World's first automated 5G railway to be built in Germany

[John Ashworth]

NOKIA TO BUILD THE WORLD’S FIRST 5G AUTOMATED RAILWAY IN GERMANY

Recently, Nokia announced a cooperation with Deutsche Bahn, Hamburg, Germany. Both companies will be responsible for developing the world’s independent 5G first system for automated railway operations...

According to the plan, the “Hamburg Digital Light Rail” project should achieve highly automated train operations on the 21 km long Light Rail Line by 2021. The end target includes the transmission of train control information through Nokia’s 5G network and unmanned shunting of empty trains. The digital trains will also exchange relevant data with the control center over Nokia’s 5G network...