Category: Railroads
Railroads market research reports by IDC
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The Role of the Future Railway Mobile Communications System in Managing Railway Transport Networks in Asia/Pacific
The Role of the Future Railway Mobile Communications System in Managing Railway Transport Networks in Asia/Pacific The Future Railway Mobile Communications System (FRMCS) is being developed as a replacement for the GSM for railway (GSM-R) by 2030. The leading adopter of GSM-R in Asia/Pacific is the ... Read More
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Road to the Future Railway
Road to the Future Railway This IDC Market Note discusses the evolution of smart railway systems toward the next generation. It has been 21 years since the first smart railway communications system, GSM-Railway (GSM-R), was commercialized. In the ensuing year, several key train control systems have ... Read More
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Advanced Route Monitoring Solutions in Railway
Advanced Route Monitoring Solutions in Railway This IDC study looks at advanced fiber-based and Light and Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)–based route monitoring technologies used in railway operations. Railway communications infrastructure has been deploying industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for ov ... Read More
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Railway Station of the Future
Railway Station of the Future This IDC study investigates the role of industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), 5G, fiber optics, cloud, and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) technologies in the evolution of the train station of the future. The increasing pace of urbanization across both ... Read More
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Building the 5G Smart Railway with mmWave
Building the 5G Smart Railway with mmWave This IDC study looks at the potential and status of 5G mmWave technology for train and trackside vehicle-to-X communications. mmWave, due to the high frequency nature of 30GHz–100GHz, presents significant engineering challenges in high-mobility applications ... Read More
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The Role of IIoT in Railway Communication Infrastructure
The Role of IIoT in Railway Communication Infrastructure This IDC study looks at the role of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in the development of railway communications infrastructure (RCI). Railway communications infrastructure has been deploying IIoT for over 15 years by utilizing multiple l ... Read More