The document discusses asset management challenges facing the Dutch railway system and the value of information and analytics. It describes the transition towards performance-based railway maintenance contracts in the Netherlands. This involved collecting extensive data on rail assets and developing predictive models to optimize maintenance planning and reduce delays and costs. A key part of this effort was establishing a common language and data standards for rail asset information across different operators and contractors. The approach helped improve railway performance and lower maintenance costs in the Netherlands.

1. THE DUTCH PERSPECTIVE IN USING
INFORMATION AND ANALYTICS TO IMPROVE
PERFORMANCE
The Rail Asset Management challenge in Netherlands and the
value of information - IAM Annual Conference, Manchester

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Introducing
Peter Dourlein
• Dutch Nationality
• Civil Engineering - University of Twente 2004
• Rail systems Engineering - Delft Toptech 2008
• Program Management – Arcadis Academy Oxford University - 2016
• Started as Maintenance Engineer Betuweroute, ProRail
• Asset Management Programme Rail, Arcadis Netherlands
• Project Manager IM Spoor and OTL Spoor, ProRail
• MIAM / Board Member AssetManagement Nederland
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This presentation..
• The Dutch Railway challenge
• The value of information
• One common language
• Best practices
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4. The Dutch Railway challenge
The dutch railway challenge
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Movares &
ARCADIS
1995
BAM, Strukton &
Volker Stevin
Advice and
Engineering
companies
Rail Contractors
NS
Passengers & Stations
NS, The National Railway Company, was divided into different business units
Asset manager
+ Traffic control
Carrier company
+ Real estate
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Advice and
Engineering
companies
4 Maintenance
Contractors
GVB
Amsterdam
RET
Rotterdam
HTM
The Hague
Transport inspection agency
asset manager & network controller
29 passenger / freight
Carriers
Specified on next page -
Urban transport: Asset manager, network controller and transport company in one
Management concession &
output contract
Access
agreements
Framework
agreements
& Network
declaration
Transport concession &
output contract
2017
RTU
Utrecht
400+ Project
Contractors
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Source: ProRail
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Source: ProRail
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Transition towards Performance based
maintenance
The Dutch Challenge
• Begin 2000’s: Punctuality dropped, while cost increased
• Change activity based railway maintenance market into more
effective performance based Maintenance related to serve the
commuter
• How to successfully implement this change into performance
based maintenance contracts.
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Approach
• Don’t talk about it, just do it: Setting up ASSET Rail
• Apply life cycle knowledge and creating sustainable feedback
loop.
• Design a data driven and purpose streamlined organization that
meets the demands of ProRails ambition to keep Europe’s best
performance/cost ratio.
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Focus on top goals reducing train
delays
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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
DOT
UO
Effective service
provider
Proactive
Taking responsability
Cost effective
Performance based
Flexibility
Risk based
Partnership attitude
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ProRails Result
• New sustainable player ASSET Rail: awarded the first performance based maintenance contracts in The
Netherlands, now 4 contracts totaling 1400 km network length (21%)
• Realizing sustainable maintenance costs reduction up to 40%
• Raising availability and safety levels without lowering remaining life span.
• New player is a catalyst for transition of total Dutch landscape
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Rail Asset Managers: value of information
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Spoordata.nl
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One Common Language
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OTL - One
common
language
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One version of the truth: Informatie Model Spoor
One common language in the Dutch Rail sector
Source: ProRail
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One information model for the entire railway sector
Source: ProRail
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Focus on assets with the greatest
potential for savings
Collect data on the basis of well-
known failure mechanisms and
potential influencers.
Build a machine learning model for
predicting the asset condition
(MTBF). Validation of this model
using testdata.
understand current maintenance plans
and budgets
Model results used to optimize
maintenance plans.
Gain insight in multivariabel
correlations
Optimize effectiveness maintenance budget
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From expert-judgement to data-driven decisions
5%
10%
10%
15%
20%
40%
Spoorstaaf
TypeDwarsligger
Engelsman
Bouwjaar
Hoek (HSW)
Belasting
(Tonnen)
Preventive
maintenance
QUALITATIVE: EXPERIENCE-BASED
% influence variable on the amount of failures
Predictive
Maintenance
In both
New
QUANTITATIVE: FACT-BASED
% influence variable on the amount of failures
5%
5%
6%
7%
7%
7%
8%
8%
10%
11%
13%
13%
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Grondsoort
LeeftijdSteller
LeeftijdTong
TonnenGoederen
LeeftijdWissel
Hoek
LeeftijdPuntstuk
TonnenReizigers
Engelsman
StoringenVorigJaar
Geocode
Business
question
Analyse
Business question
Visualisation &
Data enrichment
Model
Datacollection &
Data-audit
Evaluate
Number of trains
Asset parameter 1
Age
Type of switch
Asset parameter 2
Type of rail
Location
Last disruption
Type of switch
Number of trains
Age part 1
Asset parameter 1
Age part 2
Load
Age part 2
Age part 2
External parameter 1
External parameter 2
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Collect (sensor) data
Detect abnormal patterns.
Depending on the type of
problem this is repeated yearly,
weekly or even in real time.
Identify upcoming failures
Perform preventive
inspections / repair and
prevent malfunctions
Prevent unplanned disruptions
Slippery rail
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Business
question
Analyse
Business question
Visualisation &
Data enrichment
Model
Datacollection &
Data-audit
Evaluate
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Recap
• Typically Dutch: Polderen, one common language helps
• The systematic nature of rail systems carries great potential for
digital design, construction, operation and maintenance in the
Netherlands
• Asset Management is currently the big push for (B)IM in the
Dutch rail industry
• Rail is a system within a bigger (environmental) system.
Disclaimer: a significant amount of the content is based on personal observations
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Future Proof:
It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
nor the most intelligent, but the one most
responsive to change.” – Leon C. Megginson
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Questions?
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CONTACTS
PETER DOURLEIN
Programme Manager
Infrastructure
T +31 (0)88 426 1225
M +31 (0)6 2706 0486
E peter.dourlein@arcadis.com
Arcadis
Piet Mondriaanlaan 26
P.O.Box 220
3800 AE Amersfoort, The Netherlands
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