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Interview with Oliver Schmerold, CEO of ÖAMTC.

When a vague notion of doing something to improve the safety of railroad track workers crystallizes into an innovative product: Startup Spirit@Mobility – an interview with Philipp Wehn.

Interview with Henrik Falk, CEO of Hamburger Hochbahn AG.

What will the city of the future be: a place for motorized traffic – or a livable green ecosystem?

Where is Siemens Mobility headed with digitalization? What solutions do we already have, and how do they work? Visions for tomorrow’s networked rail transport.

… ordered the Tsar – the 100th anniversary of the Trans-Siberian Railway

Bangkok, a major business center, is preparing for the future by creating a new local public transport network. Siemens is supporting this megacity’s efforts in many different ways.

Professor Dr. Marcel Hunecke, research professor at the Applied Social Studies department of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund, speaks about the psychological factors influencing our mobility behavior and the new role that we humans will adopt in the future world of automated and connected road traffic.

No time-consuming search for the best travel mode or route. No lines at the ticket vending machine. Michael Frankenberg, CEO of Siemens subsidiary HaCon explains how Siemens can intelligently integrate various transportation modes into a holistic ecosystem and turn mobility entirely into a service.

Digitalization is transforming Swiss public transportation. In response, Siemens and Schweizerische Südostbahn (Swiss South Eastern Railway, SOB) have developed the abilio intermodal mobility platform. Thanks to abilio, passengers will in future enjoy seamless travel from door to door.

The effects of overcrowded roads are not just longer commutes, but also higher pollution and lower productivity – not to mention frustrated citizens and hampered economic growth. A new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit offers suggestions on how to get traffic flowing smoothly.

When it comes to rail transport, Siemens offers many elements from a single source – from trains to signaling and control technology to complete service packages. One current example is the modernization of the Thameslink in southern England.

India’s road traffic has reached a breaking point. In response, the Indian government has committed itself to expanding local public transportation. As part of this plan, rail based transport will play a key role in inner-city traffic. Siemens has completed a number of key projects.

Service experts from Mobility Services are active all over the world. Using innovative solutions, they look after the maintenance of all kinds of transport systems and technology – always with the goals of long-term efficiency and profitability in mind. Countless examples demonstrate the enormous diversity of maintenance tasks.

With rising population density, the world's megacities are facing ever more complex problems. This is precisely why they are also the best places for the concerted development of smart solutions for the city of the future. One example is the new Smart City Digital Hub at Hong Kong Science Park, where Mobility is one of the focus topics.

When timetables were updated in December 2015, the newly constructed high-speed line between Halle/Leipzig and Erfurt went into operation. Now, high-speed trains can run on the 123-kilometer route at up to 300 km/h. The train control system ETCS from Siemens not only allows for shorter headways, it also ensures maximum safety – with no need for the usual trackside light signals.

Strong ambitions: By leveraging its favorable location at the intersection of two trans-African transport corridors, Angola plans to become an important logistics hub. For this purpose, a road network of close to 14.000 km is under construction. The key to the future are innovative traffic control systems.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has already reached almost all areas of life – and keeps growing rapidly. Roads and railways, buildings and machines, products and processes carry sensors and exchange data. This opens the previously closed doors to an immense universe of data, a universe that offers countless new options for manufacturers, operators, and end users. Existing business models keep changing and new ones emerge. Mobility is increasingly developing into a service, intermodal travel becomes reality. Industrial processes can be remotely monitored and controlled.

Mario Sela, mobility expert at Bitkom, Germany's digital association, on the technological and social dimensions of artificial intelligence, the potential for optimization that AI offers for mobility, and the question of who should have the final say in automated traffic systems: the machine or the human?

Singapore is at the forefront of innovation in terms of land transport. In a new master plan it sets out a vision for land transport for the next 20 years in response to a growing population and land constraints, and greater expectations and demand for mobility.

At a new Digital Lab, Siemens ITS is developing, in cooperation with pilot customers, data-driven applications and services based on artificial intelligence: The solutions range from network analyses and smart traffic management functions right up to fleet management solutions and tools for intermodal mobility management.

Parking spaces in major cities are hard to find – whether on main roads, side streets or easily accessible parking structures. Aided by a new radar system from Siemens, road users will soon be able to receive information on free parking spaces in real time via an app or navigation device.

India’s road traffic has reached a breaking point. In response, the Indian government has committed itself to expanding local public transportation. As part of this plan, rail based transport will play a key role in inner-city traffic. Siemens has completed a number of key projects.

Transporting people and goods all over the world poses major challenges for cities and regions. Dr. Jochen Eickholt, CEO of Siemens Mobility Division, is firmly convinced that the key requirement for adequate mobility in the future is digitalization.

Markus Schlitt, Head of Siemens Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS), speaks about the integration of the road into the Internet of Things, the new role of cities and towns in the context of increasing mobility digitalization, and the advantages that smart software-driven traffic engineering offers over conventional solutions.

Fred Kalt, Managing Director of Siemens ITS in the Asia Pacific region, speaks about the ambitious urbanization project ‘Smart Nation Singapore’, the first fully integrated Digitalization Hub in this multi-cultural island nation - and the question whether South-East Asia could become the birthplace of the future of mobility.

The massive expansion of Bangkok‘s public transport is part of Thailand’s ambitious Development Plan. The Blue Line – Bangkok’s first underground - will then transport half a million passengers per day. Fortunately, the local head of Siemens Mobility knows the key to success.

Bangkok, a major business center, is preparing for the future by creating a new local public transport network. Siemens is supporting this megacity’s efforts in many different ways.

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