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Project progress in highly automated shunting

In automated driving on the railways, the projects around shunting are the most advanced - here the conditions are significantly easier than in public modes.

28. April 2022

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Project on Predictive Maintenance of Passenger Trains

On 22 August, the official kick-off for the project ESPEK - Recognition of Damage Patterns on Passenger Trains and Evaluation of Confidence for the Selection of Robust Features for "Predictive Maintenance" took place.

30. August 2023

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Project for rail head conditioning with AI

Bernmobil, PROSE and LeanBI are jointly developing a system for on-demand rail head conditioning of trams.

10. Mai 2023

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Procedure for the early detection of cyber attacks on railways

The cooperation project "Resilient Rail - Resilient Sensor Infrastructure in the Railway Sector" at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten (Austria), together with Frauscher Sensortechnik, investigated the resilience of systems in the railway sector.

12. Juli 2023

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Problems with ETCS

After several trains were unable to run on the new Wendlingen - Ulm line due to problems with the ETCS system, DB has now admitted to the problems.

13. September 2023

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"Priorities lie in other fields"

The spirit of optimism of 2018 has given way to difficult global conditions, but also to the sobering realities of politics and network operators in Germany, states publishing director Manuel Bosch two and a half weeks before InnoTrans.

31. August 2022

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Premises for the success of DSD

In October, nine transport associations and Deutsche Bahn (DB) presented a key points paper "Premises for a successful rollout of Digital Rail Germany (DSD)".

15. Oktober 2021

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Praise for the European standard ATO over ETCS

The technical basis for highly and fully automated rail operations ATO over ETCS developed by the European research project Shift2Rail works, is robust and suitable for practical use.

11. Januar 2023

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Point maintenance: New possibilities in condition monitoring

Point machines are devices used to control the movement of points. Their main function is to align the points or rails of a turnout to the desired position so that trains can continue on a particular track or be diverted to another track.

09. Oktober 2023

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Pilz and Pintsch: framework supply agreement for development partnership

The automation company Pilz and the expert for safe rail infrastructure Pintsch are jointly developing innovative control and signalling technology for the digitalisation of the railway.

26. Juli 2023

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Passenger service of digital S-Bahn Hamburg to start later

The passenger deployment of the four digital S-Bahn trains on Hamburg's S-Bahn is currently planned for the month of March. This was announced by Deutsche Bahn upon request.

15. Februar 2022

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Paris: metro line 4 fully automated

After a test run without passengers that began in June, the automation of Paris' metro line 4 is now complete.

14. September 2022

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"Pace, pace, pace"

Helping to shape the change is definitely positive, thinks Jennifer Schacha.

02. Februar 2023

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Oslo Metro orders CBTC system from Siemens Mobility

Siemens Mobility has been awarded a contract by operator Sporveien AS for a CBTC system for Oslo Metro.

21. Dezember 2021

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Oslo Metro: CBTC with GoA2 via public network

Oslo has become the first city in the world to decide to control its metro via the public mobile network. This decision is based on a determination by the Oslo City Council in 2019 to replace the signalling system based on conventional relay technology with a signalling system using CBTC technology.

20. Januar 2022