Naoyuki Ota, director of the Disaster Prevention Technology Division of Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute, explains how systems are being designed to predict extreme weather events to avoid disruption to train services and improve safety.
Boosting rail’s resilience to extreme weather
Naoyuki Ota, director of the Disaster Prevention Technology Division of Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute, explains how systems are being designed to predict extreme weather events to avoid disruption to train services and improve safety.
RTRI is moving towards tracking extreme weather events in real time, instead of relying on trackside measurements. Photo: Shutterstock/dreamnikon
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