Digitalization and the Transport Industry: Are we Ready?

John Easton

doi:10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020210

Digitalization and the Transport Industry: Are we Ready?

John Easton^*

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Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

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Digitalization offers the transport sector great opportunity to revolutionize the way in which it does business, enabling improved interaction with customers, the use of novel business models that span transport modes, and fine-grained control of operations in real-time. Despite the potential advantages of digitalization of fleet and infrastructure, many transport networks have been slow to embrace novel technologies; accepted thinking is that this slow response in many traditional transport settings is due to the long lifecycle of the infrastructure on which many transport networks depend, coupled with the safety-led culture that pervades the sector, but is that true? Based on the outcomes of a workshop session held as part of an industrial Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program, this paper presents an industrial perspective on the challenges posed by the digitalization of the rail network of Great Britain, with a view to stimulating debate around the common digitalization challenges facing rail and other transport modes as we move forward into the 21st century.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	3814-3820
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-8045-1
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-8046-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020210
Publication status	Published - 26 Jan 2023
Event	2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data - Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, Japan Duration: 17 Dec 2022 → 20 Dec 2022

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Name	IEEE International Conference on Big Data
Publisher	IEEE

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Conference	2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Osaka
Period	17/12/22 → 20/12/22

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This is the Accepted Author Manuscript of the following article: J. M. Easton, "Digitalization and the Transport Industry – Are we Ready?," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Osaka, Japan, 2022, pp. 3814-3820. The final published version is available at doi: 10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020210. © 2023 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
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