Gerald Schinagl

Big Data and digital systems are opening up a wide range of possibilities for freight railway infrastructure, resulting in faster transmission, greater storage capacity and where channelling the data can assist in the way organisations can manage assets. Yet such success involves getting the right interfaces and strategy in place internally and gaining buy-in for investment of systems to unlock real productivity. With learnings from OBB’s strategy, you will have the opportunity to understand how to better manage data and embrace it as a valuable asset to maintaining freight rail infrastructure and improve future services.

Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is the freight division of ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways). As leading rail logistics specialists from Europe to Asia, RCG covers nearly 52 million kilometres a year and runs over 518 000 trains a year. Together these two organizational units are delivering digital innovation projects together to implement future-oriented, punctual logistic solutions that will deliver sustainable and efficient supply chain connectivity. Such innovations include IoT, Data Science and Prediction and Optimisation by AI. In this case study, Gerald will focus on these digital innovations that prove to enhance freight operations, discussing: