Industries · Transport

Physical access governance for transport

Infrastructure managers and the operators on their networks, across rail, road, ports and airports. Key2XS connects the IAM you already run to the keys on both estates.

Hundreds of kmone governed line
< 2 hrsstandard integration, live
99.99%around-the-clock operations
NIS2 + CERtransport named explicitly
Who we serve

Infrastructure and service providers

Across rail, road, ports and airports, transport splits in two: those who run the infrastructure and those who operate on it. Key2XS governs the keys on both sides.

Infrastructure

Rail, road, port and airport infrastructure

The fixed estate: unmanned installations along networks, around harbours and across airfields.

Relay housesTraction substationsTunnel servicesControl cabinetsPerimeter gatesQuay and apron cabinets
Service providers

Railway companies, public transport and terminal operators

The operational estate: depots, workshops and terminals, run around the clock by crews and contractors.

DepotsWorkshopsYardsStation technical roomsTerminalsFuel farms
Two estates, one governance model: access follows the identity on both.
The problem

Where a key is a safety issue

Whoever can open a relay house or a tunnel service door is close to systems that keep vehicles moving and people safe. Four realities work against knowing who that is.

Layered contracting

Main contractor, subcontractor, night crew. Key registration lags at every layer.

Night windows

A crew needs one section for four hours; the key works for months.

A linear estate

Assets stretch along hundreds of kilometres, so keys are broad by design.

Incident questions

After a disruption, authorities want answers in hours, not after a week of reconstruction.

Every gap between who should have access and who can get in is a gap in your safety case.

How it works

Access that follows the identity

Middleware between your IAM and the key systems on your infrastructure. Follow one corridor project through four events.

Possession window active
Infrastructure · the line Service providers · depots and stations

Audit trail
23:58:41GRANTrelay-house-km42project corridor-west
23:58:41GRANTtraction-sub-w12project corridor-west
23:58:42GRANTtunnel-service-zuidproject corridor-west
04:59:30REVOKEpossession, line 4window closed, auto
04:59:30LOGline reopenedrights withdrawn
18:00:07REVOKEall sites (16)project end, all layers
18:00:07LOGevidence sealedaudit chain
chain intact · tamper-evident
CER and NIS2

A query, not a reconstruction

Transport is explicitly in scope of both directives: CER for the resilience of physical infrastructure, NIS2 for policies governing access to premises. The practical test is simple.

Who held access to this relay house, on this date?Any location, any date, on whose authority.
Did the subcontractor crew lose access at project end?At every layer, automatically, logged.
What changed here in the last year?One tamper-evident trail. Minutes, not days.
Mechanics

Governance that survives being offline

A relay house along the track sees a key long before it sees a network. Rights travel with the key, and a withdrawal is enforced at the next key update.

How rights travel

Control planethe decision
The keycarries the rights
The lockno power, no network

The next time the key is used or updated it picks up its new rights. Revocation propagates the same way.

What happens on withdrawal

Right withdrawnin the control plane
revocation window
Enforced at the keynext update or check
Closed by the key system's own offline logic
Validity expiryBlacklist checkOnline update

Near real time, not instantaneous. Each key system closes the window with its own mechanism; Key2XS makes the decision centrally and logs the change.

Works with what you run

Identity decides. Policy governs.
Technology executes.

Middleware through standard interfaces. Locks, keys and the locking plan stay as they are.

Identity side
SailPointCertified partner Microsoft Entra ID Okta One Identity Manager OpenText Identity Manager
Key2XS

Identity decisions become access rights, with evidence.

Locking side
iLOQ ASSA ABLOY CLIQeCLIQ · PROTEC², certified ASSA ABLOY AccessASSA ACCESS · ASSA CUMULUS · ASSA PULSE ASSA ABLOY Traka
FAQ

Transport, answered

We are a service provider, not the infrastructure manager. Is this for us?

Yes. Key2XS governs the keys you hold: depots, workshops, yards and station technical rooms, for your own staff and your contractors. Access follows your IAM either way.

Can access be limited to a project or work package?

Yes. Access rights follow the assignments in your IAM system. A project registration with an end date produces access that exists exactly as long as the work does, and every change is logged.

Much of our maintenance is done by subcontractors. Does that work?

Yes. Anyone registered in your IAM, including contractor and subcontractor staff, can be governed the same way. Access follows the registration, so it ends when the engagement ends, regardless of the layer of contracting.

Can we answer incident questions quickly?

Yes. The audit trail shows for any location who held access rights at any moment, on whose authority, and when rights changed. Questions that used to take days of reconstruction become queries.

Do we have to replace our locks or keys?

No. Key2XS is middleware. It orchestrates access rights through the standard interfaces of your existing key systems: iLOQ, ASSA ABLOY CLIQ, ASSA ABLOY Access or Traka. Locks, keys and the locking plan stay as they are.

How long does implementation take?

A standard integration is live in under two hours, through pre-built connectors, with no custom development required from your team.

See it trackside

A guided walkthrough of how identity, policy and physical keys come together along the line and in the depots.