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Innovation at Alstom

Driving mobility towards new perspectives

As a creative pioneer in rail mobility, our experience drives us to look at things differently. We're constantly adapting because we look at the world with fresh eyes and a new perspective. We take the century of embedded knowledge we have accumulated from our legacy and apply it to new solutions for the future. Because the one thing we can all be sure of is that the world is constantly changing.

Leading the charge: Alstom's vision for a greener, smarter rail industry

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Our mission is to lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide.

With solid demographic growth, rising urbanisation, and growing environmental and health concerns supported by legislation or consumer behaviour, sustainable transportation will remain a focus as the sector remains a significant contributor to worldwide emissions. From reducing environmental impact to improving the passenger experience, innovation in the rail industry is making a difference. The rail industry is more than just trains and tracks: it serves the noble cause of decarbonising transportation and positively impacting society.

At Alstom, we understand what moves people —anywhere, everywhere.

We’re explorers, creative thinkers, researchers, and pioneers. We’re curious and keep our eyes and minds open, exploring mobility in every way to push forward, to move the world and discover new paths. We create new or improved solutions for our customers and passengers from new ideas. We push the boundaries of what is possible because we don’t believe in the impossible. It’s how, in 2007, we captured the world record for a conventional wheeled passenger high-speed train —reaching a speed of 574.8 km/h.

Innovation is a collective journey.

Innovation is a collective journey and responsibility towards sustainable mobility and a low-carbon and bright future. It is a strategic driver of the Alstom in Motion 2025 strategy.

Video player: TGV M Avelia Horizon test run Velim

Our mission is to lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide.

With solid demographic growth, rising urbanisation, and growing environmental and health concerns supported by legislation or consumer behaviour, sustainable transportation will remain a focus as the sector remains a significant contributor to worldwide emissions. From reducing environmental impact to improving the passenger experience, innovation in the rail industry is making a difference. The rail industry is more than just trains and tracks: it serves the noble cause of decarbonising transportation and positively impacting society.
At Alstom, we understand what moves people —anywhere, everywhere.

We’re explorers, creative thinkers, researchers, and pioneers. We’re curious and keep our eyes and minds open, exploring mobility in every way to push forward, to move the world and discover new paths. We create new or improved solutions for our customers and passengers from new ideas. We push the boundaries of what is possible because we don’t believe in the impossible. It’s how, in 2007, we captured the world record for a conventional wheeled passenger high-speed train —reaching a speed of 574.8 km/h.
Innovation is a collective journey.

Innovation is a collective journey and responsibility towards sustainable mobility and a low-carbon and bright future. It is a strategic driver of the Alstom in Motion 2025 strategy.

80K+

employees

22K+

engineers, including 11K+ digital engineers, and 5K+ engineers dedicated to R&D

10K+

patents

Innovation in the now, innovation for the future

Customer and passenger needs are constantly evolving. By keeping an eye on trends impacting the business, our customers, and the passengers, we try to anticipate new market expectations to create innovative solutions for more sustainable, attractive and affordable rail systems. At Alstom, we’re on a collective journey to change mobility. We’re making it smarter. We’re making it greener.

Innovation is in our DNA. We believe in people development, project development and innovation for everyone by everyone.

All our employees are encouraged to bring their creative ideas and experiment with new ways of thinking and working. To keep up and to stay one step ahead, we lean on our engineering and global expertise, boosted by our diverse and multidisciplinary community of internal innovators from across the company to collect, generate, share and support ideas that we can then take from ideation to incubation, acceleration to implementation.

An innovative mindset is an entrepreneurial mindset. Our strong culture of innovation nurtures our teams' creativity and innovation initiatives through innovation races and the company-wide campaign, I Nove You™.

We tap into this collaborative spirit and have multiplied our partnerships with our customers, suppliers, peer companies, universities, academic and research centres, start-up companies and companies from other industries to foster and accelerate innovation through open collaboration. At Alstom, we innovate to deliver operationally today and transform mobility.

Whitepaper series: Innovation at Alstom

TGV M, the 5th generation TGV from Alstom’s Avelia range, a collaboration between Alstom rolling stock experts and customer TGV-Intercités divisions of SNCF Voyageurs
The rail electrical system centre of excellence in Toulouse, a joint undertaking by Alstom, supplier Safran, and IGE+XAO
Alstom’s partnership with KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, for the development and innovation in smart and green mobility
Railway automation connecting Delhi, Luxembourg, Stuttgart and Hamburg
Collaboration with startups and sharing our innovations at VivaTech 2023