The Station as a Living System: How SNCF is Building the OS of Sustainable Mobility

Stations handle millions of journeys every day, but their potential as intelligent infrastructure has gone largely untapped. By layering AI and real-time data onto physical infrastructure, SNCF is building a "station OS" — a connected operating system that optimizes passenger flows, reduces energy consumption, and coordinates operators, citizens, and services in a shared urban space. How does a legacy infrastructure giant become a platform for open innovation and sustainable mobility? And how do you attract the tech talent to build it — when your product is a train station?