Digital Travel Credentials: The Passport of the Future?

Global travel is not just growing; it is outpacing the infrastructure designed to support it.

Frank Schmalz, Veridos

With passenger volumes projected to nearly triple by 2045 to 9.5 billion, the systems used to verify identity at borders are approaching a structural limit. Built for a different era, today’s processes are increasingly misaligned with modern expectations of speed, scale and security.

Even with automated border control gates, the underlying model remains largely sequential and checkpoint based. At approximately 15 to 17 seconds per traveller, under ideal conditions, today’s processes already create bottlenecks.

On a global scale, this is not simply an efficiency issue; it is a capacity constraint.