Pantrak Transportation Limited

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Integrated Traffic Information on the Railfreight
Link Between Scotland and Italy

• Gavin W. Roser
• Director Pantrak Transportation Limited
• Brussels, 23 April 2002

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Themis To improve communication and
co-operation between the fields of Freight
Transportation and Traffic Information

• A Pan European Vision which must succeed.

• The Rail industry must set aside historical
  perspectives.

• The Rail industry must understand that the Road
  
• industry has a significant lead in the use of
  
• technology in transport planning.

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Where Are We Today?

• In the UK 8 volume
• 1 value

• Typical transit times

• Terminal operations

• Security delays

• Bulk commodities
• London consolidation

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Train Routing Transit Participants

• Glasgow Wembley EWS loco

• Wembley Dollandsmoor EWS loco

• Dollandsmoor Frethun EWS or SNCF loco

• Frethun Metz SNCF loco

• Metz Basel SNCF, Basel Chiasso SBB
• Metz Chiasso SNCF or SBB loco

• Chiasso Milan FS loco

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The Euro Network the only way forward

• Route ownership.
• Single responsibility origin
• to destination.
• Total visibility.
• Common signalling 2012
• (inter operability).

One loco Glasgow-Milan (diesel or electric),
or Glasgow-Metz / Metz-Milan
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Rail and the Supply Chain
Electronics Foodstuffs Reefer
considerations Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Consumer
goods Drinks sector particularly whisky These
sectors demand visibility, transparency,
reliability and predictability. Freight by train
must match best high speed passenger service.
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Railway Industry From the Drivers Eye

• They are the eyes and ears
• of the Business.
• How often do we seek
• their advice on
• Transit times.
• Changeovers.
• Bottlenecks or choke
• points.
• Application of new
• or evolving Technology.

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• We can learn from the Japanese about
• Integrated networks.
• Communication co-operation between
• freight transportation and traffic
  information.
• High domestic freight coastal shipping.
• Micro-managed urban distribution by truck.
• Demand LCL.

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The Road Sector What Has It Achieved With
Technology?

• Customer driven focus.
• Performance monitoring and K P Is.
• Vehicle tracking, now trailer tracking with MTS
  
• system.
• Through the Vemis system both driver
• performance monitoring, remote door locking
  and
• enhanced security systems.
• Vehicles allocated to specific customer work
  groups
• for track trace and consignment monitoring.
  Geo
• fencing another new initiative.

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• Rail Initiatives
• CTG Project on internet real time
• train follow up information.
• The Themis projects.
• Railserv.
• X Modall.
• TruckTrain.
• Alcatel Mobicon.

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Key Issues For Resolution

• Simple transparent communications between
• national railway structures (CTG).
• Easy access of performance data to customers
• operating in supply chain.
• Illegal immigrant issue (UK only).
• Recognition that rail has a key role in
  improving
• management of road congestion. Critical EU
  issue.
• Recognition by rail sector that customers, not
  
• them, are in the driving seat.
• Complex solutions to integrate traffic data
• with Transport Management will not work. KISS!

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Technology is probably the key ingredient in the
global economy after people themselves, recognisin
g that it is people who have created that
technology. All this transportation technology
will go for nothing if we as an industry fail to
change the freight customers perception of rail
as out-of- date system for the movement of
bulk commodities.