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Rail Freight Automation: Knorr-Bremse Conducts Real-World DAC System Tests

Rail Freight Automation: Knorr-Bremse Conducts Real-World DAC System Tests
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07 / 04 / 2023

DAC is a key innovation for Knorr-Bremse, which aims to sell an automated system for rail freight transport by 2025. It has started its testing in actual railway conditions in Sweden.

According to the chairman of the management board of Knorr-Bremse Rail Vehicle Systems, Dr Nicolas Lange, testing innovative rail freight transport technologies is crucial to gaining valuable insights that will allow speeding up the development of solutions for the rail market. DAC will be tested until 2025 on a train operated by Trafikverket CFL. The vehicle is supposed to travel approximately 100,000 kilometres per year. Its testing is being carried out under the auspices of the EU's research and innovation programme, the European Railway Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail). Winter operation of the train, including tests on ice, will show how durable the coupling system is.

Knorr-Bremse has the ambition to be the leader in the supply of automated system solutions for freight transport by 2026. Currently, around 500,000 freight wagons and 17,000 locomotives are manually coupled. The EU aims to shift a significant part of cargo from trucks to more ecological rail transport by 2030. Knorr-Brems recently won the first order for its new transit couplers and is due to start delivering its innovation for metros in Italy at the end of 2023.

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