silverrail - future of rail manifesto
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THE FUTURE OF RAILMANIFESTOThe five pillars of customer experience modern rail depends on.
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Welcome to the worst-kept secret in the travel industry.
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RAIL IS ABOUT TO DOMINATE SHORT AND MEDIUM HAUL TRAVEL.
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If you’ve been in and around travel, you’ve seen the signs…
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800,000PASSENGERS
1,380,000PASSENGERS
High-speed rail is changing the game, inspiring more people to travel greater distances more often than ever before.
In its first year alone, high-speed rail in the Barcelona-Madrid corridor gained 1,380,000 new passengers – while air lost 800,000 passengers.
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QUALITY
PRICE
UNITED KINGDOM
JAPAN
ITALY
FRANCE
GERMANY
SWEDEN
New entrants in countries like Sweden, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom have blown their markets wide open with a renewed sense of competition and innovation.
Continental deregulation is bringing private players into the train market for the first time, driving prices down and quality of experience up.
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EUROSTAR NOW DOMINATES THE CROSS-CHANNEL ROUTELONDON
PARIS
The internationalisation of rail is bringing whole countries closer together and spurring on a new wave of international travel.
Eurostar now dominates the cross-channel route, carrying more passengers than all competing airlines combined.
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All of this means that rail is now primed to dominate short and medium haul travel as the mode of choice for businesses and consumers.
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This is the rise of rail.
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But there’s just one small hitch.
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12%FASTER
LONDONPARIS
Even though trains are faster than flights,
In Europe, passengers take 12% longer to get from city centre to city centre when they travel by plane.
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222%CHEAPER
Even though trains are cheaper than flights,
Across some of the most popular routes in North America and Europe, trains were found to be 222% cheaper.
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33 MORE VIRGIN TRAINSTHAN VIRGIN PLANES
050
Even though there are way more trains than there are flights,
On weekdays in the UK, travellers between London and Manchester can choose from 47 Virgin Trains – or just 14 Virgin Atlantic flights.
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25%OF THE CO2
EMISSIONS
Even though trains are just plain better for the environment,
A train between London and Glasgow gives off just 25% of the CO2 emissions that would come from an equivalent flight or car ride.
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And even though the combined benefits of trains represent one of the most important opportunities for corporate travel management today
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NONE OF THIS WILL MATTER.
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Because one simple flaw threatens to derail every advantage rail has over competing modes of travel:
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The customer experience for rail tickets is broken.
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Rail travel data is a fragmented, siloed, duplicated, disorganised, inconvenient and expensive mess.
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Travel managers and distributors have to rely on massive, unwieldy, offline operations that cost them more than the travel content they’re booking is worth.
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Companies and consumers have to pay the many penalties that come with the painfully slow, manual, hard-to-scale processes needed to plan, book and manage rail journeys.
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One thing is clear: until we figure out how to make booking simpler and more convenient than air, rail is going to be stuck in a sorry rut.
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When a market expands, the best customer experience wins.
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So as long as rail has to rely on outdated, expensive and impossible-to-scale systems and processes to discover and distribute rail tickets, the massive opportunity facing the entire industry is going to remain just out of reach.
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Travel managers and distributors will be forced to give their customers a slow, expensive booking experience.
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And rail carriers will struggle to serve the massive amounts of traffic coming their way with the old-school technology stacks that have held them back for so long.
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In short, the fastest, most cost-efficient, sustainable and convenient way to travel is stuck with the slowest, most expensive, wasteful and inconvenient way to book.
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This is the single barrier preventing the glorious renaissance of rail.
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Fortunately, it’s a barrier that can be overcome.
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If we can unite around a new set of standards for the simple, smooth and scalable customer experience the future of rail needs.
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05The new customer experience for rail depends on five things:
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05 01KING’S CROSSUNITED KINGDOM
A unified code structure for all train stations
So that every station name can be accessed and managed consistently – without duplication and redundancy – using a common language.
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0 2UNITED KINGDOM, GLASGOWUNITED KINGDOM, LONDON
BELGIUM, ANTWERPBELGIUM, BRUSSELS
AUSTRIA, VIENNAAUSTRIA, GRAZ
CZECH REPUBLIC, PRAGUEDENMARK, COPENHAGEN
FRANCE, CALAISFRANCE, MARSEILLE
FRANCE, NICEFRANCE, PARIS
GERMANY, BERLINGERMANY, LEIPZIG
GERMANY, MUNICHGERMANY, STUTTGART
SWITZERLAND, ZURICHSWITZERLAND, BERN
ITALY, FLORANCEITALY, MILAN
ITALY, NAPLES.LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG
SPAIN, MADRIDSPAIN, SEVILLE
PORTUGAL, LISBONSPAIN, BARCELONA
NETHERLANDS, AMSTERDAMNETHERLANDS, AMSTERDAM
AUSTRIA, VIENNA
GERMANY, STUTTGART
UNITED KINGDOM, LONDON
UA I EV
RG T TS
KU Q KQ
So that journeys can be planned from any station to any other station, while accounting for the millions of permutations and options in between.
A common method for indexing journeys
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0 2 03DEPART VIENNA09:15
ARRIVE KING’S CROSS LONDON 23:47
ARRIVE AT STUTTGART15:52
AUSBERG STATION12:21
EUROSTAR PARIS21:15
DEPART STUTTGART16:12
KU Q KQ
UA I EV
So that customer data and relationships can be managed with granularity, precision and responsibility.
A transparent, compliant approach to traveller and journey data
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So that the industry can begin to process transactions in a way that offers real-time routing and pricing options to travellers.
A modern infrastructure for real-time booking 04PADERBORN
PALI
PATROS
PARIS
PADINA
PA
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04 05So that a customer can get a single ticket for their entire journey, regardless of how many carriers are delivering the experience; regardless of whether that ticket is paper or electronic.
A seamless and convenient solution for ticketing
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They’re the same standards pioneered by organisations like IATA and Global Distribution Systems like Sabre, when they successfully blew the market wide open for airlines around the world.
If these criteria sound familiar to you, it’s because they are.
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AVAILABLEAFFORDABLEACCESSIBLE
It’s because of these standards that air travel has become available, affordable and accessible to millions of travellers around the world.
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Now it’s time to apply those standards to make the speed, convenience, cost-effectiveness and sustainability of rail a viable option for travellers today.
SPEEDCONVENIENCESUSTAINABILITY
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05SPEEDCONVENIENCESUSTAINABILITY
Make no mistake – a few pretty websites will not be enough to make rail travel available, affordable and accessible to international travellers.
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This massive opportunity demands a fundamental re-engineering of the underlying standards and structures that drive customer experience.
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If, as an industry, we can do this, a lot of great things become possible.
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0 2For the first time, travel management companies can give their travellers the choice to travel faster, cheaper, better, safer and cleaner.
Without sacrificing their margins for doing so.
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0 2 03And for the first time, rail carriers can scale their booking operations and meet the demand of customers and partners from around the world.
Without having to invest billions to do it.
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THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY.
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04To remodel the ecosystem of travel distributors and rail carriers so, together, we can spearhead the renaissance of rail.
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This is the rise of rail.
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04 05This is now.
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04Let’s make it happen.
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We’re SilverRail. And we’re uniting the ecosystem of rail carriers and travel distributors around the world’s most comprehensive Silver Search and managed platform for rail content.
We exist to fuel the renaissance of rail.
If you want to see that happen, we should talk.