Digital & Innovation

SYSTRA integrates digital technology to deliver better outcomes across our transport, mobility, energy and environment markets. Our digital skills span data, design, systems, and delivery – supporting projects right through from early strategy to operations.

Providing a digital stack of solutions

Specialists within SYSTRA utilise a digital stack capable of supporting multiple sectors and industries. The complementary technology can be applied at all stages of our involvement ensuring that, together, we can modernise the working practices and outcomes.

Our digital solutions provide a range of data and decision intelligence through leveraging data platforms and analytics, while also enhancing automation systems, simulation and virtual testing, and systems engineering and assurance.

These products combine as part of a wider approach focused on improved efficiencies, reduced costs and new offers that create a platform to stand out from competitors. We continue to use our capabilities in digital optimisation to address challenges and overcome blockers at all stages of a project

Why is innovation important to SYSTRA?

Innovation directly improves how complex infrastructure projects and systems are conceived, delivered, and operated. Through effective implantation, it can reduce risk and ongoing costs, while boosting safety, sustainability, and overall user experience.

Our specialists focus on three channels that reinforce each other at every stage.

• Delivery-embedded innovation: Project teams apply digital methods as standard practice, continually improving workflows and outcomes.

• Centres of excellence and R&D: We develop reusable toolkits, design automation, and domain-specific methodologies that can be scaled across projects.

• Partnerships and ecosystems: Collaboration with clients, technology providers, startups, and academia accelerates adoption of emerging tech and ensures solutions are practical and interoperable.

This approach to innovation leads to full project benefits including shorter design cycles, fewer clashes and changes, clearer audit trails, and improved safety and reliability.

We place a high level of importance on our clients gaining greater transparency through dashboards and digital twins, better value and improved schedule certainty. Coupled with data-driven decisions, our solutions also offer measurable reductions in carbon and whole-life cost.