by blaettler_redaktion | Mar 26, 2022 | Events, Freight Transport Industry, Innovation
On 25 March 2022, the FOT, the SBB, the VAP and the VöV provided information about the test phase and the far-reaching advantages resulting from the Digital Automatic Coupling (DAK). The message was that the DAK lays the foundations for digitisation and thus for a...
mehr
by blaettler_redaktion | Jan 17, 2022 | Events, Innovation
PRESS RELEASE OF VPI Hamburg The gamechanger for rail freight transport is up and running! 1,250 participants found out about the status of the DAC introduction at the digital event on 11 January 2022. “Rolling out the DAC across Europe is a thick board. We have...
mehr
by blaettler_redaktion | Oct 13, 2021 | Events, Innovation
Next Stop: Container Terminal Basel Wolf On 28 September 2021, the signatories publicly presented the declaration of intent for the automation of Swiss rail freight transport. The occasion was a stop of the “Connecting Europe Express” – a special...
mehr
by blaettler_redaktion | Sep 30, 2021 | Events, Innovation, Politics
Together with the Federal Office of Transport (FOT) and the Association of Public Transport (VÖV), the VAP Association of the Loading Industry has signed a declaration of intent to automate Swiss rail freight transport. The long-term major project...
mehr
by blaettler_redaktion | Sep 8, 2021 | Events, Interoperability, Politics
Exactly 25 years after the signing of the “Treaty of Lugano”, the German railway station in the Swiss border metropolis of Basel took stock. For the VAP, in addition to the expansion of the line on the right bank of the Rhine, that of the line on the...
mehr
by blaettler_redaktion | Apr 16, 2021 | Events, Member, Operations, Sustainability
A considerable potential for more sustainability in rail freight transport lies in noise abatement. Noise must be further reduced so that an increase in rail freight transport can be realised without significant increases in noise. This will then...
mehr
