by blaettler_redaktion | Dec 15, 2023 | Financing, Innovation, Politics
Without digital automatic coupling (DAC) there is no digitalisation and without digitalisation there is no competitiveness. This is how the modernisation of the rail freight sector could be described. However, it’s not quite that simple....
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by cargorail-admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Freight Transport Industry
On 10 August 2023, a freight train derailed in the Gotthard Base Tunnel. A few minutes before entering the tunnel through the south portal, the train was inspected by automatic wayside train monitoring systems (WTMSs). According to the monitoring...
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by blaettler_redaktion | Jun 28, 2023 | Freight Transport Industry, Innovation, Politics
We at the VAP have been working more intensively on the topic of data ecosystems for some time. In 2022, we initiated the development of a data platform at the Coordination Unit for Sustainable Mobility (KOMO) and are pushing ahead with the further...
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by blaettler_redaktion | Jun 27, 2023 | Events, Freight Transport Industry, Innovation
What it’s all about: UIP Keepers’ Summit in Nice Customer focus and transformation for rail freight in Europe David Zindo new President of the UIP The International Union of Wagon Keepers (UIP) in collaboration with its French...
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by blaettler_redaktion | Jun 15, 2023 | Freight Transport Industry, Innovation
In this tribute, you will learn how rail freight transport in Switzerland is moving persistently towards the future. For many years, innovation was a foreign word for the «brown wagons». But this era is passé. The freight railways are ready for the age...
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