GERMANY: An obstacle detection system is to be tested in regular daily service on the Berlin S-Bahn under various weather and operating conditions.

Siemens Mobility has supplied the hardware, software and digital map, including high-performance LiDAR sensors for close and long-range object detection and an infrared camera. Infrastructure manager DB InfraGo and the national railway’s Digitale Schiene Deutschland partnership have provided newly developed centimetre-level 3D digital mapping.

The system continually compares the position of a train with the location of…