Indra is working on the design and development of a smart gate used to digitally identify cars and loading units transported in rail terminals. The new solution will allow an increase of 10 percent in the capacity, reliability and punctuality of goods transport by train.
Within the framework of the FR8Hub R&I project (Real time information applications and energy efficient solutions for rail freight), the company will transfer the functionality of its free-flow identification and electronic toll collection gantry for highways to applications for rail traffic, moving from the dynamic and real-time automatic detection, classification and identification of vehicles to that of railcars and goods.
This is possible thanks to the advanced Indra solution, which includes laser sensors and capture of high resolution images, to which new sensors will be added, such as electronic tags with RFID technology, and specific algorithms for the identification of rolling stock.
Indra also participates in defining the management system of the rail network of goods, which will improve this transport system’s tactics and operational planning. The FR8Hub project will develop a multimodal data exchange platform between the different actors involved in goods transport to make all the information generated available to the operator, which will be able to know what goods are to arrive, which have been dispatched, etc. and thereby improve decision-making.
The definition of this network management system will allow Indra to evolve its DaVinci TMS system to integrate it in rail freight transport. This adaptation, in addition to new developments framed within the transversal IMPACT-2 project, also part of Shift2Rail, would allow for integrating Indra’s DaVinci system with the new intermodal data exchange platform. Thus, all information could be accessed in real time and new services created that are specific and more precise, for both the network’s operator and users.
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