With the help of startups, we want to support innovations in the core business, but we also want to test out new services at the first and last mile, build and develop smart cities, or quite simply make travel even more pleasant for customers. The focus is not only on mobility and rail travel in general, but also on the fields of logistics, real estate, retail and infrastructure.
SBB has also defined clear focus areas with the aim of further developing the company in a more targeted way. The intention is for startups to play a role in driving forward SBB and the whole of Switzerland in these fields:
Creating mobility offerings and hubs by integrating mobility, space and technology.
Focus:
Human-centered integration of mobility, spatial development and new technology with economic benefits for a new railway concept based on the simulation of social and transport policy changes in scenarios. Illustration of railway concepts down to the operations level.
Key questions:
How do we travel in 2050? Approaches of future railway concepts with an optimal integration into the intermodal travel chain will be simulated. How can SBB conduct integrated and intelligent planning in terms of optimum for customers, SBB and the overall system in order to combine space and mobility planning with new technologies?
Increasing the productivity of the railway system incl. resource deployment.
Focus:
Capacity optimization and use of rolling stock, rail infrastructure and buildings, simple and reliable personnel planning.
Key questions:
How can SBB reduce overall system costs, increase capacity and utilization, and maintain safety and reliability? How can the SBB reduce the peak traffic times of the rail system?
Creating a competitive freight railway system.
Focus:
Digital transformation of the SBB freight transport system.
Key questions:
How can SBB build an intelligent, competitive and connected freight logistics system? How can the current freight transport system be transformed? What is the role of SBB in city logistics?
Optimizing maintenance timing and work for rolling stock and assets.
Focus:
Optimized control of maintenance using fleet- and asset status data and more efficient, actual maintenance work. Making condition- and diagnostic data available in central Fleet Control Rooms.
Key questions:
How can the MDBI be increased? How can the operational maintenance windows be optimally used and optimized for maintenance work and how can the actual maintenance work be carried out more cost-efficiently?
MDBI = Mean Distance Between Incidents (for example 40‘000 km per).
Fostering first and last mile of the public transportation system.
Focus:
Exploration and knowledge acquisition regarding the integration of new modes of transport throughout the mobility chain.
Key questions:
How can SBB integrate new modes of transport such as on-demand shuttle, eBike, eVTOL, eScooter etc. into the Swiss railway network in order to optimize the journey across the entire mobility chain?
Offering seamless mobility.
Focus:
Connecting and integrating the most diverse transport services and providers in a common customer interface.
Key questions:
How can SBB develop a customer interface in which travel can be created and designed individually across different providers?
Managing Switzerland’s mobility system.
Focus:
Potential clarification of a comprehensive traffic control in Switzerland for the steering of the combined mobility (rail and road). The goal is a better and faster traffic flow.
Key questions:
How can the largely decentralized road traffic be linked to the highly controlled railway system in terms of control technology?
Protecting Life and Property.
Focus:
Promoting safety in the railway system as a whole through increased use of digital and technical innovations.
Key questions:
How can SBB further increase the safety of people (customers and employees), goods and infrastructure? How are new innovative digital and technical instruments as well as physical / process-enabling instruments optimally developed and deployed?
