Blog article: How digitalisation will put rail on shippers’ radar
Why isn’t rail the first choice for transport?
It’s a question that many in the industry are asking. In this blog article published by Data Edge Media, Gilles Peterhans and Rémi Lebeda from UIP dive into the structural and operational hurdles currently holding rail back from being the “default” mode of transport.
They put their fingers on digitalisation as instrumental to changing the balance and detail UIP’s own efforts with RSRD2 and GCU broker to turn the ‘black box’ that is often a rail freight wagon into a transparent, data-driven transport option.