Strategy and concepts
Development and implementation of competitive technology strategies in the context of the digital transformation of rail to strengthen existing or new rail infrastructure.
Highest level of expertise in formulating technology strategies and feasibility studies. Ensuring that planning, activities and measures strictly contribute to defined objectives.
The entire rail sector is in a state of upheaval. The transformation from decades, if not centuries, of conventional technologies to digital high technology is revolutionary: digitisation promises to increase capacity on existing track infrastructure – while at the same time optimising investment and maintenance costs over the entire life cycle. A major challenge in view of the complexity of the railway system. A precisely thought-out technology strategy right from the start is an essential success factor for effective transformation processes.
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With profound infrastructure and rolling stock know-how from national and international lighthouse projects, NEXTRAIL advises you on technology management from signalling technology to rolling stock. From the conception to the detailed implementation of customised strategies, processes and methods.
Our services in the area of strategy and concepts:
A successful technology strategy needs an economic and technical vision. NEXTRAIL compares the required operational scenarios and strategic objectives with the requirements profile for the signalling systems and helps to create a system master plan or use case to describe the functional requirements for the operational execution of railway operations and the systems required for this purpose.
As part of the feasibility study, NEXTRAIL analyses system construction plans and use cases with regard to their feasibility. Technologies are examined and evaluated for their suitability to the framework conditions. Risk factors are identified and the chances of success are estimated. A detailed examination spanning all technical areas is then carried out to determine whether the envisaged solution approach can be used to achieve the project objectives under the specified framework conditions. And where it makes sense to show which measures can be used to significantly improve the result.
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Advantages of feasibility studies:
- Avoiding risks and bad investments
- Identification of the optimal solution
Only in exceptional cases, such as new lines, can a target be directly implemented in railway infrastructure. As a rule, the gradual migration of control-command, signalling and rolling stock systems – of which some are decades old – is a prerequisite for achieving the desired target. No two existing systems are identical in detail. Based on many years of expertise in the migration of system architectures in the rail sector, NEXTRAIL can model processes and the development of associated procedural changes and implement transformation processes on the rails and in the rolling stocks in phases, both temporally and geographically. If required, NEXTRAIL also prepares dedicated analyses that take into account issues such as funding, load neutrality and depth of integration.
NEXTRAIL supports the introduction of new technologies by establishing efficient product management – from procurement to obsolescence management.
Staffing in technology-intensive areas of the railway sector is often a lengthy process, as qualified executives are difficult to find on the market. NEXTRAIL provides experienced managers with the appropriate expertise to bridge staff shortages.
Your contact person
Here you will find your contact person for strategy and concepts
Effective January 2023, Dr Andreas Kaldenbach became head of Railway Strategy and Consulting and a member of the Executive Board of NEXTRAIL GmbH. Dr Kaldenbach has proven himself to be a genuine railway enthusiast in management positions at Deutsche Bahn AG and has made a career as an expert dealing with challenging operational, technical and procedural issues in the railway sector.
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