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Meet this Digital Rail 2022 speaker: Richard Schofield
Richard Schofield is Group Infrastructure Director for MTR UK and will be taking to the stage at Digital Rail 2022. Watch this short video to find out more.
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Digitalisation
The rail industry is harnessing innovative digital solutions that can benefit the railway sector. A world in which trains are never late and rail travel is cheaper, safer and more efficient is on the horizon thanks to radical innovation and technology that has marked the next stage of rail’s digital revolution.
What are the trends and challenges in rail digitalisation and how is the industry moving forward to embrace and adopt solutions?
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Utilising digitalisation and innovation to monitor and maintain rolling stock
Peter Williams, Fleet and Performance Data Manager at Avanti West Coast, explains how their collaborative and dynamic approach to fleet monitoring and maintenance helps to increase the efficiency, reliability, and the availability of its trains.
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The Rail Data Marketplace: providing access to quality rail data and driving innovation
Jez Smith, Rail Data Marketplace (RDM) Programme Lead at the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), writes about the RDM – a service that will provide the tools and frameworks to simplify data sharing between data consumers and the rail industry, opening data up to innovators to develop new tools and services for…
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Global Railway Review Issue 5 2022
Packed full of exclusive content, including our InnoTrans 2022 review and Tomorrow's Train Stations Roundtable, plus features from: the Rail Delivery Group; MRS Logística; the CER; Avanti West Coast; Porterbrook; and much more!
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South Western Railway bringing new superfast Wi-Fi to train passengers
SWR customers will be able to enjoy superfast Wi-Fi on-board SWR services from Basingstoke to Earlsfield thanks to a new rail-5G project.
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The benefits of implementing BIM on the EOLE project
Léa Loucas, BIM Manager at SNCF Réseau, explains how Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been used within the EOLE railway infrastructure project, and how this tool has helped to identify ‘clashes’ and avoid expensive problems.
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Only two weeks to go: Digital Rail 2022
Fancy a taster of what you can expect when joining us at Twickenham Stadium, the home of England Rugby, for Digital Rail 2022? Then why not take a look at our latest video to see what you could be experiencing in just two weeks’s time!
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Q&A with Josef Doppelbauer, ERA: Trends and challenges in rail
In this video interview taken at InnoTrans 2022, Josef Doppelbauer, Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), spoke with Global Railway Review about ERA's mission, achievements in rail's digital transformation, the challenges facing rail’s workforce, and what the future of mobility looks like.
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Q&A with Khaled Alharbi, SAR: Saudi Arabia Railway’s growth plans
At InnoTrans 2022, Global Railway Review Editor, Craig Waters, sat down with Khaled Alharbi, Senior Vice President Operations at Saudi Arabia Railways (SAR), to find out more about SAR’s ambitious growth plans and strategic vision, and how rail is an enabler to transform the Kingdom into a leading global logistic…
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TSA issue new cyber-security requirements for U.S. passenger and freight railroad carriers
The new requirements seek to enhance U.S. railroad cyber-security resilience by focusing on performance-based measures.
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The case for a federated digital model of the rail system
Pierre Tane (UIC), Dr. Gilles Dessagne (SNCF Réseau), Dr. Bob Janssen (EULYNX) and Airy Magnien (UIC), discuss the evolution of technology in implementing conceptual models of the railway system and the multifaceted advantages they can generate.
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Digital stations: meeting passenger needs and net-zero goals
Hansen Chan, IP Product Marketing for Industries, Nokia, discusses the advent of digital stations and details how the Nokia digital station network blueprint can help operators overcome the network challenges that they are currently facing.
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Q&A with Alexander Burrows of BCRRE – Positivity in rail
At InnoTrans 2022, Alexander Burrows, Director of Enterprise & Innovation at the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE), spoke to Elliot Robinson, Global Railway Review’s Editorial Assistant, about the positive trends he sees in the rail industry right now and what the BCRRE are doing to help the…
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Bristol Temple Meads to host first UK trials for innovative passenger tech
A multi-million-pound programme will turn Bristol Temple Meads into the UK’s first ‘Station Innovation Zone’, trialling new technologies designed to upgrade passengers’ experience.
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Q&A with Jorge Rodríguez Julián, MainRail: optimising rail infrastructure maintenance
In this video interview taken at InnoTrans 2022, MainRail's CEO, Jorge Rodríguez Julián, explains how big data analysis can help infrastructure managers take control of their maintenance activities.
