by Future Transport-News
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5 Sep 2022
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New Report Highlights Future Role of Connectivity in Passenger Transport as Onboard Wi-Fi Usage Surpasses Pre-Pandemic Levels
Icomera, the mobile connectivity specialist, and subsidiary of EQUANS, world leader in multi-technical services, has published a new report highlighting the trends and challenges shaping the future of passenger transport, and the role connectivity will play in achieving the industry’s overarching goals.
Through its core competence of providing fast, reliable wireless connections to moving vehicles, Icomera is now seeing record Passenger Wi-Fi usage levels on trains – 134% of pre-pandemic levels – as new and returning travellers look to use their journey time more efficiently – contributing towards their day, and not disrupting it.
The report looks at factors that will influence the way we travel over the next decade, from pandemics, global conflicts, and climate change, to ageing populations and the blurring of boundaries between the physical and digital worlds.
“The future of transport will not develop in isolation. It will be important to understand the interplay between every area of smart connected modern living as it evolves.”
Supported by data and insights gathered from transport authorities, operators, and technology companies around the world, the report posits that the transport industry needs to simultaneously pursue three objectives to attract passengers in a post-pandemic world, and meet the increase in demand that comes from shifting society’s travel habits further towards sustainable, green mobility:
As a digital partner of many of the world’s leading transport operators, Icomera supported numerous innovation trials and technology upgrade programmes through the pandemic, aimed at keeping pace with society’s shifting approach to travel.
While Passenger Wi-Fi has historically been the most obvious application for ‘Internet on board’, the report also examines the potential of other connected applications, based on real-world deployments over the last 24 months. Examples cited include:
“Today we’re connecting more passengers to onboard Wi-Fi than ever before, but we are only offering them a glimpse of the many ways in which the industry will serve them in the years to come.
“One thing that many of the technologies and strategies underpinning the future of travel have in common is the importance of, and reliance on, real-time or on-demand access to information for all parties – Restoring confidence from door to destination, making every ride time-efficient for the passenger, and cost-effective for the operator.
“With an increasing number of onboard devices or systems requiring connectivity, the increasing value of the data they generate, and the increasing importance of its timely availability, ensuring the reliable and secure transmission of the data that all these systems generate and utilise, to and from the moving vehicle, is key.”
This article was originally published by Icomera.
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