Rail investments expand
upward and outward.
Far from just connecting disparate locations, railways are an essential driver for local, regional, and even national economies. Though road and air travel have quickly overtaken rail in terms of raw passenger numbers, today's railways still serve a vast base of tourist, commuter, and citizen customers—as well as providing important logistics links across geographies.
With McKinsey Global Institute estimating global rail investment will need to reach US$4.5 trillion by 2030. it's clear that the only way is up for rail infrastructure. But rail investment will always spread outward as well-encompassing rail development as well as the diverse and complex roads, freight hubs, warehouses, maintenance facilities, parking, hotel, and retail spaces that make up today's rail networks.
More investment, more project pressure.
Four key drivers are generating significant new investment in rail networks:
These diverse investment drivers demand a vast and varied range of projects.
Managing this complex portfolio presents a range of challenges to rail developers.
Keeping rail projects on track.
With rail development portfolios often containing complex, multidecade projects, they can present a range of obstacles.
The first hurdles come at the planning stage. How do you prioritize what needs building, and decide where to build it? When projects are often interlocked across longer improvement programs, prioritization requires you to carefully consider deadlines, budgets, and resource capacity.
Once building commences, there are risks to mitigate, schedule expectations to meet, and field and delivery teams to enable. Excelling in all these areas demands a single version of the truth that offers real-time visibility of all aspects of all projects.
After a project has been completed, the work is still not finished. Assets must be maintained over their entire lifecycle, and the pressure is on to ensure productivity stays high throughout that lifecycle—even during maintenance.
Manage megaprojects with EPPM.
Enterprise project portfolio management solutions can help simplify rail portfolios across the entire project lifecycle; from planning and building, to postbuild maintenance phases.
Designed to enhance visibility across complex, interconnected portfolios, EPPM can offer real-lime dashboards that give contractors, field teams, stakeholders, and project managers alike the data they need.
With the right EPPM platform, you can optimize every stage of every project, and deliver rail improvement programs that enhance the passenger experience—and the economy:
Plan smarter with full breakdowns of resources, and deep
what-if scenario modellingBuild more efficiently by giving all teams the real-time data they need to succeed
Operate over the long term and manage maintenance cycles across the portfolio
Manage megaprojects with EPPM
Enterprise project portfolio management solutions can help simplify rail portfolios across the entire project lifecycle; from planning and building, to postbuild maintenance phases.
Designed to enhance visibility across complex, interconnected portfolios, EPPM can offer real-lime dashboards that give contractors, field teams, stakeholders, and project managers alike the data they need.
With the right EPPM platform, you can optimize every stage of every project, and deliver rail improvement programs that enhance the passenger experience—and the economy:
Plan smarter with full breakdowns of resources, and deep
‘what-if’ scenario modellingBuild more efficiently by giving all teams the real-time data they need to succeed
Operate over the long term and manage maintenance cycles across the portfolio
Able to integrate with ERP and other financial systems, EPPM is designed to help you deliver the largest, most complex, and most impactful project under budget—and ahead of deadlines.
COSEA successfully makes 5,500 decisions a day with Oracle Primavera.
COSEA was set to design an ambitious rail expansion program, adding 300 miles of new rail to the north-east of France.
Understanding the scale of the projects, the 5,500-person team used Oracle Primavera to ensure it could comply with the environmental requirements applied to rail infrastructure projects in France. Thanks to Oracle Primavera, the 50 schedulers on the team knew they were all looking at the same source of information—helping them make the most-informed decisions throughout the project.
With a single source of truth for the entire project, every decision could instantly be considered in the context of other elements of the project. So the team knew if an excavation job would impact health and safety administration, site management, or soil survey operations. This helped COSEA optimize scheduling and resource allocation across the entire portfolio.
Oracle solutions were instrumental in helping us to plan and control simultaneous excavation and construction, manage regulatory documentation and site plans, include restricted areas for protected animal species directly into building plans, and monitor and invoice resources.
Bruno Chiumino,
Chief Information Officer,
COSEA
Learn more about EPPM for rail infrastructure projects.
EPPM solutions like Oracle Primavera are transforming how rail companies approach critical infrastructure projects.
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