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DB Engineering&Consulting (DB E&C)

DB E&C is providing extensive planning services for the pilot project for the general modernization of the Riedbahn between Mannheim and Frankfurt am Main. The time-critical plans for the command and control technology were drawn up in record time and are currently undergoing final testing. DB E&C is also supporting the project in the areas of geology, environment, waste and geodesy, and is responsible for construction supervision of the Riedbahn. Digital tools such as the X2BIM platform and the digital construction diary are used to complete the construction site properly within the tight time frame.
In 2022, DB E&C became the technical lead for planning section 4 of the “Expansion of the Haiger to Hanau line” project. At the beginning of 2024, the engineering consortium set up to provide the services, which DB E&C is also part of, was commissioned with further planning services.
After the floods of 2021, DB E&C launched a research project on the resilience of track infrastructure on behalf of the German Center for Rail Transport Research (DZSF) in cooperation with the Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management (IWW) at RWTH Aachen University, which will be continued.

The first section of a new regional high-speed rail network was opened in India’s capital, Delhi, in October 2023. The second section went into operation in March 2024, extending the network by a further 17 km and adding three new stations to the network. The Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) is India’s first regional high-speed rail network and will connect the cities of Ghaziabad and Meerut with Delhi over a distance of 82 km within the next year.

The Luxembourg rail infrastructure operator CFL is already using the DIANA diagnostics platform. The IoT-based diagnostics platform DIANA enables the monitoring, control and diagnosis of vehicles and distributed infrastructure systems for preventive maintenance. Back in 2023, CFL decided to extend and expand the sensor technology for switch drive diagnostics and to also use the analysis software for the new construction of the northern line. In the first half of 2024, seven of the 14 locations were equipped with switch drive diagnostics and are connected to DIANA for remote monitoring.
The X2BIM platform operated by infraView combines data from a wide variety of recording systems on one platform, thereby enabling georeferenced, historicized comparison with 2D plans and other reference data. The X2BIM platform is already being used within DB Group and has also been marketed outside the Group since the start of 2024.

For a good climate on trains: DB Systemtechnik and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have been jointly researching how to make air-conditioning convenient, effective and energy-efficient since 2020. This research collaboration was extended for a further three years in June 2024. In the summer of 2020, a regular ICE rail car was converted into a “Demonstrator Vehicle for Innovations in Passenger Comfort and Air-Conditioning,” for research into technologies that improve passenger comfort and reduce the energy requirements of air-conditioning.