of digitalisation for the railway sector.
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The creation of railway digital twins through the convergence of IT and OT
As part of Global Railway Review’s Going Digital in Rail Week, Dr. Diego Galar, Professor of Condition Monitoring in the Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, explores how the adoption of IoT in railways and its use with OT platforms can enable the use of…
An interview with… Adrian Sutton, Managing Director, Vortex IoT
As part of Global Railway Review’s Going Digital in Rail Week, Adrian Sutton, Managing Director of Vortex IoT, provides details of the company’s fast-growing development, their data-driven solutions for Network Rail and how they aim to move forward with products that can deliver a step change to the rail sector.
An interview with… Marc Gispert, CEO, smart motors®
As part of Global Railway Review’s Going Digital in Rail Week, Marc Gispert, CEO of smart motors® shares the main objectives of his team which include developing the best asset life-cycle management policies, improving condition based maintenance (CBM) procedures and implementing the most adequate breakdown prediction methods.
An interview with… Fabrice Simonin, Head of Rail Business Unit, GiSmartware
As part of Global Railway Review’s Going Digital in Rail Week, Fabrice Simonin, Head of Rail Business Unit at GiSmartware, explains how the company’s NetGeo Rail solution is useful for infrastructure managers and how GiSmartware aim to build a brand-new platform for data processing and predictive maintenance.
An interview with… Dylan Kissane, Vice President Marketing, Cosmo Tech
As part of Global Railway Review’s Going Digital in Rail Week, Dylan Kissane, Vice President Marketing at Cosmo Tech shares insight into the technology company’s software solutions for the rail industry and how their platform can be deployed as part of a broader strategy of digital transformation.
Health and safety at Crossrail: A lasting legacy
When presented with the prospect of implementing a health and safety strategy for a major project such as Crossrail, where do you start? Delivering the resultant Elizabeth line – due to open in December 2018 – entailed the construction of a new railway that stretches more than 60 miles from…
Bogies & Wheelsets In-Depth Focus 2018
How can the railway sector utilise various monitoring techniques to ensure bogies and wheelsets are in top condition? How important is it to invest in wheelset research and what are the best methods to use for component inspection? What new ideas and concepts are there for the next generation of…
Evolution of the market and impact on international transport law
Liberalisation, digitalisation, multimodality, new business models – the railway landscape is changing; but international rail transport law currently lags behind these developments and the ever-greater gap between law and business reality is creating disruptive legal uncertainty. Cesare Brand, Secretary General of the International Rail Transport Committee (CIT), explains more.
XRL: Bridging the high‑speed gap between Hong Kong and Mainland China
Jeremy Long, Chief Executive Officer – European Business of MTR Corporation, provides a project overview of the 26km-long Hong Kong Section of the impressive Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL), including tunnel construction methods, details of the new Hong Kong West Kowloon Station and the overall benefits that will be…
Why do we need standards in the railway sector?
It is important that the rail sector performs in an efficient, safe and cost-effective manner, and having a user-friendly suite of standardised requirements in place is a really good way of providing consistent service to the customer. Simon Fletcher, Member of the UIC Board of Directors responsible for Standardisation and…
Track Systems, Engineering & Design In-Depth Focus 2018
The rail industry is constantly striving to improve network performance and capacity by deploying numerous activities, from investing in maintenance, upgrading existing lines, constructing new tracks, and understanding how the data collected from components can be used to an advantage. Read on to find out how some experts are solving…
The Connected Railway In-Depth Focus 2018
Innovative and intelligent solutions are greatly impacting the rail sector. The digital era has the potential to not only revolutionise rail transportation for passengers and freight, but also provide operators and infrastructure owners with a more connected and streamlined approach to how they run their services.
Issue 4 2018 – Digital version
In this issue: maximising condition monitoring systems for bogies & wheelsets, transforming the performance of track switches, and bridging the high-speed gap between Hong Kong & Mainland China
Perpetuum’s IoT and Big Data solutions to transform rail asset management
A world in which trains are never late and rail travel is cheaper, safer and more efficient may be only just beyond the horizon thanks to radical innovation and technology that has marked the next stage of the ‘digital revolution’.
