Digitalised + optimised = more goods transported by rail

Digitising and optimising the handling processes in the large central marshalling yards is one approach to getting more goods onto the rails.

A research project that pays attention to increasing the attractiveness of rail freight transport and shifting the modal split (= share of a transport mode in the overall transport market) towards rail is "APP ZBA" (Automatic Process Planning in Train Formation yards) at the TU Dresden (TUD), "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences. Together with DB Cargo AG, novel control algorithms for process flows were developed and implemented in a decision support software.

Learn more about the APP ZBA project - Article in the online magazine "Verkehrslage"