For the assessment of railway tracks, infrastructure managers use various measurement and evaluation methods, such as track-recording vehicles, sensors and manual inspections, providing them with information on condition with varying degrees of data quality and quantity...
Deutsche Bahn successfully tested cable intrusion detection combined with initiated actions, like drones, to secure widespread, heavy to secure, infrastructure. Next step is to finalize the proof of concept and integrate the solution in the daily operation.
Conventional technologies cannot accurately detect the location of the. In collaboration with Frauscher Sensonic, ÖBB has conducted research on short-circuit localisation.
Deutsche Bahn successfully tested timely passenger announcement. The first test results exceeded the requirement specification for automated announcement systems.
On 21 October 2020, the Austrian Transport Science Society (ÖVG) invited to a conference at which current findings on the use of "Fibre optic sensor technology in railways" were presented.