PriMa – 11th VPI Symposium

Using the EU “Year of Rails” to advance DAC

“DAC is picking up steam. It is now time to take advantage of the tail wind of the European Year of Rails to speedily move forward with the migration process,” said Malte Lawrenz, VPI chairperson by livestream in his greeting at this year’s VPI Symposium. The wagon keeper association put two topics important to the future of railway traffic at the focus of its symposium: DAC and digital data interchange between wagon keepers and workshops. Informative talks and podium discussions offered exciting insights into the progress on digitalisation and automation of railway traffic. Roughly 450 participants watched the symposium streamed from Hamburg. (...)”