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Posted in February 2016

International rail summit 2016: Big Data and rail

Posted on 18/02/2016 by

Big Data also enter the railway industry. Board computers, passenger smart cards and cell phones provide valuable data to enhance design of networks and timetables. Big Data supports the improvement of transport models and cost benefit analyses (CBAs). An example of success was the approval of a new light rail in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It was not common use to consider reliability benefits explicitly, but in this case they were responsible for the positive cost benefit ratio.

Find my presentation at the Railsummit 2016 HERE

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