Julian Roling
/ Digitale Schiene Deutschland
Digitale Schiene Deutschland
Client Digitale Schiene Deutschland (DSD) is Deutsche Bahn’s initiative to modernise rail operations with digital signalling/control (e.g., ETCS, digital interlockings), automation (ATO) and data-driven traffic management. Its goal is to run more trains on the existing network with better punctuality, reliability, capacity and efficiency. DSD stands for innovation-led modernisation, customer-focused quality improvements, and close partnership-based delivery with industry.
Goal To present their projects to stakeholders and the general public the DSD needed an CMS that was easy to use yet versatile. The aim was to make managing content for the website an intuitive, understandable process for editors of all experience levels while fostering a positive brand image.
Role UX/UI-Design | Accessibility Expert
Creating a project map
To provide an comprehensive overview over their projects throughout Germany, we created an interactive map, that lets users explore these on their own terms through an graphic representation. In addition to contributing to the creation of the map, I worked on making the map fully accessible according to WCAG 2.2 standards.
Explaining a complex system
The whole range of technologies that are under development by DSD are shown in an interactive informational graphic. This way, the whole extent of the projects and their implications for future railway infrastructure are made visual in a concise manner.