Tender process
Tender process
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October 2022 - April 2023
Summary
Summary
Railway projects in Europe use a tender process to promote fair competition and transparency. It allows national or private companies to bid, ensuring the best efficiency and quality of services, based on multiple aspects like robustness, maintenance cost, while also considering the image and growth of a region.
Our objective was, in relation with the region, to determine their needs and present them a coherent operation and maintenance of their fleet while ensuring a national reach with a properly fitted social, economic and environmental approach.
For confidentiality reasons, neither the region nor the provided input and and generated output data can be provided in any way.
My responsibilities
My responsibilities
Create a coherent comfort strategy depending on the attributed lines and the customer base;
Conceive a robust operational and maintenance timetable to ensure the highest reliability, reaching upwards of 98%;
Develop an application to generate indicators; help files and conventional images of the operational and maintenance timetables;
Provide meaningful indicators to display the efficiency and robustness of our bid;
Suggest an engaged CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) commitment in accordance with the ambitions of the region.
Technical details
Technical details
Context
Context
The region of Fluẞerde, in Listenburg, wants to open some of its lines to the competition. Starting with the lines:
Lurenberg - Bassballen - Virgolken (electrified, 200 km/h)
Margrethen - Bassballen - Lustenau (electrified, 120 km/h)
Bassballen - Nöchst (not electrified, 120 km/h)
For clarity sake, the example used is deliberately simple. The actual process and application works for more concrete cases on the scale of entire regions.
Functionalities
Functionalities
Creation of train path plots by line for visualization of the timetable;
Separation of groups by color to highlight the type of rolling stock to use;
Chose the groups according to electrification, speed and adapted comfort level (modifiable by the user);
Indication of the paths of other groups departing from each station to cross the routes and optimize the fleet;
Creation of the operational (paths taken by a train) and maintenance timetable diagram for every train of the fleet;
Highlight the trains in Simple Units and Multiple Units with consideration of the order in the convoy;
Use of a color palette specific to each model to visualize rolling stock compatibility (AGC, BGC);
Check the compatibility between the rolling stock and the line (electrification, platform length, ...);
Display the length of maintenance period, even for maintenance performed overnight ;
Add indicators on the time and percentage of daily and annual usage and maintenance;
Ability to highlight a rolling stock on each path to view the route. Allows visualization of off-peak periods to include maintenance, optimize usage, or lease rolling stocks to other regions;
Visualize the maintenance periods and train position at all times;
Creation of simplified track occupancy diagrams. Allows proper dimensioning of the maintenance infrastructures as well as a better distribution of maintenance between the different maintenance centers owned by the region;
Generation of additional help files (transition and maintenance assistance, indicators, ...);
Compile plots and timetables on an intuitive graphical interface;
Add keyboard shortcuts and features to improve navigation;
Create logs to indicate any inconsistency on the input data (station skipping, inconsistent paths, electrification problems, rolling stock incompatibility, ...);
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