February 8, 2023 •Déborah
🕰️ Railways News!
Recently, the Spanish railway company, Renfe, has faced a technical problem on its new trains. The arrival of the new vehicle models on its rails in Asturias and Cantabria has been delayed due to an incident regarding the size of these new trains. Indeed, their size is too large to cross certain tunnels present in this area…
This kind of error can be tragic and this is not the first time that this has happened in the rail industry. But we know that this kind of study is necessarily complex to carry out and really time-consuming: required and specific equipment to carry out surveys - field measurements requiring closing the tracks - long analysis of the results... So many obstacles that encourage to try to do without this analysis… And this is precisely why the deeptech TheCrossProduct has developed a technology that greatly facilitates this kind of study in order to help network managers!
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