Amtrak’s North-east Corridor is the busiest railway line in North America, and also the most grumbled about. Its reliability is about average for the government-owned network — about one in five of its trains ran significantly late last year — but because it connects the centres of United States financial and political power, it is the subject of the loudest complaints about slow service.
Out of sight of the disgruntled passengers, however, Amtrak’s engineers are being supported by some of the world’s most advanced technologies to prevent those delays. Siemens, the German group that built some of the locomotives used on the Washington to New York line, is deploying what is known as the “industrial Internet of Things (IoT)” to predict problems before they happen.
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