Against the backdrop of the rail transit industry’s transformation toward intelligence and efficiency, the integrated application of new technologies, new materials, new equipment, and new processes has emerged as the main breakthrough. Innovation practices triggered by the real demands of projects have constructed a three-in-one innovative technological system of "urban rail cloud brain decision-making, full travel chain services, and comprehensive station operation support". Besides that, by concentrating on the core functional modules and utilizing multi-technology integration and process optimization, no less than the upgrading of rail transit operation and services are fully supported.
The innovation moves in this domain are focused on a three-in-one technology system of "urban rail cloud brain decision-making, full travel chain services, and comprehensive station operation support". On the basis of the information connection of "people-vehicles-stations-lines-networks", an intelligent service and management system for the entire travel chain is established.
The priority is given to breaking through the three core key technologies:
Data sharing technology with a unified platform architecture to open up information silos;
Multi-source integrated passenger service technology that is customer-oriented throughout the travel process;
Station management and control technology based on crowd perception collaboration to guarantee operational safety.
By the technology breakthrough, the business linkage is realized and a service model of "online-offline integration and self-service-manual complementarity" is created to respond to the varied requirements of passengers.
II. Main Functions: Two Core Modules Driving the Intelligent Upgrade of Rail Transit
(I) Data Service Platform Based on the Urban Rail Cloud Brain: A "Data Hub" Breaking Information Silos
The data service platform based on the urban rail cloud brain is the main hub for the implementation of intelligent decision-making in rail transit. Using a unified information platform, it employs AI technology in a wide range of scenarios to help the upgrading of intelligent operations and passenger services thus effectively dismantling the information barriers between the old business systems.
The traditional systems have all the time been kept apart by difficulties in interface interconnection thus leading to passenger information being released late. To the contrary, the platform regards data sharing as the main task, merges big data technology for deep information mining and visualization, and establishes a cross-system collaborative management system. From a technical point of view, the platform is able to integrate multi-source heterogeneous data and is prepared for data communication in different businesses; it also offers unified access interfaces based on a cloud-native architecture which thus increases data sharing efficiency considerably.
(II) Full Travel Chain Service for Passengers Based on Multi-Source Information Fusion: An "Intelligent Steward" Covering the Entire Journey
In order to solve the problems of multi-source heterogeneous passenger information sources and the bad scalability of traditional systems in rail transit, the project has established a full travel chain service technology system to implement IoT perception, linked control, and smart operation.
This system uses IoT and digital twin technologies and has a three-layer architecture:
The IoT Perception Layer gathers the actual data coming from station facilities;
The Data and Intelligent Service Layer gets, processes, and interprets multi-source data, thus creating a unified model and indicator system;
The Application Display Layer through smart terminals provides the transformed data as services such as ticketing and operation status thus overcoming the "fragmentation" issue of the traditional services.
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
1. When and where will the Expo be held?
Next, the exhibition will take place from the 13th to the 15th of May, 2026 at the Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center (XICEC), Hall C, Xiamen, China.
2. What is the exhibition size?
The exhibition alone is set to cover an area of 40,000 m², with the number of participating companies reaching nearly 350 and the total professional visitors' pool coming from the whole world and counting more than 30,000.
3. What activities are there?
Upwards of 80 professional forums and events will be held for discussing such issues as smart mobility, transport communication, safety, and sustainable development.
4. How many countries and regions will participate?
The representatives from more than 80 countries and regions will be present, thus it will be the worldwide meeting platform for next-generation Intelligent Transportation Innovation.
5. Are there collaboration opportunities?
Certainly. As an Expo with more than 1,000 partners globally, business collaboration, technology exchange, and investment opportunities can be found there.
6. Who can I get in touch with for more details?
If you want to find out more, by getting in touch with the Organizing Committee through the "Contact Us" page of the official website, you may accomplish that.
