Philippe Gauderon - Articles and news items

Siemens to equip most of the Swiss Federal Railways network with ETCS system

Rail industry news / 9 September 2011 /

Siemens is to equip 9,000 of the total 11,000 automatic train control elements in the route network of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) with the European Train Control System (ETCS) type Trainguard 100. The order is worth a total value of around 125 million euros. The contract covers the conversion of the existing train control system to ETCS Level 1 Limited Supervision and the maintenance of the existing signaling system for 25 years. The system will be delivered in eight geographically defined implementation phases in the period between 2012 and 2017.

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Taking the ‘action not reaction’ future approach

Issue 4 2010 / 4 August 2010 /

Most of the SBB rail network is in good condition. That was the conclusion of an external survey commissioned by SBB and published in February 2010. Future maintenance and renewal of the rail infrastructure will cost significantly more than was previously assumed. SBB Infrastructure has embarked on a comprehensive action plan designed to meet the increased requirements. Philippe Gauderon, Head of SBB Infrastructure and Member of the SBB Management Board, summarised the task ahead as follows: “In future, ‘action not reaction’ will be our motto.” (more…)

In the view of Philippe Gauderon, Head of SBB Infrastructure

Issue 4 2009, Past issues / 21 July 2009 /

Mr. Philippe Gauderon took up his new position as Head of SBB Infrastructure and Member of the SBB Management Board at the start of 2009. After studying law at the University of Fribourg, Mr. Gauderon initially worked as a lawyer until 1985. Between 1985 and 1995, he held numerous senior positions at the Swiss Federal Office of Transport (FOT), including that of Deputy Director from 1990 to 1995. Mr. Gauderon joined SBB in 1996 as Director of what was then District 1 in Lausanne. When SBB was restructured as part of reforms to the rail system in 1999, Mr. Gauderon took over as Head of Regional Services in what was then known as the Passenger Traffic Division, where he was also a member of the divisional management board. In October 2003, he was made Head of Operating and Deputy Head of the Passenger Traffic Division.

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The Kaizen method for SBB

Issue 4 2006, Past issues / 28 July 2006 /

Rolling stock maintenance at SBB AG has been affected by a number of trends: increasingly fierce competition, rising pressure on costs, Europe-wide overcapacity, increasingly heavy use of rolling stock with each timetable change, and ever shorter idle periods. Against this backdrop, there is a pressing need to deploy existing resources more efficiently and thereby improve productivity. SBB Passenger Traffic has set itself the goal of raising productivity at Operating Maintenance by 20% within three years and to shorten rolling stock throughput times by 30%.

SBB has a passenger fleet of 330 main-line locomotives, 63 multiple units, 251 self-propelled cars, 456 driving trailers, 2,650 passenger coaches and 58 shunting locomotives. Each day, 1,143 long-distance trains cover a total of 190,752km and 3,212 regional-service trains cover 144,755km.

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