Railway traffic control software package

Tender description

In order to deliver increased functionality in the management of train control in the South East area, Network Rail aims to deploy a Traffic Management (TM) system on the Sussex areas of the South East Route and on the East London Line to improve train performance (PPM, reliability, recovery from service perturbations, future proofing the technology used). This is proposed to be achieved through a direct contract award to Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd for the extension of the existing Thameslink Traffic Management System deployment. There are 6 geographically isolated areas (including the East London Line) covered in South East Traffic Management scheme that are small standalone sections that directly interface with the existing Thameslink Traffic Management/control area currently under contract with Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd. Adding a different TM solution within the South East Route to cover these areas would result in the introduction of multiple operational fringe/technical edge case issues that could potentially cause significant additional degradation to PPM, significant additional workload and introduction of additional potential for error in route wide train service management. This is due to service managers operating across multiple systems simultaneously and sub-optimal cross-TM system journey planning as only a limited part of the overall journeys occur in the area covered by the additional TM system.