In the digital railway system of the future, trains will run fully automatically. AI will control traffic and capacity management in real time. To facilitate those innovations a new concept of IT platforms is designed and tested as part of the Cloud4Rail project of ““: The aim is a modular IT platform for safety-critical railway applications of digital railway operations in the Cloud-Edge Continuum.
The Cloud4Rail project will realise the first operational architecture design and demonstration of this concept for trackside applications, such as in the Digital Railway Test Field in the Ore Mountains (). This step from theoretical concepts and specifications to the first practical integration of all systems in a demonstrator is a major advance. It will validate the technical feasibility of the proposed design and test for instance how the IT platform reacts automatically to hardware failures.
