LATEST NEWS FROM THE PROJECT
DAC Industry Days 2024 – Hands-on exchange between operators and industry partners
The development of the Digital Automatic Coupler is a joint activity of European Railway Undertakings, Infrastructure Managers and...
Strong and successful FP5-TRANS4M-R participation to the 2024 SmartRaCon Scientific Seminar
The Smart Rail Control Consortium (SmartRaCon) consists of the members CEIT (ES), DLR (GE), RISE (SE), SINTEF (NO), University Gus...
FP5-TRANS4M-R InnoTrans 2024 Recap
The Flagship Project 5 – TRANS4M-R was strongly represented at the biggest trade fair for transport technology from September 24th to 27th in Berlin.
Apart from a joint representati...
RECAP DAC DAY powered by Knorr-Bremse und PROSE
The DAC DAY powered by Knorr-Bremse and PROSE on 27.06.2024 was a complete success thanks to the great commitment of the participants, speakers and organisers! Th...
PRESS RELEASE: E-Coupler design decision taken in FP5-TRANS4M-R
Announcement: DAC Day in Switzerland 27.06.2024
DAC DAY - powered by Knorr-Bremse und PROSE - an industry initiative
UPDATE Video Available! Progress of DAC and Seamless rail freight technology development shown in Vienna
The video of the event is now online!
Watch the video on YouTube<...
Joint position paper on DAC in Europe signed by Austrian, German and Swiss Ministers for Transport
Last week the Austrian Minister Leonore Gewessler, German Minister Volker Wissing and Swiss Minister Albert Rösti have signed the joint position paper "Die DAK k...
DB Cargo representing FP5-TRANS4M-R at Transport Research Arena 2024 in Dublin
Today, Patrick Seessle, the Flagship...
Collaboration between Europe‘s Rail projects on Multimodal Logistic topics
At Multimodal Logistics Taskforce, a conference on Tuesday 19th of ...
FP5-TRANS4M-R Video available on YouTube
Our project video is now available on YouTube!
The video explains our motivation, our goals and our approach towards the...
Video of the Swedish Demo Train Available
The Demo Train "Swedish Steel" (Work Package 16) is currently being prepared to run from Lulea to Borlänge. In the start it will be equipped with four DACs in the b...
Webinar on FP5-TRANS4M-R progress by Rail Sweden on 14/02/2024
Our partner Trafikverket and its affiliated entity Rail Sweden...
Article about interoperable automation in ZEVrail Special Issue Graz 2023
Steffen Jass from Knorr-Bremse gave a presentation on the challenges of interoperable automation in Freight Rail Sector at the 48t...
DAC interoperability tests at Knorr-Bremse Budapest
Under the motto "Transforming Europe's Rail Freight", the four manufacturers Dellner, Knorr-Bremse, Voith and Faiveley-Wabtec are working together in FP5-TRANS4M-R with the aim of creating an inter...
Videos about the ongoing tests in the Train Test Lab
There are different tests being executed at the moment in our Train Test Lab in Berlin-Spandau. Our affiliated entity Rail Sweden has published two videos about it on LinkedIn.
F&L Event "Still waters run deep" on 22nd of November in Trieste, Italy
Under the title “Still water run deep – Changing Global Supply Chains & European Trade Flows...
FP5 and DLR Research Engineer is part of the EU-Rail campaign “European Year of Skills”
Europe’s Rail visits wayside monitoring systems in the Netherlands
On October 4th and October 5th, ProRail hosted a tour past two Dutch Intell...
ÖBB hosted two events for staff and stakeholders to inform about the DAC
Photo: Valerie Baumgartner during her presentation (Courtesy of ÖBB/Scheiblecker)
DAC conference at Expoferroviaria - 4th October 2023
Organized by the Logistics Business Unit of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A and the Wabtec Corporation, the “Digital Automat...
Train Test Lab successfully opened
The Train Test Lab has successfully been opened with a small ceremony on September 15th 2023 in Berlin. After a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Patrick Seeßle (DB Cargo) with Dr. Armin Günther ...
Major Milestone achieved with successful publication of Operational Procedures for Full Digital Freight Train Operations
FP5-TRANS4M-R has developed the first Europe-wide agreed...
FP5-TRANS4M-R 1st Plenary Meeting in October 2022 in Munich
The 1st Plenary meeting of Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking Flagship Project 5 TRANS4M-R was the occasion for numerous re...
