Volume 69 Number 6 Technologies to Achieve Smarter MobilityAchieving Safe and Comfortable Mobility and Urban Spaces
Amid the emergence of a variety of environmental challenges for society, railways that provide intercity travel with low CO2 emissions and the elevators and escalators that move people around inside ever taller buildings have become essential for people’s lives. This issue of Hitachi Review describes the latest trends and efforts relating to Hitachi’s railway and building systems.
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Driving Global Growth by Overcoming Societal ChallengesStrategies and Future Plans of Hitachi Group’s Mobility Business
In choosing to pursue its Social Innovation Business, Hitachi has been active in providing better social infrastructure and the resolution of societal challenges. To address the acceleration of measures to overcome the societal challenges, Hitachi has restructured its business and has set out to enhance social, environmental, and economic value.
Creation of Designs in Harmony with People and SocietyDesigns that Enhance Experience Value to Deliver Comfortable Mobility
Hitachi’s Global Center for Social Innovation – Tokyo is undertaking its design work on the basis of an experience design approach that addresses such issues as user satisfaction and experience value. Hitachi Review spoke with designers to discuss such matters as the design concepts they use, how these are put into practice, and their plans for the future.
Create Building Spaces that Enhance QoLUse of Digital Technologies and the Future of Smart Buildings
Amid all changes in people’s values and in the nature of societies and companies, the question arises as to what the buildings of the future will be like and how they will deliver value to global society. For this article, key people engaged in operations and R&D talk on the future of building systems.
GLOBAL INNOVATION REPORT
Innovation to Drive Transport Solutions for All
Hitachi’s Effort Using Inclusive Design
Hitachi has a refocused approach on passenger-centric rolling stock design. Designing products that are adaptable to those with diverse usability issues is central to Hitachi’s vision for the future. By applying an “inclusive design” approach, new value can be added to any product or service that people interact with, while delivering benefits to society.
FEATURED ARTICLES
Advanced Railway Systems through Digital Technology
The impacts of global warming are becoming increasingly marked worldwide. This is causing expanding demand for railways as a highly efficient means of transportation resistant to environmental impacts. From 1921, Hitachi has created various types of products and services in the railway market. This section presents Hitachi’s railway systems using advanced digital technologies to support safe and secure mobility, together with rolling stocks and services to make train journeys comfortable.
- Hitachi’s Globe-spanning Railway Business and its Development Strategy
- New Seibu Limited Express Train 001 Series Laview Harmonized with both Urban and Natural Surroundings
- Development of High-Effi ciency Drive System with All-SiC Inverter and High-Effi ciency 8-pole PMSM
- Catenary-free Streetcar with On-board Li-Ion Battery System
- Heavy Haul Freight Transportation System: AutoHaulAutonomous Heavy Haul Freight Train Achieved in Australia
- Development of Traffi c Management System for Tozai Line of Kyoto City Subway
- Trial Installation of Guide Robots and Digital Signage at Takanawa Gateway Station
- Prospects for OS&M Business in Hitachi’s Railway Business
Building Systems to Enhance Value for People, Cities, and Society
The global population is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, with more than 68% of this total living in urban areas. In developed countries, where aging demographics pose problems for society, the elevators and escalators that facilitate movement inside buildings have become essential. This section describes the latest technologies and activities of Hitachi relating to the elevators, escalators, and associated systems, including solutions that suit the lifestyle imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
- Elevator Retrofit Business for Existing Buildings in China
- Workspace Solutions that Deliver a Better Experience for Office Workers
- Non-touch Solution Services Using Image Analysis System
- FI-700 Elevator Management System Featuring Human Flow Prediction for Comfort of Travel Inside Buildings
- Combining People and IoT to Implement Smart Maintenance System and Future Plans
- Elevator Modernization Products from Hitachi that Meet Diverse Customer Needs
