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Ahead of Global Railway Review’s webinar in association with Prover Technology AB on Tuesday 26 September 2017, we put some questions to Jesper Carlström, VP Project Delivery and one of the speakers of the webinar – to understand more about the topics to be covered.
Advances to rail signalling and train control systems will make international rail transport more competitive and attractive. But implementing strategies and understanding new digital solutions must be addressed before improvements can be realised...
For Global Railway Review, Guilherme Quintella, Chairman of UIC Latin America, covers details of recent rail developments in southern America as the region begins to unlock the potential of its railways.
In September 2016 the European Union Agency for Railways launched the Safety Alert IT tool, often referred to as SAIT1. Its aim is to support better management of the risk of future rail accidents. Phillip Siomka from the European Union Agency for Railways Safety Unit provides more information.
On 23 August 2017, Global Railway Review hosted a webinar in association with Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), which showcased their innovative Rail Control System (RCS) and the benefits it can offer to other infrastructure managers. Here Daniel Achermann, Senior Expert on Traffic Management Systems at SBB, responds to some key…
Dellner is a Swedish company with more than 75 years of experience in the rail industry. Here Gabriel Hornemann, Global Sales and Marketing Director of Dellner Service, explains the company’s structure and how it has expanded over recent years.
Jenny Gejke, Head of Digital Channel Development at SJ AB, goes into detail about the operator's busy spring whereby the company unveiled many digital initiatives from mobile payments, microchip implant ticketing and helpful new features via the operator’s app...
Established as part of the Norwegian railway reform, Norske tog AS is now the owner of almost all passenger rolling stock in Norway, apart from the Flytoget airport express trains and some rolling stock used on the Flåm Line tourist line. Norske tog AS has a long-term vision to refurbish…
Diego Galar, Professor of Condition Monitoring in the Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, explores some key points concerning the use of IoT and big data in the rail sector.
Issue 5 of Global Railway Review features articles on the Internet of Things in the railway industry, infrastructure investment in South America, the development of high-speed rail in California, and much more...
Tim Sander, a Director in BDRC’s ‘On the Move’ division, discusses the importance of a train operating company’s brand and how decisive this is in regards to passenger satisfaction and experience...
Glyn Pierce-Jones, Group Managing Director at Trolex Group Ltd argues that with innovative passenger-focussed transportation services like Uber generating 6.5 billion dollars in 2016 and MaaS becoming the ‘Netflix of Transportation’ isn’t it time that the railway sector starts to invest more in to technology to improve passenger experience?
1 September 2017 | By Christine Kraft, Project Manager of ETCS at DB Kommunikationstechnik
For Global Railway Review, Christine Kraft, Project Manager of ETCS at DB Kommunikationstechnik, talks us through the GSM-R system and the future of telecommunication and digitalisation in the rail sector.
Global Railway Review’s regular contributor, Graham Ellis, tackles the old and the new – with news of a newly-built steam locomotive attempting to reach the speeds necessary to work on today’s railway lines, as well improving and expanding old rail lines in the Baltics to make travelling and shipping goods…
Vincent Vu, Director of Institutional Relations and Asia-Pacific Coordinator at the UIC discusses the broad reach of the UIC and the importance of supporting the rail industry in the Asia-Pacific region.
