DIRECTRAINS
One path, many trains. Directrains seeks to change how the world moves and reduce emissions by enabling trains to join and separate in motion, making the cleanest transport network we already have more flexible, more efficient, and ready to take freight and passengers off the road.
About Us
Relevant Challenges
Reduced Material Resources
Until now, more rail capacity meant more building: new lines, new signalling, bigger fleets, and all the steel, concrete and land they take. Directrains adds capacity without building anything. We fit a coupling wagon to trains already running, and our software decides where they join and separate along the way. Existing tracks, signalling and trains carry far more traffic, and the network stays exactly as it is. Traffic moved this way saves twice: the emissions of the trucks and cars it replaces, and the concrete that never has to be poured.
Transportation Modality
Implementing DTS technology significantly reduces CO2 Emissions by facilitating the shift of freight and passengers from road and airlines to rail. Using only the existing railway infrastructure, Dynamic Coupling increases a single track capacity by ~ 40%, enables shared infrastructure and reuse of existing resources for greater transport efficiency.
Supply Chain Optimization
Supply chains need rail to be as responsive as the road: frequent, direct, and able to serve many destinations. Dynamic Coupling makes that possible. Shorter, dedicated trains combine into convoys on the run and split where their routes diverge, so freight operators can add destinations and increase frequency on existing lines without waiting for new paths. Shippers get direct, scheduled rail service for short-haul, express, and multi-destination flows that today depend on trucks. Because every train keeps its own route and schedule, the system also gives each shipment a clear, predictable path from origin to destination. The result is a supply chain that is more agile, more resilient to road congestion, and lower carbon at the same time.
Read more here: https://directrains.com/use-cases
