Visit to VLTC Amsterdam

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Visit to VLTC Amsterdam

• Erick Wegener Sleeswijk

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Welcome at ProRail Verkeersleiding

• Dutch Rail Traffic Control
• 15 th. March 2006 Amsterdam

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Mission Verkeersleiding

• the only organisation in the Netherlands
• concerned with the operational management of
  rail-capacity for trainoperating companies on the
  Dutch railnet
• neutral, transparant, reliable

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Our clients

• all trainoperating companies (t.o.c.s)
• passengers and freight
• maintenance companies

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Our primary tasks

• traffic control
• signalling
• coordination in case of disturbance
• traffic information and realisation reports

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Primary tasks (1)

• Traffic control
• reallocation of railinfrastructure (operational
  management of the planned railinfracapacity)
• 4 geographic locations

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Primary tasks (2)

• Signalling
• providing save railcapacity / time- and
  spaceslots
• routine parts in tasks computerized
• 13 signalposts (we will visit the Amsterdam
  signalpost)

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Primary tasks (3)

• Co-ordination in case of disturbances
• general management
• alarm
• recovery of rail traffic

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Primary tasks (4)

• Traffic information and report
• informing t.o.c.s about the actual railtraffic
• recording on delays per process and t.o.c.
• providing management information on the subjects

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Secondary tasks

• actual passenger-information at the railway
  stations
• actual passenger-information to media, ceefax and
  the national public transport information service
  desk

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Some facts and figures

• /- 1400 employees
• turnover 90 million
• government payment based on number of train
  movements
• total of 70.000 train movements p.d.in NL
• signalling Amsterdam CS 1700 train movements
  per day

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Operational allocation rules

• Reliable deliverance of infrastructure capacity
• 1. no hindrance between trains of different
  t.o.c.s
• 2. non - discriminating allocation of existing
  capacity
• 3. optimal usage of infrastructure

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Preparation for mainline (re-) construction works
(1)

• Agreements made in advance for 2000-2006
• 1.always 2 main tracks available for scheduled
  trains
• 2. 4 weekends per year for main steps in
  (re-)construction plan no trains
  Amsterdam-Breukelen-Utrecht
• 3. measures in the train schedule to help
  construction works in the intervals between the
  weekends

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Preparation for mainline (re-) construction works
(2)

• All agreements are made to prevent hindrance in
  the periods between the main construction steps
• WIN WIN situation ProRail and t.o.c.s

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Preparation for the weekends(1)

• Dispatcher to be in service visits the
  discussion(s) of the construction script
• Disturbance co-ordinator to be in service visits
  the the discussion(s) of the construction script
• If dispatcher and safety leader maintenance
  company meet in advance, co-operation is always
  better

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Preparation for the weekends(2)

• Specifik information (based on the script of the
  construction work) is provided for all the
  dispatchers and announcers in service
• Dispatchers are involved in the making of the WBI
  (the rail-work-safety document)

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Working-method during the weekends(1)

• Disturbance co-ordinator acts in the ProRail
  project - decision team (possibility of direct
  use of the ProRail Railsystem Disturbance Plans)
• Fixed decision- and communication points of time
  are part of the construction script

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Working-method during the weekends(2)

• The result of this
• 1. no unexpected run-out of time or/and
  functional reductions on Monday morning
• 2. there is more time to make up alternative
  train-schedules in the period Sunday evening
  Monday morning