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.
Target 11.2 By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons.
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.
With over a century of expertise, Hitachi Rail delivers a complete portfolio of smart, energy-efficient rolling stock across Commuter, Intercity, High-Speed, Tram, Monorail, Driverless, and Battery trains on a global scale.
Leveraging its expertise in OT and IT technologies, Hitachi Rail offers its proven Traffic Management System, Signalling & Train Control System in European Rail Traffic Management System/European Train Control System (ERTMS/ETCS), Satellite Positioning, and Communication-based Train Control (CBTC) for Automatic, Driverless & Unattended Train operations.
Hitachi’s Lumada Intelligent Mobility Management suite is an innovative and unique offering, built for passengers, public transport operators, and cities. It aims to help facilitate cost optimization, a congestion free world, and carbon emission reduction. The suite includes smart mobility solutions such as multi-modal passenger smartphone app – 360Pass, and an analytics platform that allows the operators and municipalities to optimize public transport networks in real-time – 360Motion.
Hitachi Rail provides pioneering Service & Maintenance solutions for both rolling stocks and signalling installations, delivering best-in-class services that support customer operations and improve passenger experience.
“Hitachi Rail is committed to becoming a Climate Change Innovator, creating low-carbon, sustainable solutions to decarbonize transport around the world in transition towards a Net Zero society. By strengthening railways, the arteries of sustainable mobility and lifeline of India, we are propelling the nation towards a greener future by connecting communities, curbing emissions, and fostering a world, where progress rides hand in hand with environmental stewardship.”
Mangal Dev
Head - Hitachi Rail India & South Asia, & Director, Hitachi India Pvt. Ltd.
“By applying its suite of Smart Mobility solutions, Hitachi Rail strives to improve how public transport systems serve passengers across the entire journey, encouraging citizens to shift travel behaviours. Hitachi Rail designs, builds, and operates trains and offers a bouquet of other mobility solutions – giving people the opportunity to choose travel that is sustainable, as well as quick and convenient.”
Manoj Kumar Krishnappa
Director and Head, Hitachi Rail STS India Pvt. Ltd.
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.
Railways is one of the safest and eco-friendly modes for transporting freight.
The ambitious Dedicated Freight Corridors – Eastern and Western Corridors (DFC) project initiated by the Government of India will play an integral role in putting the nation on a more environmentally responsible growth trajectory, helping to achieve carbon neutrality in the long run.
Hitachi Rail India is partnering with the Indian Railways in driving the success of the Western DFC project and in achieving the modal shift of reducing carbon footprints through greener railway solutions.
