Sunday 7 July 2019

BCS Northampton: Digital Railways

On the 25th June 2019, BCS Northampton held a talk on the changes happening, from a digital perspective, within the UK railways, presented by Chris Blackburn and Adam Bradley.


Overview
The UK Railway system is currently being modernised
These changes are brought about by the introduction of Digital technologies
• The introduction of new services and timetables.
• Introducing faster trains.
• Better trains and carriages.
• The introduction of new onboard services such as Wi-Fi to passengers.
• Better management of the existing infrastructure by Digitial and IOT technologies.
• Tactically managing the networks and reducing the number of faults and accidents due to equipment failure.
• Moving the railways from the 20th Century to the 21st Century.

    The slides are available at: Slides

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