1、How digitalization is transforming rail infrastructure TRENDS AND SOLUTIONS FOR TOMORROWS NETWORKED RAIL TRANSPORTATION2TABLE OF CONTENTSRailways are the backbone of our economy and society.Growing traffic density presents a challenge to many urban areas.Now is the time to look ahead.It is time for

2、ambitious goals and innovative solutions.31The future of digital infrastructure42The first step:Automated driving83Intelligently networked:The enormous potential of big data124The digital revolution in interlockings18Norway:Creating a veritable Internet of Trains205Digital twin of the infrastructure

3、226The digital station247New business models:Mobility as a Service268For future-ready rails28Our vision and innovations at a glance30Table of contentsTABLE OF CONTENTS4Recent innovations have advanced the expansion of digital technologies in our society to a hitherto unknown extent and the pandemic

4、has acceler-ated this trend even more.Every smartphone has a computing capacity that just20yearsagowasonlyavailabletolargeorganizations due to the enormous costs involved.Massive computing power and gigantic memories are available everywhere via mobile broadband The future of digital infrastructureD

5、igitalization is the key to increased availability,automation,connectivity,and sustainability in rail munication.This integration of technology into all areas of our lives is called digitalization,and it is characterized by a previously unimag-inable networking of people via social platforms and of

6、material objects via the Internet of Things(IoT).It enables the development of entirely new and almost inconceivable innovations.For example,didyouknowthattheIP6Internetprotocol could theoretically assign a separate identity to every grain of sand?INTRODUCTION45INTRODUCTIONThe transformation of rail