For rail and other transportation industries, the fourth industrial revolution ("digital industry") promises continuing acceleration of innovation on both the supply and demand side.
From the manufacture of rolling stock to how rail operators serve their customers, new technologies will lead to entirely new ways of doing business. Disruption of value chains will reach unprecedented levels too, driven not by a few proprietary standard setters, but instead percolating up from the most agile and innovative in an interconnected world of “makers” as well as consumers.
