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October 12, 2020 | Technology

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.

October 5, 2020 | Freight

European operators urge policymakers to prioritise rail freight in Covid-19 recovery

The European Rail Freight Association held a webinar on the priorities for rail freight beyond Covid-19 on September 15. With some rail freight operators now in a precarious position due to the sudden drop in revenue, there is a fear that a lot of the gains made could be lost, as David Briginshaw reports.

September 22, 2020 | Passenger

Iconic project makes progress despite growing costs

Despite stiff opposition, funding disputes, and delays, German Rail’s controversial and ambitious Stuttgart 21 project is now making steady progress. As David Briginshaw and Anitra Green report, the project will radically alter the rail network in the Stuttgart area when it is finally completed in 2025.

September 17, 2020 | Freight

Learning the lessons of Rastatt

Developed following the Rastatt incident in 2017, the ICM Handbook is designed to improve responses to disruptions along the Rail Freight Corridor network. Christiane Warnecke and Alessandro Fattorini from the Rhine-Alpine Rail Freight Corridor talk with David Burroughs about how guidelines from the handbook and other lessons learned from the Rastatt incident were put into practice following an accident at Auggen in April.

September 15, 2020 | Passenger

Germany’s open-access operator revamped and ready to grow

FlixTrain, Germany largest open-access long-distance passenger operator, started to reintroduce train services on July 23 following a four-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. As FlixTrain’s managing director, Fabian Stenger, explains to David Briginshaw, passengers are returning, and the company intends to resume its expansion plans next year.

September 10, 2020 | Technology

Preparing to face the digital threat

Increasing digitalisation opens the railway up to a broad range of cybersecurity threats, both known and unknown. David Burroughs looks at the dangers to the industry, how it is preparing and what else is required to protect suppliers, operators and customers in this digital era.

September 8, 2020 | Financial

Covid-19 hurts global rail market growth

SCI Verkehr expects the global rail market to reach €213.2bn by 2024 according to its latest Worldwide Market for Railway Industries study published this month. As CEO Maria Leenen and senior consultant Andreas Wolf explain, while the Covid-19 pandemic is causing turmoil in the rail industry, environmental protection is predicted to be the main driver of future growth.

September 8, 2020 | Passenger

Pandemic pushes German operators to the brink

Germany’s Covid-19 lockdown resulted in passenger rail use falling to around 10% of normal levels in much of March and April, causing economic devastation to the sector. As operators embark on their respective recoveries, Kevin Smith analyses the impact of the crisis and its implications for the future of the market.

August 20, 2020 | Track

Big data optimises wheel-rail interface

A new wheel force and wheel form data installation on the Vienna - St Pölten high-speed line is the latest step by Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and its partners to optimise the vital wheel-rail interface.

August 17, 2020 | High-speed

Pandemic fails to slow China’s high-speed network expansion

China is continuing the development of the world’s most extensive high-speed network at a breakneck pace. David Burroughs looks at the lines that have opened as the country begins to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, and the sections nearing completion.

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