Transportation

Visually Reimagining Travel

As the travel sector continues to expand, transportation hubs are fast evolving to keep pace with the digital world and meet the growing expectations of today’s passengers. At the center of this trend are major facility and technology renovations that aim to add value to transportation facilities and improve the passenger experience.

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Keeping Passengers Informed

The priority of rushed travelers is to find the information they need as soon as possible—whether it’s a departure time, an update on a delay or the right track or gate. Leading-edge display solutions offer visual performance, wide viewing angles, the reliability for around-the-clock operation and can be updated in real-time to communicate any important changes. Display technologies that are compatible with emergency broadcast systems can be set up to relay urgent messages or information in specific areas or throughout a venue.

A large, overcrowded transportation hub can be overwhelming to anxious travelers. Digital wayfinding helps passengers navigate busy terminals and unfamiliar layouts by guiding them to where they need to be. Vivid, ultra-high-resolution displays are easily noticed and provide crisp and vibrant directional signage—reducing passenger stress and the bottlenecks that create confusion in high-traffic areas.

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Digital Signage for
a Captive Audience

Transportation hubs offer a golden opportunity to reach large captive audiences and drive revenue. Striking display technologies provide more impact than static signage and can capture people’s attention in active environments—informing waiting passengers about anything from retail and restaurant options in the terminal to events and attractions in the local city.

A key strategy of the modern transport hub is to minimize the anxiety of travel by fostering comfort and safety among passengers, turning extended periods of downtime into positive and enjoyable experiences. 

Solution Spotlight

Planar Simplicity P Series

The Planar® Simplicity™ P Series line of 4K LCD displays facilitates easy, high resolution digital signage streaming and media playback. Select displays have been designed to mitigate cyber security threats and are ENERGY STAR® certified. Multi-point touch models are also available for interactive digital signage applications. Displays have a sleek, slim design and functionality that thrives in 24x7 commercial environments such as wayfinding, emergency messaging, advertising and menu boards.

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Transportation Applications

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Advertising & Digital Signage

Eye-catching display technologies offer a compelling medium for advertising and digital signage across transport venues by attracting the attention of passerby and engaging captive audiences, allowing facilities to maximize ad space opportunities at key locations. Vivid, high-resolution displays designs convey more impact with ad messages—driving traffic to internal vendors and boosting revenue streams for local businesses.

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Passenger Services

Digital displays deployed as flight information displays (FIDs), gate information displays (GIDs) and baggage information displays (BIDs) serve a critical role in busy terminals by providing passengers with the most up-to-date information in the places where they urgently need it. Durable, commercial-grade FIDs, GIDs and BIDs displays featuring high brightness, wide viewing angles and 24x7 reliability deliver lasting, mission-critical performance for demanding public terminal environments.

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Transportation Control Centers

Display solutions for today’s traffic control and monitoring operations require 24x7 reliability and the latest in high resolution and image processing technology to support decision making in these mission-critical environments. Seamless video walls ensure that data and video sources are unobstructed whether used for video surveillance, traffic infrastructure monitoring or other control center applications.

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Wayfinding

Vibrant display technologies help to optimize wayfinding in hectic transport hubs by providing crisp and clear directional guidance—improving passenger flow and contributing to a more efficient venue. Newer, touch screen wayfinding applications with interactivity enhance the passenger experience in terminals by allowing travelers to easily search and locate the information they need.