Driving Innovations in Transportation
Certain trends will impact the transportation industry’s major segments, including truck/bus, automotive, marine and rail. Emissions standards, electrification, smart/connected vehicles, and autonomous vehicles are some key developments that will alter the way the industry advances and influence how engineers approach their work.
Transportation Trend Highlights
TRUCKS & BUSES
Safety, uptime and productivity are critical for heavy-duty truck, commercial vehicle and bus and coach manufacturers. Working closely with its customers to design and integrate solutions to their exact specifications, Parker provides modular systems and components that perform under extreme conditions, help improve reliability and reduce environmental footprint, while lowering maintenance costs.
RAIL
Faced with meeting stringent temperature-range, voltage-tolerance and sealing standards, rail industry suppliers can rely on Parker's decades of design and in-house manufacturing expertise, partnering from concept definition through rapid prototyping to full production.
MARINE
Customers in the Marine industry are confronted with desalinization, engine protection and fuel efficiency challenges, due to the extreme marine conditions and stringent environmental regulations. Parker's range of water purifiers, clean diesel-fuel filtration and water separator systems, as well as innovative high-pressure liquid natural gas (LNG) technologies, offer unmatched performance and reliability.
DEFENCE
Parker’s industry-leading engineers draw on the corporation’s enormous breadth of technologies to create system solutions addressing the most challenging needs of the defence industry, optimizing applications for weight, cost, power, and reliability.
MOTOR VEHICLES
Parker's pneumatic and electromechanical products and systems offer simplified installation and maintenance, improved operational reliability, direct movement control, product mounting flexibility and significant emissions reduction for motor vehicles.