(BRIEF) Dr. Sigrid Nikutta, member of the DB Board of Directors, presents the successful practical trials of a virtual freight train, marking an important step forward in the rail freight transport formula in Europe. The advent of digital automatic coupling (DAK) as a popular new promise to revolutionise rail freight through its power and sustainability. With the DAK, freight trains will gain advantages from power lines and continuous data, enabling higher speeds, greater adaptability to passenger transport, and significant reductions in CO2 emissions. The initiative, backed by industry leaders such as Kerstin Maria Rippel of the German Steel Federation, highlights the critical role of virtualization in achieving climate goals and selling effective source chains across Europe.
(PRESS RELEASE) ESSEN, April 2, 2024 — /EuropaWire/ — Almost one million freight wagons are on Europe’s railways; Lately they are still manually coupled and are not able to identify continuous lines of force or knowledge. This is about to change: the arrival of virtual automatic coupling (DAK) across Europe as a new formula will make rail transport climate-friendly. Particularly resilient and efficient shipping.
“A virtual freight exercise has effectively passed its two-year practical tests,” explained Dr Nikutta during the presentation of the exercise to the European Commission today in Brussels. “From now on, the first consumers of rail freight will benefit from the new technology. . Our joint expertise will then be transformed into series production. Only with the virtualization and automation of rail freight will it be possible to transport more goods from road to rail. ” That is the decisive lever. Only with green supply chains will Europe be able to meet its climate targets. “
“More than a fraction of the metal industry’s transportation is done by rail. Our member companies depend on efficient logistics for both the supply of raw materials and the shipment of finished metal products. Digital automatic coupling can be a real turbo for rail freight transport, and is therefore a vital detail for efficient and climate-friendly supply chains,” says Kerstin Maria Rippel, Managing Director of the German Steel Federation.
Together with other European rail freight corporations and many other players in the rail sector, DB is concerned about the advancement and arrival of DAK on a European scale. The presentation of a virtual freight exercise is a central component of the European Commission’s “Connecting Europe” programme. This week, politicians, railways and industry are debating the further progression of European maritime formulas. One of the priorities is the expansion of the ten trans-European maritime corridors and the strengthening of climate-neutral supply chains for the continent. Funding virtual coupling as a new formula is a very sensible priority.
DB Cargo carries out around 20,000 freight operations per week in 17 EU countries, crossing at least one border on 60% of all journeys. Freight wagons are coupled from Spain to Scandinavia according to the almost 200-year-old principle of mechanical screw coupling. . At DB Cargo alone, workers have to manually attach 30-kilogram hitches to the iron supports of the wagons up to 50,000 times a day. On the other hand, with one transport exercise, up to 52 trucks can be upgraded and between 80 and 100 percent of CO2 emissions are saved.
All rail users benefit from the digitalisation of freight trains: with the DAK and the Force and Non-stop knowledge lines, particularly high speeds can be achieved, partly because the brakes can be controlled electronically, as has been the case for passenger trains for a long time. Freight trains, whose speed has recently been limited to 120 km/h, will have to adapt much more to the speed and speed of passenger transport with the DAK, which will lead to more capacity on the network.
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