Capacity or Performance - Either or Both?

Name: Capacity or Performance - Either or Both?
Start: 2017-11-14T08:30:00
Location: Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London

14 November 2017
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Overview

It had traditionally been thought on mainline railways there was a choice between capacity or performance: higher capacity meant compromising performance. More recently, learning from metros, it is becoming understood that high performance is a prerequisite for high capacity.

This seminar will feature case studies from key operators who have managed to do this to show you how they have practically addressed the balance between performance and capacity. Learn about best practice and the latest strategies that will help you improve the performance of your railway whilst increasing capacity.

Benefit from the opportunity to meet with experts in rail performance and planning management to discuss this pertinent problem in the engineering community and how it can be overcome.

Attend this seminar to:

Hear from those at the forefront of our industry including Network Rail, Transport for London, Western Route Supervisory Board, Northern Rail and MTR Corporation Ltd about how they are managing their performance challenges
Learn from experts in the field about how to increase your passenger capacity whilst making the most of your existing assets
Be part of the debate about the impact of the balance between capacity and performance on the future of the railway with our panel full of high level rail experts
Meet with planning and engineering directors, performance managers and heads of transport from rail operators

Key programme highlights:

Network Rail reveal how they are changing performance measurement and the consequences for performance management
Hear how to manage a metro service on mainline infrastructure from London Overground
Find out more about how to map performance in rail from MTR Corporation Ltd
Learn about the Western Route Supervisory Board’s strategy to bring track and train together through route based Supervisory Boards
Discover the new approach to reliability analysis from CPC Project Services

Key seminar speakers include:

Chris Rowley, Capacity Planning Director, Network Rail
Simon Reay, Industry Performance Relationship Manager, Network Rail
Geoff Hobbs, Head of Rail & Underground Transport Planning, Transport for London
Rob Warnes, Performance & Planning Director, Northern Rail
Oliver Bratton, Operations Director, European Business, MTR Corporation Ltd

Organising Committee

Railway Division, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Member Credits:

Iain Flynn, Independent
Dean Johnson, National Task Force (NTF) Delivery Manager, Rail Delivery Group
Andrew Skinner, Head of Engineering, Great Western Railway
Rebeka Sellick, Director, SellickRail Ltd
Malcolm Dobell, Non-Executive Director, CPC Systems

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Day 1

08:30 - Seminar Programme

	TUESDAY 14^TH NOVEMBER 2017
08:30	REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS Chaired by: Richard McClean, Managing Director, Grand Central Rail
09:00	CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS Richard McClean, Managing Director, Grand Central Rail
	THE STATE OF THE PERFORMANCE PROBLEM Chaired by: Dean Johnson, National Task Force (NTF) Delivery Manager, Rail Delivery Group
09:10 Keynote	CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE: A VIEW FROM NETWORK RAIL Chris Rowley, Capacity Planning Director, Network Rail How Network Rail and the industry currently view and assess the relationship between Capacity and Performance Insights into the critical nature of the relationship with some local route-based examples How we might evolve our approach to reflect current circumstances
09:40	STATE OF THE RAILWAY: A SYSTEM OPERATION? Chris Gibb, Independent Developing the railway as a system Remembering the customers in our industry decisions Confidence in the next generation of railway people
10:10	CHANGING THE FOCUS THROUGH CHANGING HOW WE MEASURE PERFORMANCE Simon Reay, Industry Performance Relationship Manager, Network Rail How we measure performance influences how we manage performance an judge if we are successful The journey the Rail Delivery Group has taken to shift towards On-Time and Every Minute of Lateness Counts The consequences to performance management of the strategies and the capture of increasingly detailed data on train movements
10:40	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
10:55	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
	CAPACITY’S IMPACT ON PERFORMANCE Chaired by: Malcolm Dobell, Non Executive Director, CPC Systems
11:35	LONDON OVERGROUND:A METRO SERVICE ON MAINLINE INFRASTRUCTURE Geoff Hobbs, Head of Rail & Underground Transport Planning, Transport for London
12:05	A NEW APPROACH TO RELIABILITY ANALYSIS Paul Naylor, Operations Consultant, CPC Project Services
12:35	BALANCING CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE IN FAST-GROWING REGIONAL CENTRES Rob Warnes, Performance & Planning Director, Northern Rail Can we continue to trade capacity and performance? Can we continue to grow our railway and run more reliably? What do we need to do to achieve both?
13:05	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
13:20	NETWORKING LUNCH
	SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM Chaired by: Andrew Skinner, Head of Engineering, Great Western Railway
14:20	BRINGING TRACK AND TRAIN TOGETHER THROUGH ROUTE BASED SUPERVISORY BOARDS Dick Fearn, Chairman, Western Route Supervisory Board Growth in traffic across the rail network requires even greater coordination of effort between infrastructure managers and train operator Meeting ever-increasing passenger expectations in service quality and delivery demands well-coordinated performance management by line of route The role of the new route supervisory boards in helping industry partners to achieve these objectives
14:50	LONG-TERM CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE BETWEEN READING AND LONDON PADDINGTON Ben Sturgess, Lead Strategic Planner, Network Rail A review of the long-term capacity challenges on this busy route to 2043 Options and trade-offs between journey types, capacity and punctuality The role that new technologies can play in meeting these challenges
15:20	MAPPING PERFORMANCE IN RAIL Oliver Bratton, Operations Director, European Business, MTR Corporation Ltd. How visualisation of the problem can assist with finding solutions Managing the difficulty of showing the numerous inputs that contribute to performance and capacity What techniques can be used to show the key variables affecting performance given the complexity of railway operations
15:50	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
16:05	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
16:35 Panel Discussion	FUTURE OF RAIL PERFORMANCE Chaired by: Richard McClean, Managing Director, Grand Central Rail Mark Hopwood, Managing Director, Great Western Railway Francis How, Chief Executive, Institution of Railway Signal Engineers How will future rail projects such as Crossrail 2 and HS2 manage their capacity to ensure high performance? With ever-rising passenger numbers, what will the outlook be in the next ten years? With a constantly evolving industry, what technology could be helpful in the future to help improve performance?
17:20	CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS
17:30	END OF SEMINAR

Chris Rowley: Capacity Planning Director, Network Rail

Chris Rowley is Network Rail’s Capacity Planning Director, responsible for NR’s timetable Planning and Production teams nationally. Chris started his career in the Rail Freight industry with EWS holding a range of Operational and Commercial roles, before moving on to the SRA and then to Network Rail where he spent a decade in planning roles in and around the Sussex and latterly South East Route. Chris ended his time in the South East as Strategy and Planning Director for the London area before taking up his current role.

Rob Warnes: Performance & Planning Director, Northern Rail

Rob leads the operational planning and performance activities at Northern, the biggest train operating company outside of London, operating 2,600 trains each day across the north of England. Rob joined Arriva in 2001 where he has since led operational delivery and major programmes at Northern. Rob chairs the industries RDG Performance & Planning Forum and represents Arriva Group on the National Task Force. He has been instrumental to the inception and development of the Northern Hub and Electrification schemes which have been the springboard for the transformation of the north’s rail services. As a Chartered Engineer, Rob started his extensive railway career with British Rail in 1989, as a Graduate Engineering Trainee before moving to Railtrack in 1996 where he managed a range of signalling projects across the north. More latterly Rob led the implementation of several large operational programmes, including introduction of electric trains in the North West.

Geoff Hobbs: Head of Public Transport Service Planning, Transport for London

Geoff Hobbs is Head of Public Transport Service Planning for Transport for London covering London Underground, London buses, London Overground, Docklands Light Railway and trams. He is responsible for planning, development and justification of ideas to improve TfL’s services. He also leads TfL’s input into the development of the National Rail network in London more widely, identifying and justifying TfL’s priorities. An economist by background, he has twenty-five years’ experience in public transport having previously worked in various strategic, sponsorship, business planning, marketing, policy and general management roles across Transport for London. He lives near London and uses the Underground every day.

Oliver Bratton: Operations Director, European Business, MTR Corporation Ltd

Oliver Bratton is Operations Director, European Business, MTR Corporation Ltd. He oversees MTR’s operations in London and Stockholm, and leads on operations, innovation and customer service in MTR’s bids. Much of his career has been spent on optimising timetables and improving performance on urban railways. In the last 10 years he has worked primarily in urban and mixed traffic rail systems, including London Overground, Tyne & Wear Metro, and MTR Crossrail, in each case delivering capacity and performance improvements. MTR’s European Business runs the Stockholm Metro (Tunnelbana), the Stockholm commuter system (Pendeltag) and the MTR Express between Stockholm and Gothenburg, as well as MTR Crossrail, the operator for the Elizabeth Line. It is a 30% JV partner (with First Group plc) for the new South West Railway franchise. Hong Kong’s MTR system is regarded as one of the best performing metros in the world. It is also recognized for its retail, commercial and property interests.

Ben Sturgess: Lead Strategic Planner, Network Rail

Ben Sturgess is the Lead Strategic Planner for the Western Route, working within Network Rail’s System Operator function. In this role Ben and his team work with funders and stakeholders to develop the long-term strategy for the Western Route. Prior to working in strategic planning Ben has carried out a number of roles assessing the capacity and performance impact of large infrastructure interventions and service changes such as Thameslink and Crossrail.

Dick Fearn: Chairman, Western Route Supervisory Board

Dick Fearn is a life-long, career railwayman with 44 years experience in the rail industry in both the UK and Ireland. Having now retired from full time executive responsibilities, Dick was recently appointed to the position of non-executive, independent chairman of the new Western Route Supervisory Board, the pilot supervisory board aimed at bringing together Network Rail and the relevant train operating companies by line of route. In his role between 2006 and 2013 as Chief Executive of Iarnrod Eireann (the state-owned, national railway of the Republic of Ireland), Dick led one of the few remaining fully vertically integrated state railway companies in Europe. Most notably during his time in that post, Dick oversaw the successful delivery of the €2 billion project to totally modernise the railway infrastructure and rolling stock fleet, enabling a substantial increase in the capacity of the Irish rail network. With senior management experience in public and private sector rail businesses, Dick is a strong advocate of the need for greater coordination of effort across the industry, to enable the railways of Britain to meet both growing demand and ever-increasing customer expectations.

Simon Reay: Industry Performance Relationship Manager, Network Rail

Simon Reay is an Industry Performance Relationship Manager working in the National Performance team of Network Rail. Engaging with colleagues in internal functions, route business units, operators and regulators he seeks to understand the drivers of performance and how we might best influence them. With 18 years’ experience in the railway industry, gained during roles in Operator and Governmental organisations, and for the last decade in Network Rail, he understands the alignment of performance requirements alongside the industry aspirations to provide capacity and faster journeys to delight passengers and help rail make its contribution to the UK economy.

Paul Naylor: Operations Consultant, CPC Systems Ltd

Paul Naylor has 35 years of experience in the bus and rail industry most recently with London Underground working as the operational lead for large-scale CBTC signalling projects (Jubilee Northern Upgrade Project and 4 Lines Modernisation) ensuring the CBTC system provides optimum operability, the business is operationally ready to put the system into customer service and improving reliability and service performance. Paul is currently working with MTR Crossrail on operational readiness for the opening of the central operating section of Crossrail in December 2018.

Chris Gibb: Independent, _

Chris Gibb has worked in the rail industry for 36 years. After a career in operational roles in England and Scotland, he became Managing Director, Wales & Borders Trains. In 2003 he joined Virgin Trains as Managing Director, Cross Country and later Chief Operating Officer. Retiring from this role in 2013, he joined the board of Network Rail as a Non Executive Director, and he chairs the Board's Safety, Health & Environment Committee and Property Board. He also chairs the 2018 Thameslink Industry Readiness Board, sits on the Welsh government's Transport Strategic Advisory Board, HS2's Independent Assessment Panel and is a visiting lecturer at Birmingham University.

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