Upgrading railway -opportunities and challenges

of digitalisationPeter Söderholm

Program Upgrade Railway

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Presentation outline

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Activities, subjects and application

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Risk manager

STA

20092001 2003 2005 2010 2013 2021

PhD

O&M

LicEng

QualityMSc

MechE

Associate

Professor Quality

Adjunct

Professor Quality

2011

Program

Upgrade Railway

Business Area

Maintenance

Luleå university of technology (LTU) Swedish transport administration (STA)

LTU STA

Work TC56

Dependability

Member TC56

Dependability

SEK SEK

Research

Development

Standardisation

Dependability

Quality

Risk

Land - Railway

Air - Aircraft

Information - IT

JVTC

Upgrading the railway system

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2050

1E+17

“Moore’s Law” – opportunity

2021

Program

Upgrade Railway

2050

Roadmap

upgraded railway

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Digital innovation and

transformation to bridge gap

REGULATION

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“Martec’s Law” - challanges

ERTMS – the largest upgrade of the

Swedish railway in modern time

“Totally renovating and upgrading the house while living in it and expecting a good quality of life”

Interoperability within Europe

Digitalisation for future possibilities, e.g. high speed, moving block and Automatic Train Operation (ATO)

Improved dependability

• Eliminate risk of shortage (competence and parts) for legacy systems (e.g. manual and Automatic Train Control, ATC)

• More robust infrastructure and traffic (e.g. reinvestment and investment that eliminates maintenance backlog (end of life)

• Decreased complexity of the infrastructure (and increased complexity of vehicles)

• Replacing functionality in the infrastructure (H/W) with logic in a traffic control cloud (S/W)

• From 750 to 160 interlocking areas (from one to five stations per interlocking)

• Moving functionality form the infrastructure to vehicles (e.g. signalling, TIMS and DAC, but also monitoring and test)

• Transferring signalling cost (and control) from infrastructure (managers) to vehicles (owners and operators)

• Industrialised building of infrastructure

• Increased standardisation and reduced variation (e.g. signalling packages)

• 100<1000 % capacity increase (number of interlocking areas per year through changes in technical and traffic regulations)

• 10<100 % reduction of lead time and cost for converting an interlocking area (e.g. supplier and building contracts)

• 1<10 % reduction of cost on national level through considering low hanging fruits in existing technical regulation

• Increased necessity of coordination of task in the infrastructure (“bucket planning” in a line perspective), cf. process industry.

• Not only signalling, but also track, power and communication

• Shorter life cycles of functional parts, e.g. more software and electronics, but also increased cost of changes in all parts

• Signalling packages – baseline and continuous improvement of technologies, methodologies and regulations (for

interlocking areas) including requirements management and change control

• Increased requirements on information and cyber security

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Organisation for upgraded railway system

Strategic steering group

upgraded railway

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National train

control

Program

Upgrade railway

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Technical

platform

Program

ERTMS

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assignments

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assignments

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assignments

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New main lines

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assignments

Other signalling

activities

Line organisation

Route-planning

of infrastructure

tasks

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Digitalised train

path service

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assignments

Evaluation group

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Triple loop learning

Double loop learning

Single loop learning

• Context (theories)

• Innovation improvements

• How to decide what is right

• Shewhart, Juran, Taylor, Nowlan & Heap

• Assumptions (standards)

• Effectiveness improvements

• Decide what is right

• ISO, IEC, ITU

• Actions (regulations)

• Compliance (e.g. CSM)

• Efficiency improvements

• Doing things right and better

Innovation and transformation

Thank you!

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Peter Söderholm

Business area: Market and planning

Program Upgrade Railway

PhD operation and maintenance engineering

Associate and Adjunct Professor quality management and technology

peter.soderholm@trafikverket.se

Mobile: + 46 10-12 38 167; +46 76-792 53 85

Trafikverket

Box 809

SE-971 25 Luleå

Sweden

Visiting address: Sundsbacken 2-4

Phone: +46 771-921 921

www.trafikverket.se

A modern and efficient transport system is sustainable

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• Transport system planning for roads, railways,

shipping and aviation

• Construction, operation and maintenance of State

roads and railways

• Procuring inter-regional public transport

• Shipping aid

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Board of Directors

Director-General Lena Erixon

9,000employees

150different professions

North

Central

Stockholm

West

South

East

Business volume 2020

74,646,000,000

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Board of Directors

Director-General

Deputy Director-General

Director-General’s Office

Safety & Security Function

Purchasing and Logistics

Legal Matters and Plan Review

Finance and Control

Strategic Development

HR Communications

Internal Audit

Market and

Planning

Traffic

ManagementMaintenance Investments Major Projects

Information and

Communications

Technology

Driving Tests

Training and

Education Centre

Road Ferries

Vehicle Management

BUSINESS AREAS

CENTRAL

FUNCTIONS

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New Main LinesPROGRAM

PROFIT CENTRES

98,500km State roads

16,500bridges

20tunnels

2,000road safety cameras

800weather stations

14,200km of track

562stations

11,500switches and crossings

4,200bridges

200tunnels

40ferry routes

82ferry berths

Railway Ferry Road

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National plan 2018–2029

SEK 125 billionmaintenance, railways

SEK 164 billion maintenance, roads

SEK 333.5 billiondevelopment

SEK 90 billion funds from congestion

charges, loans, infrastructure

fees etc

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