The Rail Industry in the EU: Towards digitalization

The Rail Industry in the EU: Towards digitalization

When it comes to transportation, the train represents a symbol of pride for many European countries, reflecting the progress of industrial development and the engine of passenger mobility. As an example, the EU demand for passenger transport increased by around 10% between 2015 and 2019, when it would register a peak of 414 billion passenger-kilometers (pkm) only to be interrupted due to the...

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Cyber security in the Railways Industry

Cyber security in the Railways Industry

Cybersecurity has become a real trendy world in everybody’s live either used as a fancy term, to generate confidence associated to high technology topics, or to create panic and generate that sense of fear and urge for protection. We can find this uncomfortable…

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How the latest vehicle connectivity technologies can create new competitive advantages for bus fleet operators

How the latest vehicle connectivity technologies can create new competitive advantages for bus fleet operators

For many years, bus fleet operators have been able to offer basic internet services to their passengers, based on 3G or 4G communications and, probably, Wi-Fi 5 (IEEE 802.11 ac) which was released in 2014.By now, offering such services is not enough to make a fleet operator competitive. Instead, failing to provide even this level of connectivity would become a competitive setback. And these...

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IoT and vehicle communications

IoT and vehicle communications

Vehicles are currently undergoing a technical revolution spearheaded by IoT technologies. While there are already examples of cars that can park on their own and self-driving vehicles are emerging, this is not yet a reality accessible to all. And this is the challenge OEMs and part manufacturers for cameras, proximity sensors, etc. are currently facing: IoT technologies are still only found in...

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Sustainable mobility: another challenge for Smart Cities

Sustainable mobility: another challenge for Smart Cities

There are now almost 25,000 electric plug-in vehicles registered in Spain. According to forecasts by the Ministry for Ecological Transition, the figure will rise to 5 million by 2030. Driving sustainable mobility has become one of the main objectives of Smart Cities. To this end, we must find a balance and adapt cities to allow citizens to quickly and easily move in and out of urban centers...

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