Urban mobility plays an integral role in building sustainable cities and communities enhancing quality of people’s lives. As a prominent leader in rail and urban transportation both globally and in India, Hitachi Rail brings together its 360° array of mobility services to provide passengers, operators, and cities with an innovative approach to monitor, manage and navigate urban landscape. Driven by its long heritage of advancing sustainability, Hitachi Rail offers an integrated and sustainable mobility ecosystem, capable of contributing to the achievement of prosperity and people’s wellbeing in balance with natural capital.
Delivering a Sustainable, Safe, and High-Quality Railway Business
As a part of the Hitachi Group, our rail business is committed towards becoming a climate change innovator, striving to achieve carbon neutrality within our own operations by 2030, and across the entire value chain by 2050.
Our pioneering smart mobility solutions are helping cities and operators to reduce costs, carbon emissions and congestion, whilst also providing more options and convenience for passengers.
- Rolling Stock
- Digital Signalling and Systems
- Smart Mobility
- Service & Maintenance Solutions
Sustainability Advantage
- Reducing Carbon Footprint- Our electric propulsion system and a combination of battery, 100% electric or hybrid technologies, reduce GHG emissions and air pollutants compared to traditional diesel-powered trains.
- Eco-Designed Products- Hitachi Rail builds trains that are increasingly energy efficient with up to 95% of materials being recyclable at the end of a trains’ lifecycle. We became the world’s first train manufacturer to attain the rigorous PAS 2080 carbon reduction standard for the design, manufacture, and operations of the 100% electric HS2 fleet.
- Smooth Travel Experience- Hitachi Rail focuses on reducing noise and vibration levels in our trains, minimizing disturbances for a seamless passenger experience.
- High Reliability, Low Maintenance- Hitachi Rail's Perpetuum on-board condition monitoring system combines artificial intelligence and analytical tools to detect onboard faults or vibrations enabling high reliability, reduced maintenance, and increased availability of rolling stock.
- Decarbonizing with Battery Trains- Enabling discontinuous electrification with battery technology can help network operators to reduce infrastructure costs while reducing reliance on diesel. Hitachi Rail’s battery trains provide the blueprint for thousands of kilometers of unelectrified railways worldwide.
Sustainability Advantage
- Increased Network Capacity- Augment safe and better ride comfort as well as shortened and dynamic train headway to increase overall network capacity, thereby optimizing resources.
- Optimized Train Movement- Real-time monitoring and control of train movements allow for smoother acceleration, braking, and speed adjustments, thus minimizing energy consumption and lowering carbon emissions.
- Enhanced Safety- Digital signalling systems can incorporate advanced safety features, such as collision avoidance and obstacle detection, reducing the likelihood of accidents and their associated environmental impacts.
- Data-Driven Decision Making- Data collected from digital signalling systems can inform long-term planning and policy decisions aimed at making the entire transportation network more sustainable and efficient.
Sustainability Advantage
- Smart Ticketing: Our solutions enable passengers to use their mobiles for travel planning and payment across multiple modes of transport, including new 'hands-free' travel which is ticket-free, thus reducing paper waste and carbon footprints.
- Electrified Mobility: The solution fortifies the growing e-Mobility ecosystem with e-Bus fleet battery and depot charging transformation services such as route optimization of e-Buses according to energy consumption, as well as smart charging parking lots for commuter EVs.
- Traffic Flow Management: The 360Motion can simulate traffic patterns and optimize traffic flow in real time. By minimizing congestion and reducing idle times, vehicles consume less fuel and emit fewer pollutants.
Sustainability Advantage
- Maximize Product Lifecycle- Asset management minimizes service disruptions, ensuring trains operate at peak efficiency, and reducing the need for emergency repairs or replacements.
- Passenger-Friendly Services- Passenger information systems, CCTV coverage among others enhance security and convenience for passengers, contributing to making rail the preferred transportation option.
Enabling Modal Shift - Strengthening Passenger Transport
Reducing the total volume of road and air passenger journeys powered by fossil-fuels is a crucial in reducing carbon emissions.
Through its partnership with Indian Railways and Metro operators in pioneering rail projects, Hitachi Rail is striving to make rail the preferred choice of travel for the masses of India.
Hitachi’s Key Mobility Projects Powering Sustainable Mobility:
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Noida Metro: Fulfilling the Dreams of Millions with Seamless Connectivity - Hitachi
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Enhancing Kolkata Metro: India’s First Underwater Metro Project - Hitachi
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Digitalizing Indian Railways - For Safer & More Efficient Mass Mobility - Hitachi
