Mobile service platform for railway contractors

Railway contractor application is a mobile app for track workers used for improving the efficiency and safety of track work by locating track teams, digitalising operational information and enabling real-time information about ongoing track work.

The application decreases manual work significantly and enables the development of capacity management for track work. The platform is an accelerator for customer specific end-product. This allows rapid deployment while maintaining full customisability.

Some of the platform’s key features: 

• Requesting, changing and terminating track work permits
• Track work notification form
• Scheduling and coordinating track work, as well as determining work areas and traffic impact areas
• Advance notifications and plans for maintenance and construction track work, including processing procedures
• Preparation of traffic restriction notifications and traffic safety plans, processing procedures, and communication with relevant parties
• Formation of a work group and monitoring of GPS locations (railway work supervisor, railway work group members, railway machine operators)
• Track diagram and map views for monitoring the operational situation, past and future work

Mobile service platform improves efficiency and safety of track work in the public sector, harbours, industrial and logistics sites with railway networks via real-time visibility into the location of track teams and delivery of operational information for all stakeholders. The platform improves track capacity planning and acts as an accelerator for customer specific end-product.

• Work safety
• Operative efficiency
• Enables long-term planning and optimisation
• Real-time GPS positioning for work group members and work machines
• Standardised digital forms for planning and reporting track work and maintenance
• Digitised forms ensure that information is entered in the correct format and comprehensively
• Standardised processing procedures with defined responsibilities for plans and notifications, from draft to submission and processing to approval.
• Real-time track work permits and related information (e.g., remaining permit duration and location) on the mobile phones of track work supervisors and members and on traffic control screens, ensure a common understanding of the operational situation and reduce the risk of human error.
• Accurate mapping of the work location on a map and track diagram 

Easy onboarding and implementation model

• Specifications – matching platform capabilities and customer requirements
• Platform delivery – implementation of core solution
• Setup of track infrastructure model (migration, creation or integration)
• Integrations and adaptations – based on agreed requirements