Robotics and maintenance of trains
How does digitalization and robotics change the maintenance of trains at Deutsche Bahn? See the interesting post of Dr. Daniela Gerd tom Markotten:
How does digitalization and robotics change the maintenance of trains at Deutsche Bahn? See the interesting post of Dr. Daniela Gerd tom Markotten:
Automatic balise installation – awesome! Especially if you imagine that – depending on the conditions – you have to install around 50 balises in the platform area in a station. Installation robot to accelerate ETCS roll-out | News | Railway Gazette International
Sometimes a small piece of metal makes the difference between being off track or being on track… 😉 Post | LinkedIn
Happy new railway year from the new line between Stuttgart and Ulm! I’ve been waiting for this moment for years! Yesterday was the first day with the new timetable – therefore all railroaders celebrate a “happy new railway year”! I’ve used the chance yesterday to travel on the new line between Stuttgart and Ulm, were…
Sustainable solutions like this will be necessary especially for countries with a currently high amount of fossil energy sources. Good to see this development into the right direction! PKP Power Engineering issues tender for hydrogen-based energy storage components – International Railway Journal
How complicated can it be to book a train journey through Europe? The following clip of the German political satire magazin “Extra 3” perfectly shows the reality with booking international railway tickets involving multiple train operators. My question here is: If we want to motivate people to choose the train over the plane, why is…
I’m sharing this post due to the high temperatures we’re facing these days in Germany. The impressive footage shows the effects of heat to rails and what this means for operation. Railway operators are already experimenting with painting rails with white color to reduce the heat impact. I think this issue gets more and more…