The targeted use of modern technologies and digital strategies is a decisive success factor for transport operators to meet rising demands for efficiency, innovation, and sustainability.

Do these top challenges in the mobility sector sound familiar?

  • Shortage of skilled workers and loss of institutional knowledge
  • Growing need for workforce competencies
  • Stalled innovation and automation
  • Lack of data management and cyber security
  • New mobility models challenging existing system architectures

Our solutions and concepts for your future

Strategy and IT consulting for transport operators

From strategy to procurement decisions

We support you in:

  • Developing or sharpening your individual system and IT strategy
  • Accurately assessing technology trends such as VDV 435, IoM, AI, or cloud-native architectures
  • Prioritizing projects and evaluating them in terms of cost-effectiveness, value, and feasibility
  • Creating decision foundations for procurement, tenders, or system changes

Technological solutions for the mobility of tomorrow

Solutions for architectures, integration, standards, and security

We assist you with:

  • Selecting and implementing modern, modular architectures
  • Integrating third-party providers and mobility services such as MaaS, on-demand services, and shared mobility
  • Implementing data platforms, real-time systems, API gateways, or data brokers
  • Adopting open standards such as VDV 435, GTFS, SIRI, or ITxPT
  • Meeting cyber security requirements in line with ISO 27001, NIS2, and more

Development, implementation, and modernization

From custom software to data strategy

We help you:

  • Develop custom software and implement cloud-native applications
  • Implement proprietary products such as the “adesso Data Platform” as a transport data platform for operators
  • Modernize existing systems
  • Develop data strategies, data governance frameworks, and role model definitions (e.g., RBAC)
  • Build data pipelines, real-time data processing, and analytics platforms

Flexible IT resources for your projects

From team augmentation to outsourcing

With us, you can bridge resource and know-how gaps precisely, for example through:

  • Temporary reinforcement of your project teams with experienced IT experts
  • Outsourcing individual IT services such as operations, maintenance, and monitoring
  • Coaching and training employees in relevant technologies and methods
  • Supporting critical phases such as system migration, rollout, or testing

The operational control system of the future – where is the journey headed?

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Comprehensive and tailored for your future-proof transport operation

Public transport system landscape and architecture

  • Strategic consulting and target architecture for modular, future-ready public transport IT landscapes.

Platform and system integration

  • Design, build, and operate modern cloud and Kubernetes architectures for modular public transport IT systems.

Data engineering and data platforms

  • Build transport data platforms, ETL pipelines, and real-time architectures for analytics, AI, and process optimization.

Cybersecurity and regulatory compliance

  • Consulting and implementation of IT security requirements, such as NIS2, including risk analyses and security designs.

IT service providers and project support

  • Provision of business and IT resources for consulting, business analysis, requirements engineering, development, operations, and DevOps – internally and externally.

AI, IoT, and innovation

  • Identification and implementation of data-driven use cases with AI, IoT, and edge technologies in public transport.

Tendering and procurement

  • Support with IVöB-compliant procurement: from the requirements specification to the scoring matrix through to the award.

What SBB says about working with us


Step-by-step digitization of rail production

“The newly assembled team realized a user-centered Minimum Lovable Product (MLP) within nine months, enabling quality and efficiency gains in operations. adesso brought the skills needed to shape a high-performing team comprising SBB and adesso employees.”
Marc Dettwiler, Product Owner, Team Galileo, SBB
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