All articles by Julian Turner

Security on the railway: does collecting personal data have a place?

Passengers on board Eurostar services between Brussels and London will soon be parting with more than just the price of…
Rail apps: unlocking the power of open data

Ask passengers what would be at the top of their wish list of improvements to UK rail services and chances…
How IT is revolutionising rail resource planning with Quintiq and Ab Ovo

Ruud Verstegen is business unit director of rail and public transport at Dutch software company Quintiq. He has over ten…
Step change: Network Rail’s Neal Lawson talks platform safety

Shortly before 11.30pm on Saturday 22 October 2011, teenager Georgia Varley was struck and killed by the same train she…
Battle lines: the fight for California’s High-Speed Rail project

On 10 May 1869, at remote Promontory Summit in Utah, California Governor Leland Stanford drove in the ceremonial final spike…

Intelligent design: the future of fare-dodging surveillance technology

The gravitational pull exerted by Barcelona on the world's travellers remains irresistible. A record 7.4 million tourists visited the Catalan…
Talking Integrated wireless connectivity on trains with Nomad Digital’s Jay Saw

Jay Saw is commercial director at Nomad Digital, the leading global provider of high-availability communication solutions to the transport sector.…
Introducing the UK’s first Tram-Train

David Crosbee is a senior research fellow at the University of Huddersfield's Institute of Railway Research. Previously, he was a…
Axell Wireless’s Ingo Flomer talks DAS technology and mobile broadband

Ingo Flomer is director of product marketing at Axell Wireless, a leading provider of distributed antenna systems (DAS) and wireless…
The Italian job: supply chain software optimises NTV rail operations

The European Union's (EU) stated goal of developing a trans-continental high-speed rail network is fast becoming a reality, as the…