The train is becoming one of the favorite means of transport of the Spaniards. This is demonstrated by the fact that, between January and November 2024, rail traffic reached the 188.4 million trains, 2.1% more that between January and November 2023; The most important increase was recorded in long distance traffic, with 7.1% that the previous year.
The reason is, without a doubt, that it offers efficient, comfortable and sustainable mobility. Despite this, large technological ones work continuously to find improvement points and put them into operation. One of the most interesting is the one that refers to the stationsspaces through which every traveler must travel and who are living an important transformation.
The stations of the future should be more than a mere place of passage, to become centers thought by and for the enjoyment of citizens. One of the reasons that propel this change has to do with the form of mobility of people, also in the process of transformation thanks to the Intermodalitywhich allows the effective exchange between various modes of transport from the same space. An exchange that must be Comfortable, reliable, safe and efficient for both passengers and workers. Only in this way will these spaces be converted into attractive places for citizens.
All this entails a novel infrastructure management in which one of the keys – and greater challenges – is Align the offer of transport services With the demand for travelers for correct dimensioningessential for its profitability and efficiency. The implementation of the latest technologies of digitalization and artificial intelligence will contribute to this correct management, as well as to the rapid access of users to each train, in adequate conditions of air conditioning, lighting and cleaning in the stations, in which They will offer other services.
In the Station of the future Information management will be essential, so that the client Conocates sufficiently anticipated, and through mobile applications, any incidence that occurs, both in the station and in the railway line. The Security, both physical and digitalit will be another of the great bets of these spaces, in which new technologies will be preparing to fight possible cyber attacks.
The analysis and real -time monitoring of the state of the occupation of infrastructure in these spaces will allow to guide travelers to unemployed areas, generate alerts and indicators that allow activating security protocols in case of agglomerations, and improving the perception of comfort and reliability of users, both in simple and intermodal transfers.
Precisely for new transport nodes it will be necessary to have a only source of information Able to correctly distribute the necessary informative content and multimedia, ensuring perfect continuity between platforms, both terrestrial and on board.
For the future station to come true, it is essential to have the collaboration of large technological companies. Leader in Technology for the Improvement of Travel Experiences, Hitachi Rail It is one of them. For this ambitious project, the company has Alveaan avant -garde supervision platform that revolutionizes stations management offering a Functional coordinationwith macrocomands, and exchange of subsystem data and video analysis, through a unified user interface.
With comprehensive operational processes, guide operators through digitized procedures in each step of the process. It also covers all subsystem capabilities required at the Operations Control Center: Automatic Traffic Supervision, Energy Systems, Station Assistants and Tunnel Ventilation.
It also includes Passenger informationaudio and physical security system; It offers intelligent alarm management, support tools for decision -making oriented energy and Intelligent regulationas well as a better situational consciousness by real -time detection of passenger and crowds based on computer vision.
Thanks to technological and digital advances, railway stations are directed to a new concept that Place the user in the center of a place that not only goes to take a train. In which commercial and leisure services are offered, with direct access to several multimodal nodes and where the traveler will optimize his waiting times and transfer in a comfortable and safe environment, knowing that, in addition, it is compatible with the objectives of the European Green Pact .
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