I agree with what you say to an extent, but for the railways to go over to true automation would require a complete rewrite on how it designs, procures and operate. Of course, not a impossible task.
Oh and the app you talk of? It would not be deployable today, too much would have to change, and billion would have to be spent to even get to a stage where that information would even be ready for an app to pick it and display it.
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However, that underlying technological change is happening
anyway. For instance, the entirety of the new Crossrail infrastructure is included in one enormous BIM model. After completion, that model isn't just going to disappear off the face of the earth. Instead, it'll be the main plans used whenever maintenance or modifications are required. Instead of needing to go and find paper records and transcribe them into a computer model they'll be able to find them immediately at the click of a button. Since the tunnels will be fitted with 4G and WiFi, there is no good reason why its maintenance crews couldn't be given similar smart devices, which would then give them full access to that entire BIM model.
The cost savings from having all railway records in a BIM model would be immense. When you know everything about the age, condition and formation of every part of the infrastructure you can plan maintenance and improvements far more efficiently. Of course, collecting this data in the first place isn't going to happen overnight, but remember that every time works do need done someone is adding things to a computer model anyway. You could do an enormous amount just by computer analysing all of the recordings made by the forward-facing CCTV cameras on board trains, giving you a sort of railway Street View.
You are basing your knowledge on what is written on Wikipedia.
Righto then!
The section that I was reading is an accurate translation of the original French accident reports, as is the standard for Wikipedia articles about recent events with primary sources.
And yet we have hundreds of thousands of able bodied people out of work!
And we'll have even more people out of work in the very near future. If we don't plan for the post-job society, then we won't have a society at all. The UBI will end up resulting in more jobs as people will end up doing things that they actually like doing rather than just whatever work they can find.