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TECHNOLOGY LEADERS

Digitization, Innovation, and
Standardization: Vision for Rail Transport
By Juan de Dios Sanz Bobi

F W E A S K W H AT T H E
railway strategies for the
immediate space-time
horizon are, without a doubt, the
answer would return us to a permanent state of balance between
efficiency and sustainability of services and include a need to reduce
the emissions of the railway operation. From this perspective, digitalization appears in the railway
electric model with a cross-sectional map to the different technological families applied to the
planning, installations, management, and operation and maintenance of the railway systems.
European society faces challenges
that affect its system, and the railway is no stranger to this.
Society has taken advantage of
its substantial industrial and human
capital and become a place where
citizens enjoy unprecedented opportunities for life and work, well-being,
and freedom, backed by a prosperous and decarbonized data economy. Issues like climate change,
ecological sustainability, economic
globalization, social cohesion, inclusion, and urbanization are tackled
by citizens adopting new habits and
individual and collective lifestyles,
enriched by innovative industrial
processes, infrastructure, operating

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procedures, business models, prodtechnical pillar of the Fourth Railway
ucts, and services.
Package and the Shift2Rail Joint
Digitization is like a vehicular sysUndertaking, which both lead toward
tem, giving a pathway to all the actors
the vision of a Single European Railinvolved in the railway sector and
way Area. Shift2Rail is an important
allowing artificial intelligence to begin
European rail initiative created to
an incipient journey faithful to the
seek focused research and innovafundamental princition and marketples of this mode of
driven solutions by
The initiative aims to
transport. We should
accelerating the intedouble the capacity
make sectoral knowlgration of new and
of the European rail
edge an expert readvanced technolosource letting us 1)
gies into innovative
system and increase
help decision making;
rail product solutions.
its reliability and
learn through the acShift2Rail has amservice quality by 50%,
tions, projects, and
bitious targets and a
all while halving
developments of the
robust framework i n
service and 2) generwhich to meet them.
lifecycle costs.
ate new knowledge to
Specifically, the initiaimprove the resources
tive aims to double the
and assets necessary for the maintenance
capacity of the European rail system
and future management of the railway.
and increase its reliability and service
This technological leap enables us
quality by 50%, all while halving lifeto evolve from a traditional search for a
cycle costs.
service parameter to new, much more
These initiatives are already procomplex scenarios where the restricducing results aimed at an increase
tions arising from social demand, the
in the quality and choice of available
governance of the rail system, and inteservices, a greater capacity to regration into the concept of global
spond to customer needs, and larger
mobility are always in the foreground,
economies of scale, boosting the
keeping in mind the limitation of the
competitiveness of the railway sector
impact on our environment throughby significantly reducing the costs
out the lifecycle of our infrastructure
and administrative burden for stakeand services.
holders in the sector. The digitalizaTechnological innovation gives us
tion vision from Shift2Rail is latent in
opportunities to face the challenges
each of its five pillars of innovation.
of our system. In the regulations, we
The results of Shift2Rail technology
find an attractive position: the
demonstrators include achievements
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