International rail transport

Mail by rail: a new business opportunity and its legal framework

Transporting mail by rail from the People’s Republic of China to Western Europe is seen as a tremendous business opportunity for the member railways of the CIT, but also for the general development of global online trade (e-commerce).

T Division

Digitalisation and technology – two sides of the same coin

The Deutsche Bahn Group is striving to be a technology leader in the mobility industry trough a combination of digitalisation, technical knowledge and rail-specific expertise.

Rolling stock maintenance

RailCrowd’s virtual fleets: Make most of your asset data

The RailCrowd platform sets out to facilitate compliance with the ECM and similar regulations while pooling anonymised fleet data across operators to form virtual fleets. The result is greater data insight.

Internationalisation

HR management at an engineering and consulting company active around the world

DB Engineering & Consulting is one of the world’s leading companies in infrastructure, mobility, and transport solutions today. Constant growth in recent years is reflected by the need for specialists to work on projects around the world.

Global railway market for multiple units

Hybrid vehicles on the rise

The global OEM market for regional and suburban multiple units is one of the largest and most dynamic product segments in the railway sector.

DB Manual: Railway system knowledge

Integrated rail system

The DB reference book “Railway system knowledge – How the German rail system works” is a practical guide for professionals beginning a career in the railway sector and for employees involved in international projects. This excerpt describes rail subsystems and how they are connected.

DB Language Management

Contextualising linguistic knowledge

DB Language Management, with its translators and interpreters, is a service unit at Deutsche Bahn that many colleagues in the Group possibly only discover when working directly in an international environment. The department plays a central role thanks to its work shaping and maintaining a corporate language for DB.

Fourth Railway Package

Getting new trains „on track“

At the end of the three-year implementation period, the European Union Agency for Railways will become a European authorising authority from mid-June 2019 according to the technical pillar of the fourth Railway Package.

Viertes Eisenbahnpaket

Neue Züge „auf Schiene“ bringen

Das vierte Eisenbahnpaket ist die wichtigste Gesetzesinitiative in der Geschichte der europäischen Eisenbahn. Die Europäische Eisenbahnagentur kann damit als erste Behörde europaweit gültige Fahrzeuggenehmigungen und Sicherheitsbescheinigungen ausstellen.

Wasserstofftechnologie

Emissionsfrei auf die Schiene

Mit dem Einsatz von Wasserstofftechnologie sind Fahrgäste abgasfrei, klimaneutral und zuverlässig mit der Bahn unterwegs. Der Schienenverkehr kann damit seinen Umweltvorteil im Wettbewerb der Verkehrsträger weiter ausbauen.