Advances in IT and communications technology are opening up opportunities for real-time monitoring of freight movements across Europe and beyond. Dr-lng Thomas Rieckenberg reports from the EurailTelematics conference in Berlin. A fully-equipped fleet of intelligent freight wagons, reporting their location, status and consignment details in real time, may seem an impossible dream. But that was the prospect held out by Rainer Wilke, head of business processes and information systems at Railion Deutsch-land, when he addressed the third EurailTelematics conference in Berlin on April 2. Following successful events in 2005 and 2007, the conference organised by International Railway Technology Consulting and DW Rail Media attracted around 90 delegates.
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