Rail Operations and Maintenance

Rail maintenance has always been a significant cost driver, the “invisible” guarantee for reliability and quality of service. Assets depreciate over time and if not maintained, they will worsen rail services, diminish quality, drive away customers and ultimately deteriorate your assets.

From the principles of asset management and maintenance to a detailed understanding of the maintenance of various assets, and from lifecycle costs and planning to obsolescence management, this training programme will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the topic through a unique methodological approach illustrated by international best practice and on-the-ground operational experience.

Nevertheless, times are also changing in this area and technology is evolving: maintenance organisation can be shifted from preventive based on time or intervals to predictive based on real maintenance needs and real conditions of equipment. Modern smart equipment are bringing about a paradigm shift through their ability to inform precisely about assets’ technical status in real time. Condition-based maintenance can increase cost efficiency, but requires a profound reshaping of maintenance organisation and processes. Furthermore, real-time data, big data and digitalisation are improving the way maintenance can be predicted and optimised.

Hence beyond providing you with the classic, yet essential rail maintenance and asset management principles and best practice, this course will also give you the opportunity to discuss the implications of new technologies and the use of industry-like measures to make your training programme ever more efficient.

• Understand the key elements of public transport and rail operations planning and execution
• Explain the fundamentals of rail asset management, and apply its principles to facility and fleet maintenance planning
• Apply life cycle planning and costing for all rail and other public transport assets
• Develop and implement a predictive maintenance programme for rail facilities and fleets
• Estimate and schedule facility and fleet maintenance programmes
• Prepare a transit asset management plan and annual work plans
• Develop and justify budgets and staffing plans
• Measure and evaluate existing rail maintenance and asset management programmes
• Assess the benefits and disadvantages of outsourcing and in-house maintenance
• Integrate human capital in rail asset management planning
• Manage human resources in maintenance
• Lean about the implications of big data and digitalisation for rail maintenance and asset management

• Get inspired by our trainers, understand the main concepts and learn from successful best practice
• Participate in interactive plenary sessions with introductions by course leaders, presentations by trainers and open discussions with participants
• Challenge your practical knowledge on maintenance and asset management
• Address the topic from an international perspective, enriched by different cultural approaches and points of views
• Participate to practical exercises and case studies
• Benefit from a unique exchange of knowledge and experience between professionals

UITP Training Programmes and all related processes are certified for ISO29990:2010 – the standard for learning services for non-formal education and training.

• Incumbent and new managers, supervisors, and coordinators from the following areas and departments: Rail Maintenance, Fleet, Facilities, Operations, Planning, Finance
• Staff from rail and public transport operators, authorities or the industry
• Professionals interested in obtaining a wider and international perspective on rail maintenance and asset management and eager to learn more from best practice worldwide
• The course welcomes junior and senior professionals worldwide.

All UITP trainers are top level transport and mobility professionals with extensive experience in public transport and operations from different regions of the world. In addition, UITP invites guest speakers to illustrate specific solutions, practices and case studies.