Investments secure the future of railways
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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Responding to innovation for future success
10 August 2017 | By
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.
Big data in railway operations and maintenance
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 future of mobile point of sale in rail
For Global Railway Review, Simon Pont, CEO of ECR Retail Systems, discusses the changes to payment technologies, specifically with mobile point of sale systems, and how the rail industry can fully utilise these new technologies to not only enhance passenger experience but to also drive business growth.
Kenya’s rail sector and data needs
In part two of our features on Kenya’s railways, James Gachanja, Policy Analyst for Infrastructure and Services, goes into depth about the history of the rail sector in Kenya, the development of the Standard Gauge Railway, and the importance of big data in the industry.
Infrastructure In-Depth Focus 2017
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…
Bogies & Wheelsets In-Depth Focus 2017
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…
Issue #4 2017 – Digital version
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…
Kenya Railway’s Standard Gauge Railway
27 July 2017 | By
In light of recent reports that the first new railway line for over a century in Kenya, the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), has had to justify its relatively high costs*, Global Railway Review discusses the project in a little more detail…
Trasse Schweiz: A key player in the Swiss rail sector
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…
Researching the significance of ballast in track degradation
Our regular contributor, Graham Ellis, discusses track degradation and some of the research that is currently being undertaken to understand the significance ballast when it comes to track wear.
Rail milling solutions to improve costs and performance
Increased passenger numbers are currently placing huge demands on Irish Rail to improve train speed performance. LINMAG’s Rodney Kerr, Business Development Manager UK and Ireland, explains how the operator is taking advantage of LINMAG’s rail milling services in conjunction with the latest survey and modelling techniques to improve costs as…
High Speed 2: The transformative potential for Britain
Following years of debate and approval processes, 2017 is the year High Speed 2 (HS2) properly gets underway in the UK. Here, Iain Anderson, Director of High Speed Rail Industry Leaders, explains how this significant large-scale infrastructure project will not only bring increased capacity on the UK rail network, but…
Real data for bogie design and validation
New methodology developed by CETEST enables the identification of bogie associated modal parameters with more accurate results than commonly employed methods, together with more simple performance. Lara Erviti, Test Engineer, explains more.
The influence of the whole lifecycle cost and digitalisation on the design of running gear
Modern running gear has to fulfil a multitude of requirements. As well as the diverse functional, operational and relevant environmental requirements, operational ruggedness combined with high availability is also expected. Thomas Graetz, Head of Bogies at Siemens, writes that aside from the technical aspects, the commercial influence of this key…
