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Issue 3 2005, Past issues / 23 August 2005 /
The task of Banverket, the Swedish National Rail Administration, to safeguard the state-owned railway infrastructure is performed with the aid of significant maintenance so as to ensure its operations achieve the transport policy goals set out by Sweden’s Government.
Maintenance is a link in securing a transport system for the general public and industry throughout Sweden that is both socio-economically effective and sustainable in the long term. Maintenance is a precondition for ensuring that the investments made will have the lifetime and outcomes that have been planned.
At present, extensive development work is in progress within Banverket aimed at increasing the efficiency of maintenance operations. In order to gain sufficient insight into the individual parts, it is necessary to shed light on how they are inter-linked to form a single entity. This entity is described in Banverket’s overall maintenance strategy.
It is also important that everyone involved in the management and direction of maintenance operations should share a common view of what is to be achieved.
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Issue 3 2005, Past issues / 23 August 2005 /
An ambitious program of improved services is underway for Swedish State Railways as it squares up to face fierce competition from land, sea and air, including other rail operators in the regional market.
Sweden was the pioneer of the vertically-separated railway model that is now found throughout Europe. Banverket, the track authority, was split off from SJ, the railway operating company, in 1988. The idea was that Banverket would be like the roads authority, with operators paying for licences to run over the railways.
A crucial difference to the later British model was that, unlike Railtrack, Banverket was not expected to earn all its money from operators paying to use its tracks; it would instead be like the roads authority in that the state would pay to have an adequate rail network.
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Issue 3 2005, Past issues / 23 August 2005 /
Despite difficulties and eight years after its start, Banverket is about to finalise the Swedish GSM-R project SIR. Problems solved have included appeals against building permits for radio sites, interaction problems between phones and the Swedish GSM-R network and difficulties achieving full system functionality according to the EIRENE specifications.
When Banverket (The Swedish National Rail Administration) started the SIR (Swedish International Railway radio) project in 1997, it did so as the first railway operator in the world and was consequently a pioneer in the area.
The Swedish GSM-R network MobiSIR (Mobiles in SIR) is now practically built out with approximately 800 sites along the entire Swedish main-line railway network, which consists of almost 500 kilometres of railway (including tunnels) out of a total of approximately 10,000 kilometres. The remaining 2,500 kilometres are low traffic lines, due to be equipped with MobiSIR during 2006 and 2007. When this sub-project is completed, all communication for railway operations will run on MobiSIR. (more…)
Issue 1 2005, Past issues / 2 March 2005 /
There have been numerous projects over the years that have aimed at improving the punctuality of trains. Different levels of ambition have met with varying degrees of success. It can be concluded that the various campaigns and projects have frequently had a directly positive effect on punctuality.
However, when the campaign or project has come to an end, the work has failed to result in any really effective and sustainable procedures with which to retain the positive effects that have been achieved. During the period following the quality improvement work, punctuality has gradually deteriorated. Quality work aimed at an improved level of punctuality has instead largely developed into being a descriptive set of punctuality statistics with information on causes of disruptions and attempts to define the problem-owner. Activities aimed at actually solving systematic punctuality problems have been sadly lacking. Being able to work with punctuality matters on a deregulated railway market requires entirely different measures. Banverket has therefore initiated punctuality improvement work in cooperation with the major rail companies that are established in Sweden. This joint punctuality improvement work has been abbreviated to PULS.
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