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Today’s era is majorly driven by digitalization and becoming one of the most propelling forces of change. The advances and progresses in the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and AI have started out the digital revolution in industries. Digitalization is not only transforming business, but bringing pace and offering higher availability, greater automation, continual connectivity and enhanced sustainability.

These days, as cities continue growing, the demand for efficient mass transit continues to amplify. More than half of the world’s population is already living in cities today; the number is projected to reach by another 2.5 billion by 2050. The more people living in cities, the more significant it is to make the trip seamless from one place to another.

However, the digitalization of mass transit infrastructure here is meeting this demand and fueling the mobility of people with greater availability, optimization of assets, and improved journey experience. Therefore, everyone can see here, digitalization provides wholly new opportunities for flexibility, effectiveness, and competence to both companies and customers.

Connectivity of Everything Driving Digitalization in Mobility

Digitalization is shifting all aspects of business, redefining marketing strategies and delivering a mindset transformation for brands and businesses globally in one side. Conversely, Big Data is supporting this transformation, as countless sensors not only in mobility modes like cars or trains, but also in the streets, tunnels, and buildings, even on people and their smartphones all are generating trillions of terabytes of data, and presenting information everywhere the world.

This arrival of the information everywhere the world is transforming the rail industry, as connectivity and the IoT offers new opportunities and transforms existing rail infrastructure into more efficient, intelligent, smarter, and sustainable one.

Mobility-As-a-Service in the Transition of Sustainable Mobility

According to the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) reveals that to efficiently lessen congestion and pollution in cities, policies should focus mainly on the rarest resource. The report noted that Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) could play a vital role in the transition towards truly sustainable mobility. However, this is provided regulation guarantees to new mobility models complement and not substitute for public transport.

Connectivity and data analytics of mass transit systems allows for greater predictive maintenance of systems and products – either the Passenger Information System (PIS) on the train, an axel counter on a rail track or an escalator at a station. Additionally, with the continuing advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twins, we can envisage failures and the desired action needed to fix the issue through virtual copies of a real component.

In a crux, digitalization is redefining urban mobility with the help of greater connectivity and data analytics. Additionally, it is infiltrating customer behaviors in more ways than computers, tablets, and smartphones.