Approaching the Localisation Challenge for Rail Operators

The future railway network requires a higher capacity to accommodate the growing need for public transportation. To achieve this goal, Deutsche Bahn, within the scope of the sector initiative “Digital Rail for Germany”, aims to use cutting-edge technology in order to increase capacity and reliability of the existing railway network, reduce operating costs and CO2 emissions and allow a higher level of flexibility in railway scheduling. Two key elements of overcoming the challenge are precise localisation and train-front object detection.

To assess emerging technologies in these and other fields Deutsche Bahn has created the ‘advanced TrainLab‘. This allows new technology companies to be brought in and enables continuous studies in real case scenarios for railway applications.