A nationwide rail demand insight platform built using anonymised mobile network data.
RDIS provides unprecedented visibility into passenger movement across the rail network.
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The Challenge
Passenger Behaviour is Difficult to Measure
Understanding how passengers move through the rail network is essential for planning services, managing stations, and improving passenger experience.
However traditional data sources provide only partial insight.
Ticket sales, gate data, and manual surveys capture fragments of behaviour but often fail to show the complete passenger journey.
This limits the ability of operators and planners to make fully informed decisions.
The Solution
A Nationwide Passenger Movement Dataset
The Rail Demand Information System analyses millions of journeys every day, identifying patterns of rail travel derived from anonymised mobile network data.
The platform allows analysts and planners to understand how passengers move through the rail network at a national scale.
This creates a much richer picture of rail demand than previously possible.
What RDIS Reveals
The system can identify and analyse key patterns including :
- Total passenger journeys across the network
- Station-to-station demand flows
- Commuter vs leisure travel behaviour
- Average journey times
- Peak travel periods
- Origin and destination patterns
These insights allow organisations to plan infrastructure, services, and policy with greater confidence
Operational Benefits
RDIS supports a wide range of operational and planning activities.
Service Planning
Understanding real passenger demand across routes and stations.
Infrastructure Investment
Supporting evidence-based planning for station upgrades or network changes.
Passenger Experience
Identifying congestion points and areas for improvement.
Strategic Policy
Supporting national and regional transport planning.
Built for the
Transport Sector
RDIS was developed specifically for the needs of rail operators, transport planners, and infrastructure managers.
By turning large-scale mobile data into usable transport insight, the system enables better decision-making across the rail industry.
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Understand your network
like never before
like never before
