Digital Twins: An Advanced technology for Railways Maintenance Transformation

This document is dedicated to an advancing technology, which provides rail owners and operators the opportunity to improve both rail vehicle and the network asset performance. Digital Twin is a key software technology for the coming railway maintenance transformation. It directly links all the process and data from the real objects into a virtual representation. Therefore, it delivers a constant flow of data and information, which are used to predict, simulate and give insights to the railway's maintenance responsible. The paper presents an overview of the possibilities of the Digital Twin technology and its implementation for the transformation of railway maintenance and digital activation of rolling stock, railway infrastructure, signalling.