AI Keeps Railway Moving: Huawei and Partners Jointly Release Two Innovative Rail Solutions, Building an Alliance for Going Global

[Shanghai, China, September 18, 2025] At the Global Railway Session held during HUAWEI CONNECT 2025, Huawei and its partners jointly announced two innovative solutions: Intelligent Scheduling of Train Operation and Urban Rail Smart Station. Together, they also released the program for helping these solutions go global. The new solutions integrate Huawei's core technologies in connectivity, computing, and AI. They are designed to enable customers to achieve closed-loop management across sensing, decision-making, and execution, marking a new stage of intelligent rail transportation.

"As a key node in the comprehensive transportation system, railways are transforming from traditional to next-generation infrastructure," stated Ma Yue, Vice President of Huawei and CEO of Huawei's Smart Transportation BU. "By integrating railways with roads, aviation, and waterways, we are creating a seamless logistics network that connects vital hubs like customs and ports, ultimately building a more efficient and cost-effective comprehensive logistics system. This will drive the rail transportation industry to become more intelligent, secure, and efficient."

Ma Yue, Vice President of Huawei and CEO of Huawei's Smart Transportation BU

Yune Marketatmo, CEO of Surge in Indonesia, noted that their mission is to provide affordable and high-quality connectivity to everyone, including 25 million households, 10 million SMEs, and 100,000 schools. However, a significant portion of the country's residents and enterprises are located along railway lines. He emphasized that their mission cannot be achieved alone. For this reason, Surge teamed up with Huawei in a partnership that goes beyond technology—it is rooted in a shared mission and execution capability. Looking ahead, the two parties will continue to collaborate in key areas such as networks, 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), data centers, and cloud services. Through this partnership, they aim to build bridges of connectivity for millions of households and enterprises, ensuring that the benefits of digital transformation reach all the people of Indonesia.

Yune Marketatmo, CEO of Surge

The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) in Malaysia has been equipped with Huawei's Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS), representing not only a major corporate collaboration but also a flagship project under the Belt and Road Initiative. According to Wong Kook Foong, this forward-looking decision ensures that when the line opens in 2027, it will not require complex or time-consuming system migrations. The new standard delivers a minimum cell-edge bandwidth of 2 Mbit/s—nearly a thousandfold improvement over GSM-R—and enables emergency call setup in less than two seconds. Beyond supporting critical train control services, this broadband network powers a wide range of innovative applications like railway IoT and HD multimedia information release. These capabilities lay a solid foundation for AI services and significantly elevate operational security and efficiency.

Wong Kook Foong

12306 is China's official online ticketing platform for the national railway system. Over the years, it has undergone six major evolutions to become the world's largest real-time ticketing platform, serving over 4 billion passenger trips annually. During his presentation, Wang Jianxiong, Technical Director of 12306 Science and Technology Innovation Center at China Railway, emphasized that digital and intelligent technologies are emerging as key drivers of China's modernization. Through in-house technological breakthroughs such as asynchronous transaction queuing and distributed in-memory computing, 12306 has made overnight queuing for tickets a thing of the past. AI-enabled innovations—including electronic ticketing and intelligent customer service—have improved passenger experiences with truly seamless travel. Leveraging its R-MaaS platform, 12306 now connects with air, road, and water transportation systems, expanding the integrated rail-tourism ecosystem. Its ticketing technologies have also been successfully introduced to countries such as Laos, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka, establishing 12306 as a model of digital soft connectivity under the Belt and Road Initiative. Moving forward, 12306 will continue to uphold its commitment of "railways for the people" by advancing all-scenario intelligent services, including itinerary planning powered by large models and virtual customer assistants.

Wang Jianxiong, Technical Director of 12306 Science and Technology Innovation Center at China Railway

The rail transportation industry will experience a projected 25% increase in global passenger traffic and a 100% surge in freight volume over the next decade. "In response to the rapid traffic growth, more than half of global railway enterprises have begun adopting cloud computing and AI applications," said David Xu, Director of Smart Transportation BU Solution Development I&V Dept, Huawei. "Riding the wave of AI, Huawei has strategically introduced the concept of 'Go Broadband, Go Cloud, and Go Intelligence' into the rail transportation business architecture. We aim to achieve more convenient transportation, multiply transport capacity, and increase operational revenue."

Specifically, in terms of passenger transport, business-travel and station-city integration has enhanced travel experiences by making journeys more efficient, convenient, and comfortable. This approach helps stimulate passenger flow, which in turn increases ridership and revenue growth. In the freight sector, the railway industry is transforming from a traditional freight organizer to an end-to-end logistics service provider. This shift upgrades the business from transportation production to comprehensive logistics, enhancing both business models and transport capacity. "Huawei is working with customers and partners to create a digital and intelligent foundation for railway AI agents through broadband, cloud, and intelligent technologies," added David Xu. "This foundation is designed to meet the high standards for security, efficiency, and service experience in railway passenger and freight transportation, driving the industry's high-quality and sustainable development."

David Xu, Director of Smart Transportation BU Solution Development I&V Dept, Huawei

Xie Yanliang, Co-founder and Solution Vice President of AllCam, spoke about how the company has partnered with Huawei to develop the smart station CV solution. Leveraging the Linglong foundation model, the solution reconstructs service and management modes for each scenario in minutes. It turns ideas into algorithms, empowering every individual to act as a professional engineer. This innovation is propelling the rail system toward a future of zero faults, high resilience, and all intelligence.

Xie Yanliang, Co-founder and Solution Vice President of AllCam

Li Jinzhao, Vice General Manager of Sefon Software, highlighted that integrating state-of-the-art technologies into core railway services will bring greater intelligence to train dispatch operations. The company, together with Huawei and Southwest Jiaotong University, launched the Intelligent Scheduling of Train Operation Solution. This solution revolutionizes traditional dispatching, which relies heavily on manual experience. Instead, it enables dispatchers to easily cope with various delays and exceptions caused by complex problems, significantly enhancing safety, punctuality, and service quality. The result is greatly increased efficiencies in railway operations brought by intelligent technologies.

Li Jinzhao, Vice General Manager of Sefon Software

At the end of the event, Raymond Zuo, CEO of Huawei's Smart Rail BU, Todd Sun, Vice President of Huawei's Smart Transportation BU and Director of the BU's MKT & Solution Sales Dept, along with six partners jointly released the innovative solutions and the program for going global. United by a shared vision, they are working together to accelerate the large-scale adoption of new solutions and foster innovation in scenario-based applications. They will employ novel ICTs to enhance safety and transport efficiency across the rail industry, improve passenger and freight transport experiences, and deliver greater value to customers worldwide.

Solution release, from left to right: Raymond Zuo, CEO of Huawei's Smart Rail BU; Chen Xuzhong, Vice President of Beijing Railway Institute of Mechanical Electrical Engineering; Li Jinzhao, Vice General Manager of Sefon Software; Li Jingyang, Vice President of Overseas Sales at HMN Technologies; Xie Yanliang, Co-founder and Solution Vice President of AllCam; Zhang Zhaojun, General Manager of Chinasoft International Transportation Business Line; Yu Yong, Executive Vice President of Jiaxun Feihong; and Todd Sun, Vice President of Huawei's Smart Transportation BU and Director of the BU's MKT & Solution Sales Dept

So far, Huawei has helped more than 300 urban rail lines across 70 cities and over 180,000 km of railways across the globe deliver all-new experiences for passengers.