The past 18 months has been arduous for many industries with the rail industry being no exception. However, despite the pandemic, speed of innovation and the development of new intelligent technologies still continues to be a major focus for the industry to successfully achieve a modal shift from road and air to rail. 

As digitalisation and sustainability drive the development in freight and passenger rail, ‘Big Data’ remains the key ingredient to allow Railways to leverage strategic intelligence to improve performance, increase capacity, decrease maintenance costs, and reduce their CO2 emissions at the same time.