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SIGNAL+DRAHT | Ausgabe 03/2025

Is a digitalised railway necessary?

März 2025 | Christian Schunke Mau

As engineers, we prefer to write about the variety of digital technologies awaiting implementation in the railway system. Meanwhile, the digitalisation of the railway has become a societal question: what do we expect from the railway? A necessary contribution to climate neutrality? An attractive mode of transport with corresponding performance and punctuality? An appealing employer that respects demographic changes? Or is the restoration of the railway to the production forms of 50 years ago sufficient...