Railways are harvesting increasing volumes of data on the performance of their assets, but converting raw data into meaningful insights remains a challenge for many organisations in the industry. Keith Barrow reports from Munich on how suppliers, tech companies, train operators and infrastructure managers are harnessing the power of data through advanced asset management systems.
THE answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. After seven-and-a-half million years of calculations, this was the conclusion delivered by Deep Thought, a supercomputer in Douglas Adams’ novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” When Deep Thought’s hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional creators contest her findings, she replies: “I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question was.”