The Indian Railway is going through a dynamic period of growth, with new advancements providing world-class services in both freight and passenger transit. The achievements include moving toward greater mobility on the high-density network (HDN) and highly used network (HUN) as per the National Rail Plan to comply with the Indian Railway’s Vision 2024 with 100% railway electrification to meet carbon neutrality by 2030, improving capacity by integrating Automatic Block Signalling with Traffic Management systems (TMS/CTC) by raising sectional speed and increasing overall safety by eliminating manned level crossings.
Implementing technology solutions such as safety enhancements, infrastructure upgrades, train operations effectiveness, passenger experience movement, and organisational capability enhancement will be essential for Indian Railways to move closer to world-class railway operations. Allowing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Public Private Partnership (PPP), and Private Operations of Passenger and Freight Trains for its current asset monetization is an important part of revamping the Indian Railways infrastructure through technological improvement.
There are many technologies which are now changing the landscape of the Railways & Metro Projects globally. The few most prominent technologies are discussed as under:
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