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May 5, 2020

Our Executive Director Carlo Borghini will participate to the European Railway Clusters Initiative’s (ERCI) Freight and Logistics Taskforce Webinar. The online event will take place on 10 June at 10.00 CET and will gather rail experts from across the field. The event will investigate how to promote a shift towards multimodality in freight and analyse the implications and strategy to ensure a better use of rail in the logistics chain. Mr Borghini will discuss how…

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April 27, 2020

The cross-sectoral cooperation within the Shift2Rail programme of partners from Railway Undertakings, suppliers, academia and EU member states has already borne first results. Distributed traction, new simulation tools, and digital automatic coupler "Distributed traction" has been successfully tested in freight traffic. A newly created simulation tool for timetable analysis provides reliable punctuality forecasts within less than a minute in the event of a disruption. By using innovative measurement technology for trains, DB Netz has been…

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April 27, 2020

The InnoTrans trade fair, the biggest event in the rail industry calendar, will now take place on 27-30 April 2021, instead of in September 2020. InnoTrans was originally to have been held on September 22-25 in Berlin. However, as part of measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, the Berlin senate issued a decree on April 21 banning events with more than 5,000 people from taking place in the city before 24 October 2020. InnoTrans 2018…

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April 24, 2020

We are delighted to introduce the new Shift2Rail webinar series, bringing you Shift2Rail innovations from the comfort of your home! Curious to learn more about multimodal journey planning, offer building, booking, issuing, ticketing, validation and location-based experiences? Join us to see all this and more in our Shift2Rail webinar series on seamless door-to-door travel tools! We’ve set-up two exciting webinars for you to demonstrate the current results of key projects working under Shift2Rail’s Innovation Programme 4, dedicated to…

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April 22, 2020

The InnoTrans trade fair, the biggest event in the rail industry calendar, will no longer take place in September 2020. InnoTrans was to have been held on September 22-25 in Berlin. However, as part of measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, the Berlin senate issued a decree on April 21 banning events with more than 5,000 people from taking place in the city before 24 October 2020. InnoTrans 2018 attracted 3,062 exhibitors from 61 countries,…

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April 21, 2020

What are we looking for? In accordance with its Annual Work Plan 2020[1], Shift2Rail intends to launch the “Shift2Rail Train ID Prize”.  The Prize shall achieve through Europe a unique representation of the train and path objects. To this aim, the implementation of efficient algorithms that generate a single Train ID is needed. In particular, this should be associated to commercial trains in synergy with the use of Train ID in the framework of TAF…

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