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DAC Industry Days 2024 – Hands-on exchange between operators and industry partners
The development of the Digital Automatic Coupler is a joint activity of European Railway Undertakings, Infrastructure Managers and the Railway Industry. As already shown in the past, it is very helpful to exchange about ideas and issues at regular intervals on the asset itself, on the ...
Strong and successful FP5-TRANS4M-R participation to the 2024 SmartRaCon Scientific Seminar
The Smart Rail Control Consortium (SmartRaCon) consists of the members CEIT (ES), DLR (GE), RISE (SE), SINTEF (NO), University Gustave Eiffel – UGE (FR) and Road and Bridge Research Institute- IBDiM (PL). With the goal of hosting an annual scientific seminar on the research and innovations ...
FP5-TRANS4M-R InnoTrans 2024 Recap
RECAP DAC DAY powered by Knorr-Bremse und PROSE
The DAC DAY powered by Knorr-Bremse and PROSE on 27.06.2024 was a complete success thanks to the great commitment of the participants, speakers and organisers! The views on the future & transformation of rail freight transport of the various stakeholders were an elementary part of the ...
PRESS RELEASE: E-Coupler design decision taken in FP5-TRANS4M-R
The FP5-TRANS4M-R Steering Committee has adopted a decision on the selection of the future Europe-wide standard Electrical Coupler (E-Coupler) design for the Digital Automatic Coupler (DAC) for European rail freight transport end of February 2024. The decision has been endorsed by the European ...
Announcement: DAC Day in Switzerland 27.06.2024
DAC DAY - powered by Knorr-Bremse und PROSE - an industry initiative
Digital automatic coupler (DAC) is a key element for sustainable rail freight transport that is coordinated across European borders.
Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems Schweiz AG and PROSE AG are initiating the ‘DAC DAY’ on 27 ...
UPDATE Video Available! Progress of DAC and Seamless rail freight technology development shown in Vienna
UPDATE:
The video of the event is now online!
Watch the video on YouTube
During the midterm event of Europe’s Rail Flagship Project 5 TRANS4M-R all project partners gathered at ÖBB Headquarter to share the project’s progress with the public. Europe’s Rail funded Flagship Project 5 (FP5) ...
Joint position paper on DAC in Europe signed by Austrian, German and Swiss Ministers for Transport
Last week the Austrian Minister Leonore Gewessler, German Minister Volker Wissing and Swiss Minister Albert Rösti have signed the joint position paper "Die DAK kommt" (engl.: The DAC is coming!) All three ministers highlight the importance of Digital Automatic Coupling Rail Freight to achieve ...
DB Cargo representing FP5-TRANS4M-R at Transport Research Arena 2024 in Dublin
Today, Patrick Seessle, the Flagship Project Coordinator of FP5-TRANS4M-R, presented the paper “Digital Automatic Coupling as an Enabler for Rail Freight Innovations” at the Transport Research Arena 2024 in Dublin. In this paper the DAC and its components are described and how the DAC ...
Collaboration between Europe‘s Rail projects on Multimodal Logistic topics
At Multimodal Logistics Taskforce, a conference on Tuesday 19th of March in Barcelona FP5-TRANS4M-R joined forces with the ESEP4Freight, another EU-Rail funded project on digital rail freight solutions.
Felix Hildebrandt from HACON introduced the Seamless Rail Freight objectives inside ...
FP5-TRANS4M-R Video available on YouTube
Our project video is now available on YouTube!
The video explains our motivation, our goals and our approach towards the transformation of Europe's Rail Freight.
Both our clusters Full Digital Freight Train and Seamless Freight are introduced and the main technical enablers are ...
Video of the Swedish Demo Train Available
The Demo Train "Swedish Steel" (Work Package 16) is currently being prepared to run from Lulea to Borlänge. In the start it will be equipped with four DACs in the beginning and the number of DACs will be increased over the time of our project FP5-TRANS4M-R.
Check out the latest video by ...
Webinar on FP5-TRANS4M-R progress by Rail Sweden on 14/02/2024
Our partner Trafikverket and its affiliated entity Rail Sweden will host a webinar on the progress of FP5-TRANS4M-R. The enabler function of the DAC will be highlighted and what can be expected for the Nordic countries.
Trail to Rail Lunch Webinar
Wednesday 14.02.2024
12:00 to ...
Article about interoperable automation in ZEVrail Special Issue Graz 2023
Steffen Jass from Knorr-Bremse gave a presentation on the challenges of interoperable automation in Freight Rail Sector at the 48th Conference Modern Rolling Stock ("Schienenfahrzeugtagung") at TU Graz. His findings were published in the proceedings of the meeting as well in the ZEVrail ...
DAC interoperability tests at Knorr-Bremse Budapest
Under the motto "Transforming Europe's Rail Freight", the four manufacturers Dellner, Knorr-Bremse, Voith and Faiveley-Wabtec are working together in FP5-TRANS4M-R with the aim of creating an interoperable digital automatic coupler.
Right before the end of 2023 all four manufacturers met at ...
Videos about the ongoing tests in the Train Test Lab
There are different tests being executed at the moment in our Train Test Lab in Berlin-Spandau. Our affiliated entity Rail Sweden has published two videos about it on LinkedIn.
Daniel Wolfram is the lead of the Train Test Lab (Work Package 14) and in this video he talks about the purpose of ...
F&L Event “Still waters run deep” on 22nd of November in Trieste, Italy
Under the title “Still water run deep – Changing Global Supply Chains & European Trade Flows” 120 senior executives and directors discussed 1,5 days about the key challenges and activities regarding the freight transport of the future.
Our clusterlead for Seamless Freight Lars ...
FP5 and DLR Research Engineer is part of the EU-Rail campaign “European Year of Skills”
James Bell is a research engineer at our beneficiary DLR. He works in the field of aerodynamics and contributes to the research on efficient aerodynamics of freight trains. In the interview he talks about his tasks as an exploratory researcher and which skills he needs when working in the ...
Europe’s Rail visits wayside monitoring systems in the Netherlands
On October 4th and October 5th, ProRail hosted a tour past two Dutch Intelligent Video Gates, combined with a meeting at “de Inktpot", ProRail headquarter's in Utrecht. During the tour on Wednesday and the meeting on Thursday, most contributors to WP25.4 “Specifications for Standardised ...
Train Test Lab successfully opened
The Train Test Lab has successfully been opened with a small ceremony on September 15th 2023 in Berlin. After a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Patrick Seeßle (DB Cargo) with Dr. Armin Günther (DB Cargo), Anna Björkman (Lindholmen Science Park), Ralf Marxen (Deutsche Bahn), Hans-Christian ...
DAC conference at Expoferroviaria – 4th October 2023
Organized by the Logistics Business Unit of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A and the Wabtec Corporation, the “Digital Automatic Coupling: the chance to revolutionize European rail freight transport” seminar was held on October 4th, 2023, within the 11th edition of Expo Ferroviaria 2023, ...
ÖBB hosted two events for staff and stakeholders to inform about the DAC
Photo: Valerie Baumgartner during her presentation (Courtesy of ÖBB/Scheiblecker)
On the 4th of October our member ÖBB hosted the two internal events DAC4STAFF and DAC4STAKEHOLDERS at the Kledering shunting yard in Vienna. In addition to live demonstrations with the DAC4EU train on the ...
Major Milestone achieved with successful publication of Operational Procedures for Full Digital Freight Train Operations
FP5-TRANS4M-R has developed the first Europe-wide agreed target operational procedures for Full Digital Freight Train operation under the lead of Andreas Haller (DB Cargo AG). On 1 August, the FP5-TRANS4M-R team came together at Knorr-Bremse premises in Munich to learn about the now available ...
FP5-TRANS4M-R 1st Plenary Meeting in October 2022 in Munich
The 1st Plenary meeting of Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking Flagship Project 5 TRANS4M-R was the occasion for numerous representatives of the 71 consortium members to meet in Munich. The event was hosted by Knorr-Bremse and organized together with Deutsche Bahn and ÖBB.
Board members of ...