Japanese railway companies are turning to artificial intelligence to help tackle potential problems for their shinkansen bullet trains caused by the accumulation of snow.West Japan Railway Co. is developing an AI system to gauge the amounts of snow attached to Hokuriku Shinkansen trains that cut through Niigata, Toyama and Ishikawa prefectures along the coast of the Sea of Japan.The railway operator currently decides how many personnel it deploys for snow clearance a day beforehand, based on information from meteorological data providers and past experience, but it is often not very accurat…READ FULL ARTICLE