Introduction of the company
The Dutch Railways is a company active in the public transport sector. They are the main rail service provider of public transport by train. The company transports 1.2 million travelers with 5200 trains on a daily basis.
The challenge they faced
The challenge for the Dutch Railways is to improve the communication between the MBN (Materieel Besturingscentrum NedTrain) and SB (Servicebedrijven, service companies in English). By doing so, they will optimise the service and maintenance planning of trains to improve scheduling performance and to reduce unnecessary kilometres driven by trains to service stations where they can’t be serviced.
The solution we came up with
Together with our partner OXplus, we designed a solution that will allow the Dutch Railways to have real time data insights on the service orders for their trains. These will be manually put in by service officers in the trains. Based on location, skills and capacity, our algorithms choose the most suitable service station for the trains that need to be maintained or fixed. This could roll out to future possibilities of predicting maintenance and making service planning autonomous. This solutions will reduce CO2 emission, unnecessary kilometres and lead to more accurate and data driven planning decisions.
