Building back a better future for urban mobility

IT-TRANS is all about the future – and the next steps for the world of urban mobility will be what defines our cities moving forward.

The world has lived through great change during the coronavirus pandemic, with our cities facing lockdowns, restrictions, and alterations to the ways in which we move and interact.

During these times public transport has always been there, keeping our cities moving. It has also faced major upheaval, and now IT-TRANS will consider what life beyond the pandemic can look like – most importantly how to build back better to a new future.

Throughout these times, technology has continued to accelerate, and the times to come will be driven by technology.

IT-TRANS is most definitely the best occasion to debate digital development as the event focused on moving mobility forward.

By embracing digitalisation operations can be more efficient and create the very best mobility options possible with the same aim in mind: a better experience for all passengers.

Public transport must be customer-oriented and moving forward cities will become home to more people than ever before as urbanisation grows. This raises many opportunities to become more accessible and sustainable.

The world of 2022 is not the world of 2018 when IT-TRANS last gathered in Karlsruhe.

The challenges cities are facing are now different, and there are opportunities for the sector to re-evaluate what will come next. Technology will play an important role for public transport to bring back lost ridership and offer better customer experience.

That future belongs to ecological and smart city concepts that combine mobility, sustainability, and smart, intelligent concepts. If we combine all options, then we can foster innovative solutions. Digitalisation has a major role to play in this. The future will be technologically driven and digital options, and digital tools, are what people will be looking for.

Every new development within IT brings us closer to the people who benefit from these changes: every trip taken, every app used, every swipe of the travel card moves our sector forward.

From on-demand mobility and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) to autonomous vehicles and big data, technology moves fast and at the world-leading IT-TRANS Conference and Exhibition, the public transport sector will gather to exchange, discuss, and invent IT solutions and innovations that matter to the future of mobility.

As a fixture in the calendar of those working within urban mobility, IT-TRANS is the place to be to see what the future can, and should, look like. The eight edition this May will help to determine those next steps.

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