Safety has always been the rail industry's top priority, and now more than ever it is essential to develop new solutions that go beyond expectations and meet evolving challenges.
Global demographic shifts like urbanization and demands for improved comfort must be balanced with operators’ responsibility to keep passengers moving and safe from pandemics like COVID-19. That’s why we are developing solutions to maintain social distancing with adjustable vehicle layouts and smart tools for passenger flow and crowd control, to facilitate increased sanitation measures with innovative surface treatments, to install contactless interfaces, and to filter harmful pathogens from vehicle's internal atmosphere.
These are some of our latest solutions that give passengers the confidence they need to continue choosing reliable, safe, and sustainable rail travel as their preferred mode of transport for their daily commutes as well as long-distance travelling. At the same time, we are raising the bar on rail safety without compromising on efficiency, performance or the premium travel experience that passengers have come to expect from our vehicles, systems and services.
Our cloud-based, data-driven solution helps rail operators maintain social distancing for their passengers while at the same time improving operational efficiency. By delivering accurate real-time data, we empower operators with the information they need to adapt their fleet’s operations and accurately predict train occupancy and demand in an environment of limited space.
In turn, mobile apps put this information at passengers’ fingertips, giving them the ability to better plan their journeys and respond to travel changes or disruptions with confidence.
Bombardier Transportation’s passenger flow and crowd-control solution equips operators with the necessary information to make informed decisions about their fleet’s operation.
It removes the guesswork from fleet management by systematically consolidating and analyzing key information from a range of sources including rail vehicles, station infrastructure, ticketing and open-source data, to give operators both the big picture and granular data they need to stay ahead of challenges.
Operators can also leverage this data to improve the passenger experience. By providing real-time info on capacity, arrival and departure, passengers can manage their own social distancing and travel comfort by moving to a less-crowded car or choosing an alternative route.
In the control room, our digital solution gives operators real-time access to all the necessary fleet information and statistics needed to predict and respond to fluctuating passenger flow.
Equipped with this insight, operators can adapt train schedules, increase frequency, adjust capacity, manage dwell times and reduce delays.
In addition, the integrated task manager acts as an enhanced decision support system for the operator. By offering recommended actions, this feature helps maintain control during peak hours, periods of heavy activity, disruption or manage challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our tool also supports train staff with real-time journey information via a mobile app.
For each journey, the app can display the current passenger occupancy level for individual train cars as well as predictions for upcoming stations. This helps estimate the time needed for passenger boarding and exit so operators can efficiently manage dwell times and avoid delays.
In addition, the data can be used to maintain an even occupancy level on the train by enabling the train attendant to make announcements as to how, when, and where passengers should relocate.
The mobile app provides passengers with easy access to all necessary travel information. It presents passengers with the best travel connections, up-to-date departure platforms and times and even helps them maintain social distancing by showing the real and anticipated occupancy of the various cars. It also supports mobile ticketing.
Want to easily understand how our cloud-based, data-driven solution for optimized passenger flow and crowd controls works? Watch this short video on the key functionalities and main benefits.
Our antiviral filter for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems is a smart and efficient solution for rail transportation that is immediately available. Its quick, easy and safe installation makes it ideal for newly designed trains and retrofitting existing fleets.
The filter does not only capture the virus carriers, but also eliminates the virus. This makes our air filtration solution unique on the market. The effectiveness of the filter has already been tested in laboratory environment.
Our antiviral HVAC filter catches and kills viruses, including the coronavirus (99.9% effective against coronavirus).
It follows a two-step approach:
It is a dual laminated foam filter with double coating:
Our filter has been rigorously tested in third-party laboratories (certified International Organization for Standards (ISO) 17025), proving it is 99.9 per cent effective against the coronavirus. Performance and efficiency are sustainable over the lifetime of the filter, as per ISO 18184 version 2019.
Bombardier is currently testing its antiviral HVAC filter on two ELECTROSTAR train fleets in the UK:
To ensure social distancing on mass transit lines with high ridership, operators must increase train service. With automatic train operation technologies, trains can run more frequently, while ensuring maximum reliability and availability. Our advanced CITYFLO 650 CBTC solution enables headways as short as 75 seconds and is proven to increase capacity up to 50%. We are continuously investing in our signalling technologies to upgrade the frequency on train lines even further, and thus accommodating increased passenger numbers.
To reduce the chance of spreading the virus via surface transmission, we have designed automatic doors that operate hands-free. Door controls are replaced with motion sensors. This allows passengers to get on and off the train without touching a door button.
These automatic doors also help optimize the passenger flow at stops, and thus reducing dwell times at stations.
To stop the growth of microbes throughout the train’s interior, we also offer antibacterial surface treatment as well as hand sanitizer dispensers that can be mounted throughout the train.
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