london underground presentation for digital railways competition event
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Presentation by London Underground at Transport KTN's information and consortia-building day in Coventry on 25th March 2013 for £5million Digital Railways r&d competitionTRANSCRIPT
April 8, 20231
“A journey through time”
Our Challenges
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TSB Digital Railway Competition
25th March 2013
Simon ChungHead of Profession, Systems Performance
Kuldeep GharatyaHead of Railway Systems Group
Agenda
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• Introduction – TfL & London Underground
• Our upgrades
• Our challenges
• Innovation portal
• Future journey
Transport for London (TfL)
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• TfL delivers its services through:• Barclays Cycle Hire• Dial-a-Ride• Docklands Light Railway• Emirates Air Line – Cable Car• London Buses• London Overground• London River Services• London Streets• London Trams• London Underground• Taxi and Private Hire• Victoria Coach Station
• A statutory body whose principal activity is the provision of safe, integrated, efficient and economic transport facilities and services, to, from and within Greater London, established under the Greater London Authority Act 1999
London Underground
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• Celebrating 150 years, we now run more services than ever before
• More than 1.1 billion passengers a year
• Around 4.1 million journeys made each day
• London Underground is a network of 11 lines serving 276 stations
London Underground - today
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800 km of track
13 depots
276 stations402 escalators
Over 4 million journeys/day,
Over 1 billion journeys/year
20 million customers
5000 signals
600 trains
Our Challenge – Demand Forecast
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• Demand is up by 24% in 10 years and 61% in 20 years
• Growth is expected to continue – another 20% by 2020
Our Upgrade Plan
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http://www.futurerailway.org/RTS/Vision/Pages/On-Video.aspx
• Forecast demand growth at a faster rate than the capacity increases delivered through our upgrades programmes • (Incl. Crossrail &
Thameslink)
Our Challenge – Deep Tube
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• LU’s deep tube lines have particular characteristics which make them unique worldwide:– Small tunnels, fixed platform lengths– Tight curvature
Infrastructure constraints: Small tunnel diameter, fixed platform lengths and widths
Line geometry: Deep level, small single bore tunnels with no side access, tight curvature, large platform gaps
Heat retention: Inadequate ventilation; rising tunnel temperatures32°C or more in summer
Open sections (‘at grade’): Extensive non-tunnel track sections; interworking with other services
Our Challenge – Heat
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• What goes in, mostly stays in
• Only way out is air79%
11%
10%
Tunnel Walls
Piston Effect
Mechanical Ventilation
Our Challenge – managing change
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Climate change creates new challenges and worsens existing problems
Changing customer demographics
Changing pace of technologies brings about new challenges and offers new opportunities
http://tfl.gov.uk/innovationTechnology Innovation Portal – here and now
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• Improve information to our frontline staff and our customer
• Deliver faster, more frequent services to our customers
• Improve physical accessibility of customer interfacing areas
• Improve use and value from the transport system
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CustomerWe want to develop innovative solutions to deliver faster, more frequent and more reliable services to our customers while improving the information provided via frontline staff as well as mobile and internet technology.
• Manage the impact of the weather on the operation of our services
• Minimise the noise associated with operation and maintenance activities
• Reduce theft from our network
• Improve energy efficiency and sustainability
• Improve asset intelligence and maintenance processes
• Share equipment across the business
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Value and sustainabilityWe want to use technology to minimise the impact we have on the environment by improving energy efficiency and reducing noise, while minimising the impact of external factors, such as weather and theft, on our services.
• Develop high performing teams and encourage collaboration
• Increase the flexibility of our workforce
• Develop a skills and capability framework in our delivery unit
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PeopleWe want to ensure that our workforce is world class by developing tools and frameworks to encourage high performance whilst increasing motivation, collaboration and flexibility.
• Drive improvements in our people, processes and technology
• Improve safety
• Improve the reliability of assets and services
• Minimise closures
• Reduce overall costs and improve programmes delivery predictability
• Improve track renewal methodology
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DeliveryWe are looking for new technologies and processes to help us achieve reliable and safe world class delivery, requiring minimal closures whilst driving for efficiencies and cost reductions.
• Predicting and preventing failures - Improve asset condition monitoring
• Design and introduce new and upgraded assets
• Improve reliability of existing assets
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Reliability and dependabilityWe want to use smart data, technology and processes to achieve world class performance with a 30% reliability improvement, by predicting and preventing failures and introducing more reliable assets.
• Improve health and safety at work
• Improve customer safety and security
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SafetyWe want to develop innovative solutions to improve customer safety and security and the safety of everyone working on the network.
The future journeyTechnology Innovation
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The Vision – a customer’s view
...augment by the maintainer’s view and the operator’s view, we arrive at the...
Journey of the future
What we need to deliver...
a “fantastic journey” every time
an “always connected” system
“behind-the-scenes” maintenance
“seamless transition” from old to new
Thank You
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tfl.gov.uk/innovation