Infrabel's Smart Railway Project bears fruit at Brussels exhibition

摘要

BELGIUM boasts one of Europe's busiest railways - 6500km of main line track currently hosts more than 4000 trains every day. And with on time performance slipping to 87.2% in 2018, the pressure is building on infrastructure manager Infrabel to align network reliability more closely with the needs and expectations of increasingly-demanding customers. As part of its work to meet this challenge, Infrabel is actively exploring the use of new digital technologies. The goal is to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of infrastructure and the work of the teams charged with carrying out maintenance, enhancement and repair work. In practice, this means replacing manual inspections which require track possessions with automated processes in order to minimise line closures. It also means shifting from interval-based to predictive maintenance.