In an ever-growing industry, the need to more completely understand the railway ecosystem is of paramount importance.

This demands depth, context, and cross-domain insight, precisely where Future Rail positions itself. As part of the GlobalData portfolio, the magazine is able to draw on one of the world’s most comprehensive business intelligence ecosystems, delivering informed, forward-looking content for today’s railway professionals.

The bi-annual digital offering benefits from direct access to GlobalData’s tourism intelligence research platform, providing a source of industry-leading datasets, forecasts, and geopolitical insight that takes coverage beyond the surface level and into the strategic. Editorial quality and integrity matter, and we strive to ensure that every article reflects that standard.

Within each issue of Future Rail is content curated for railway decision makers, be they project engineers, rolling stock procurement professionals, rail operator executives, policymakers, or industry stakeholders. Whether analysing market trends in passenger numbers, developments in electrification, or the growth of high-speed rail, our reporting is underpinned by the cross-sector intelligence that GlobalData uniquely provides.

What are the benefits to this approach?

This deliberate step back from the micro-level to exploring factors in the macro enables the reporters writing content for Global Defence Technology to contextualise developments within broader global trends, be it industrial capacity, geopolitical risk, supply chain resilience, or myriad other factors.

Our magazine is at home in the wider GlobalData media ecosystem, with other titles spanning technology developments in areas such as AI, energy, defence, and other areas, offering an interlinked view of industries shaping our world. Within this web, Future Rail serves a distinct purpose: understanding macro-factors shaping railway industry thinking and procurement and providing actionable intelligence to aid decision-makers.

Facing this rapidly developing industry, our role is to anticipate trends, forecast changes, and inform readers. This could be through interviews with rail operator leaders, subject-matter experts, and industry leaders, or telling a different type of story through rich multimedia content to provide a reading experience for the modern age.