The Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board (RISSB) invited Matthew to keynote its annual Australasian Rail Safety Summit, where he was asked to present the Future of Rail 2070 and give the audience a deep future view of what the railways of the future will, or could, look like.
He spoke alongside industry figures who covered the future of cyber operations in the sector, interoperability, safety and skills. Matthew's role was to take the audience on a journey through the global and regional trends and technologies shaping the future of the rail industry and its ecosystem of partners.
"The future of rail is going to be anything but dull, and also anything but certain."Matthew Griffin, Australia, May 2023
He began with the rise of national and trans-continental High Speed Rail (HSR) networks, from 600kmh wirelessly powered Maglevs to the latest 2,500kmh Chinese T-Flight hyperloops. From there he moved on to the future of Web 3.0 enabled autonomous operations, the future of competition, and well beyond.
He also placed rail within the wider transport picture: new supersonic and hypersonic formats for both cargo and passengers, from aircraft and trains to rockets, alongside new AI powered transportation systems, revolutionary infrastructure construction technologies and many other innovations. His closing message was that the future of rail is going to be anything but dull, and anything but certain.
