Easy to use for all
The Rail Technical Strategy (RTS), identifies five priorities that are key to the future of the railway and require a step change in the technical solutions. This webinar, the first in a series addressing each of the five identified priorities, will focus on ‘Easy to use for all’.
Improving the overall experience and accessibility is essential to make rail the mode of choice for a much broader range of journeys and play an important part in enabling a more inclusive society. The ‘Easy to use for all’ priority sets out the industry goals to deliver an excellent travel experience to regular and occasional passengers, thanks to dependable real-time information, innovative payment methods, and improved solutions for accessibility.
With a keynote address from Anthony Smith, Chief Executive, Transport Focus, join us to explore a selection of activity underway in this space and engage with this RTS functional priority and its routemap in more detail.
We invite you to explore the RTS content for this priority here.
Register above to join us in discussing key issues that need to be addressed if we are to achieve our goals. The webinar link will be sent to you in the confirmation email.
The webinar will be recorded and there will be opportunities to ask questions throughout the webinar and a discussion element.
If you would like to submit any questions before the webinar, please do so by emailing us at: events@rssb.co.uk
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Background
Britain’s railway must increase the speed at which research, and innovation is conducted and put into action to improve performance and reduce costs. This will be vital to attract customers back to the railway in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. The requirement to invest in forward–looking technical solutions from development to successful deployment is more prominent now than ever before.
Senior rail leaders from across the industry have reaffirmed their commitment for the shift needed in innovation set out in this latest edition of the Rail Technical Strategy (RTS). This RTS identifies five priorities that are key to the future of the railway and require a step change in the technical solutions used:
Visit the RTS website to find out more: www.railtechnicalstrategy.co.uk
