1. Visit to VLTC Amsterdam
Erick Wegener Sleeswijk

2. Welcome at ProRail Verkeersleiding
Dutch Rail Traffic Control
15 th. March 2006 Amsterdam
Introduce myself
Please as many questions you like
Will try to answer them of course with help of my colleque’s
Some figures: 6500 km tracks, 9240 signals, railcrossings 3015, stations 380.
Employees about 1400 (almost) 77% of them are male.
5000 trains a day
trainmovements example Ut 11035

3. 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
Mission Verkeersleiding
Although divided in 4 regional centres, we act as one unit.
leading principles
trainoperating companies
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4. Our clients: all trainoperating companies (t.o.c.’s)
passengers and freight
maintenance companies
One dominant player!
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5. Our primary tasks: traffic control signalling
coordination in case of disturbance
traffic information and realisation reports
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6. Primary tasks (1): Traffic control:
reallocation of railinfrastructure (operational management of the planned railinfracapacity)
4 geographic locations
Concerned with the allocation of as said acting as one.
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7. Primary tasks (2): Signalling:
providing save railcapacity / time- and spaceslots
routine parts in tasks computerized
13 signalposts (we will visit the Amsterdam signalpost)
providing
we will visit Utrecht
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8. Primary tasks (3): Co-ordination in case of disturbances:
general management
alarm
recovery of rail traffic
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9. 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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10. 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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11. Some facts and figures:
+/ employees
turnover € 90 million
government payment based on number of train movements
total of train movements p.d.in NL
signalling Amsterdam CS : 1700 train movements per day
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12. 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
We act with operational allocation rules.
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13. Preparation for mainline (re-) construction works (1):
Agreements made in advance for :
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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14. 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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15. 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 alway’s better
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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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
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