VTG introduces new digital platform

Aimed to promote transparency in rail freight transportation, VTG has introduced a new digital platform.

Hamburg-based VTG is “taking rail digitalization to a whole new level”, it said in a statement. The company is expanding its range of digital services and will be making it available in future on a platform under the name traigo. 

Dr Heiko Fischer, Chairman of the Executive Board of VTG AG, said: “With traigo, we are creating a digital infrastructure for rail freight transportation and, on this basis, offering a service that is unique in the industry.”

He added: “traigo will become our customers’ central interface for digital fleet management in the future. For us as a company, traigo represents a systematic continuation of the digitalization path that we have been pursuing for several years. We are convinced that rail freight transportation can only be a competitive option in the long term if we exploit the potential of digitalization to make the entire rail system more transparent, more efficient and easier for the customer.”

traigo will enable customers to access contract data and retrieve information about the wagons they have hired in real time, VTG said in a statement. 

There will be a digital correspondent “for the complete analog service portfolio of today”, including the online booking of wagons and a fully digital maintenance management. 

Through traigo, VTG is also offering completely new services, such as forecasted arrival times for rail freight consignments. Based on the analysis of millions of anonymized wagon movements, traigo’s transport management tool boasts the ability to predict when a freight train will reach its destination. 

The platform’s official launch is planned for the second quarter of 2020. But interested customers can test the platform and all currently available functions with their own data, free of charge.

For more information visit www.traigo.com

28th January 2020