This case study illustrates the story of the Modernisation of the railway line Žilina – Krásno nad Kysucou, a major infrastructure investment co-financed by the EU over the programming period 2007-2013. More specifically, this is an ex-post evaluation assessing the long-term effects produced by ...
As a starting point, it is important to remind the underlying philosophy of development of the business case. When the work started in 2015, many different opinions could be met on ERTMS, based on the experience of each and every stakeholder on his scope of work. But as nobody was willing to sha...
The S2R Programme is an integrated set of Research and Innovation (R&I) activities, structured around five asset-specific Innovation Programmes (IPs), covering key structural (technical) and functional (process) subsystems of the rail systems: passenger trains, traffic management systems, infras...
Safety culture refers to the interaction between the requirements of the SMS (safety management system), how people make sense of them, based on their attitudes, values and beliefs and what they actually do, as seen in decisions and behaviours....
The European Rail Sector has room for improvements with regard to its performance. But how exactly are the railways performing and how are they improving? Key Performance Indicators are a popular tool to measure and benchmark the performance of an organisation. They are used on the company manag...