Oncron officially founded

Like the blossoms and new growth we see this spring, this did not start today. It is the result of a lot of work that has been happening beneath the surface for quite some time.

Over the past years, the three of us have worked deep inside railway systems, AI development, and technology companies. We've seen firsthand how complex rail operations have become and how much responsibility lies on dispatchers and traffic controllers every single day.

The observation that kept coming back

A small incident in one part of the network can cascade across an entire country. Yet the tools used to manage these situations often provide only a local view. When up to 70% of delays are secondary knock-on effects, it becomes critical to prevent as many dominos from falling as possible.

That gap led us to a simple question: what would railway traffic control look like with true system-wide visibility?

The questions we kept asking ourselves

• What if traffic control had a true system-wide view?
• What if AI could support real-time decisions across the entire network?

Those questions became Oncron.

What we have done so far

• Spoken to potential customers and users
• Built a prototype running on real data
• Secured initial funding

Now the real work begins.

Together with Thomas Zehelein and Lewis Gill, we are building network-wide real-time optimization. We are starting in rail, where we know the problems best, to give decision-makers super-human visibility.

Special thanks to Dan Lee-Bursnall and Jens Engelmann for their active support, and to Norman Weik, Professor for Design and Operation of Public Rail Transport Systems, for his guidance.

If you care about punctuality, operational resilience, or unlocking capacity on existing rail infrastructure, we would be happy to connect. You can also reach out directly to Thomas Böhm.