Digital transformation with Siemens Xcelerator
For public transportation to be as sustainable and cost-efficent as possible, trains and rail infrastructure must be used to their full potential. With our digital transformation strategy and our open digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator, we connect rail asset owners, operators, and maintainers in one mobility ecosystem.
For public transportation to be as sustainable and cost-efficent as possible, trains and rail infrastructure must be used to their full potential. With our digital transformation strategy and our open digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator, we connect rail asset owners, operators, and maintainers in one mobility ecosystem.
Providing sustainable, comfortable and cost-effective rail travel
Lever 1: Optimized lifecycle costs for rail infrastructure
Reduce running costs across the entire operation – Trains and infrastructure are often in service for more than 30 years, so we need to plan for their entire lifetime. Equipping trains with built-in connectivity for Digital Train Solutions helps to reduce costs, manage trains seamlessly from the wayside, and prevent disruptions with live monitoring and remote configuration.
Lever 2: 100% system availability
Know your rail system is always running – More efficient maintenance, prevention of unplanned downtime, fewer unnecessary transfers to the depot, and no needless parts swapping – operations intelligence makes it happen.
Lever 3: Maximized network capacity
Get the most out of your public transportation assets – By moving rail infrastructure into the cloud and thus replacing hardware components by one central interlocking, enormous efficiency gains for operators can be achieved as maintenance costs are reduced by 30%.
Lever 4: Optimized customer experiences and processes
Improve your rail offering with intelligent applications – With our software solutions, we offer rail operators ideal tools for optimizing transport operations and making travel easier for passengers. Our Mobility software portfolio includes solutions of specialized subsidiaries, such as:
- Sqills - S3 Passenger for mainline inventory, reservation and ticketing
- Padam - DRT software (intelligent and dynamic demand-responsive transport)
Digital transformation in action
Siemens Xcelerator
In the rail transportation industry, there are typically many systems running in parallel, due to different suppliers in each national or even each local transportation system. Siemens Xcelerator helps our customers unify fragmented rail systems with the overall intention of providing higher availability, punctuality, and utilization of trains and rail infrastructure. It is the vendor-agnostic technological roof on top of our digital transformation strategy, allowing us to functionally unify our proprietary and third-party solutions. And it means a promise to our customers that we will connect trains, infrastructure, operators and passengers.
How do we do this?
- We make software more modular and enable transportation stakeholders to exchange data in a standardized way over composable digital touchpoints.
- We use standardized Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to help our customers unify fragmented rail systems no matter who has built the system.
- We move software modules to the cloud by combining and virtualizing different transportation ecosystems, such as trains, infrastructure, operators and passengers, on a digital platform.
Siemens Xcelerator advantages – available with Mobility Software Suite X and Railigent X
Connecting people with Mobility Software Suite X
We ensure seamless travel for a sustainable future supporting operators and passengers. Check out our inventory, reservation and ticketing solutions for mainline offerings like demand-responsive mobility.
Connecting assets: Railigent X
Railigent X is the suite of applications that includes data services like system integration, customer value discovery, or cybersecurity. No matter if it’s about asset data (DaaS), computed patterns and algorithms (IaaS), or end-to-end support deployed in applications right out of the box (SaaS). Railigent X supports the digital transformation of rail systems for sustainable transportation of people and goods in an open ecosystem.
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Siemens Xcelerator transforms rail travel worldwide
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