(ANSA) – MILAN, JUN 16 – The new frontier for rail transport in Europe is 5G, said the CEO of Bai Communications Italia Luca Luciani, who illustrated the Group’s interventions on the underground network to ANSA. London, followed by those already made in the USA and Canada in New York, Toronto and San Francisco Bay.
According to the ‘Global Connectivity Report 2021’ produced by Bai Communications, which collected the opinions of over 2,500 public transport customers in New York, Sydney, Toronto, Hong Kong and London, 91% of passengers believe that “uninterrupted mobile coverage above and below the ground – explains Luciani – is a characteristic of a world-class city “. Furthermore, the majority of passengers (93%) are “in favor of government investments in new and reliable wireless and fiber optic networks for transport”.
The CEO of Bai Communications Italia claims that “89% of the passengers interviewed would be in favor of investing their city in a 5G network, compared to 83% in 2020”. Finally, almost all respondents (95%) believe that “the evolution of the network thanks to connectivity and artificial intelligence of data can offer better transport services”.
In Great Britain, Bai Communications is supporting Transport for London in an infrastructure project aimed at “transforming the world’s oldest underground network into a state-of-the-art connected system”. In particular, interventions are planned in 137 stations, in 400 km of tunnels (200 in one direction of circulation and 200 in the other) with 80 thousand micro-stations and ‘Iot’ sensors and 200 thousand km of fiber laid. An intervention that the Group intends to propose also to France and Italy, where Luciani has started “technical meetings” to evaluate possible interventions. These include the cabling of the metropolitan networks of Rome, Naples and the Rfi railway network. In the latter case, the technology was developed by Mc Laren for Formula 1 and has already been successfully tested in Canada, to ensure the connection to trains traveling over 250 per hour. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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