Digitalization and innovation
- Real-time data exchange platform: With the Instant Dynamic Data Integration (IDDI) project, DB Regional is taking the next steps towards becoming a data-driven organization. Efforts are geared towards using operational data effectively and distributing it between important DB Regional applications. IDDI has been a central event streaming platform for real-time data exchange within DB Regional for 15 months now. New data sources have been successively connected during the term to date – as of the end of June 2025, a total of 28 partners are connected.
- New digitalization strategy: DB Regional developed a new digitalization strategy in the first half of 2025:
- Twelve digitalization target images with a time horizon of 2030+ describe how the achievement of technical target images from the specialist departments and the regions can be actively supported through digitalization measures. Collaboration models are used to structure various forms of cooperation and task distribution within DB Regional between the CIO department, the specialist departments and the regions when it comes to implementing digitalization measures.
The digitalization strategy establishes the framework for a modern, adaptive IT organization at DB Regional that is aligned with the requirements of the business and the strong regions.
- On-demand transport: In the first half of 2025, ioki GmbH recorded about 1.3 million passengers on its on-demand platform. One highlight is the KIRA project: the first journeys with test users started in May 2025. KIRA is testing autonomous on-demand public transport services. ioki is the technology partner and supplies the ride-pooling software and the routing algorithm. Twelve national and international projects were completed in the area of mobility analyses and concepts, including for the SMILE24 region and in Aschaffenburg.