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Despite progress, key challenges remain: boosting electrification, replacing diesel with green alternatives, and modernizing infrastructure. This requires merging cutting-edge tech with legacy systems, enabling autonomous trains, enhancing real-time passenger services, minimizing disruptions, ensuring schedule reliability, and adopting Mobility as a Service. Achieving these goals demands collaboration across the rail sector—mastering innovation, executing digital transformation, and fostering strong tech partnerships.
“Rail remains the most sustainable transport mode, and advancing its digital transformation is now a top political priority. The industry is evolving to meet shifting passenger and freight demands, ensuring rail stays competitive and appealing in a rapidly changing mobility landscape.“ Source: Unife
“Rail remains the most sustainable transport mode, and advancing its digital transformation is now a top political priority. The industry is evolving to meet shifting passenger and freight demands, ensuring rail stays competitive and appealing in a rapidly changing mobility landscape.“
Visit this premier transport tech showcase to see how JDU Consulting bridges legacy rail systems with cutting-edge digital solutions – forging the future of intelligent mobility.
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Optimized Engineering for Rolling StockRail industry manufacturers must rapidly assess design changes and their effect upon system functionality and performance. They have to ensure that all system-level requirements are identified, and compliant at the concept design stage.JDU Consulting accelerates and optimizes the engineering for Rolling stock from the design, Validation & Verification, to Test & Commissioning. Our services encompass its full lifecycle, through industrialized outsourced engineering services and deployment of smart and digital engineering methods and tools.Control Command & Signalling SystemsWhile Railway players must ensure a better reliability and performance, it is crucial to manage the Software driven transformation, based on the development and integration of critical autonomous train control systems.This offer addresses on-board and trackside signalling for overall rolling stock & infrastructure market segments and covers the end-to-end lifecycle from the design, integration, Validation & Verification, Test & Commissioning of critical, autonomous control & command systems.Click here to learn more
Next-Gen Infrastructure & Traffic ManagementWhile infrastructure and transportation operations have to be more and more efficient, it becomes crucial to supervise and monitor systems through digital data engineering. JDU Consulting proposes advanced systems, tools and processes to monitor the infrastructures & traffic.Intelligent Manufacturing & Supply ChainIn a context where product development costs and timescales have to be reduced significantly, JDU Consulting provides advanced tools and processes to help railway manufacturers embrace the revolutionary concepts of Industry 4.0. Intelligent Support & ServicesOEMs have to offer better connected and more convenient travel services to their clients, through intelligent, personalized, and contextual traveling experience. JDU Consulting delivers Intelligent and transformational services for better long-term efficiency, leveraging our complete array of digital expertise and assets.
The rapidly changing market and shifting consumer needs demand swift adaptation from railway companies in their offerings.Globally, manufacturers and operators struggle to design, deploy, and manage increasingly intricate rail systems, necessitating tight collaboration across distributed teams and disciplines. JDU Consulting supports the Rail industry with cutting-edge digital solutions, including Digital Twin and 5G connectivity, enabling faster, safer, and more efficient operations to tackle large-scale railway challenges.
How the sector is changing to shape the future of mobility
JDU Consulting and Network Rail are collaborating on a proof of concept to evaluate an AI-powered call auditing system, designed to assess whether voice communications meet Safety-Critical Communication (SCC) standards.
JDU Consulting partners with SNCF Réseau to enhance the maintenance and modernization of France's national railway infrastructure.
SNCF Optim'Services collaborates with JDU Consulting Invent to create a digital transformation roadmap and establish a new operational model built on strategic
JDU Consulting developed an acclaimed Virtual Train platform in partnership with Alstom. This Smart Engineering solution utilizes Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality technologies.
In collaboration with JDU Consulting, ProRail implemented SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Azure Cloud solutions to enhance operational agility and improve user experience.
