Tootfinder

Sometimes I reminisce of the times past. I go all the way to my youth, back when I believed that there are more important things in life than the railways.

Russia remains anchored tot he past in their reliance on railways and primitive logistics.
Ukraine demonstrates the power of a functioning road system as one simple and obvious benefit of embracing a European (modern world) approach to transit.
This translates into battlefield strategy for Ukraine to dominate, even with much smaller numbers.
#ukraine

Railways Of War
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

I saw this clock design for the first time this morning and initially read it as a warning. Like a timer on an explosive?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/16/great-british-railways-clock-launches-london-bridge

NS International Railways tries to make international rail travel even harder. Screenshot by my daughter, travelling from Barcelona to Rotterdam today. The app is informing her that the train from Paris to Rotterdam leaves on the same platform at Gare du Lyon where the train from Barcelona arrives. Not really. It leaves from a different station (Gare du Nord), about half an hour away by RER city train. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦

While we are distracted by other things, Putin is escalating the war in Ukraine, Poland increases it's readiness after sabotage/attacks on railways....We need more quick and firm action with regard to supporting Ukraine.
#ukraine #ternopil

Today is the anniversary of America's time zones. Before the railways forced standardization, every town had local time, more or less based on solar time. That was chaos.
England actually had railway time decades earlier.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-histor<…

Run-Time Monitoring of ERTMS/ETCS Control Flow by Process Mining
Francesco Vitale, Tommaso Zoppi, Francesco Flammini, Nicola Mazzocca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10419 https://…

Run-Time Monitoring of ERTMS/ETCS Control Flow by Process Mining
Ensuring the resilience of computer-based railways is increasingly crucial to account for uncertainties and changes due to the growing complexity and criticality of those systems. Although their software relies on strict verification and validation processes following well-established best-practices and certification standards, anomalies can still occur at run-time due to residual faults, system and environmental modifications that were unknown at design-time, or other emergent cyber-threat sce…

Estimating Cellular Network Delays in Finnish Railways: A Machine Learning Enhanced Approach
Saeideh Mansouri, Mohamed Shamekh, Simon Indola, Petri Mahonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05003

Estimating Cellular Network Delays in Finnish Railways: A Machine Learning Enhanced Approach
There is growing interest in using public cellular networks for specialized communication applications, replacing standalone sector-specific networks. One such application is transitioning from the aging GSM-R railway network to public 4G and 5G networks. Finland is modernizing its railway communication system through the Digirail project, leveraging public cellular networks. To evaluate network performance, a nationwide measurement campaign was conducted in two modes: Best Quality and Packet R…