RISE Awards 2020 4 November 2020
#RISEAwards20 Unlocking Innovation Frazer-Nash Consultancy Frazer-Nash Consultancy and the Logistics Institute at the University of Hull are working together to develop tools that will revolutionise understanding of the propagation of delays across the rail network. Having met at a Rail Freight Group event in November 2019, the organisations recognised that combining their complementary expertise, they could offer a game changing advance in freight train planning during network delays. The work has been funded under a grant from RSSB and Network Rail and is based on combining the Logistics Institute’s comprehensive, detailed and integrated rail network database, NR+, with Frazer-Nash’s cutting edge Machine Learning experience from the defence sector. The solution, Rapid Evaluation and Planning Analysis Infrastructure for Railways (REPAIR), is a revolutionary set of predictive tools that will enable freight train planners to understand and mitigate the impact of current and future network delays on their services, providing increased certainty of delivery and avoiding unintended consequences arising from the actions they take. It allows the end user to visually understand how delays are likely to propagate across the rail network and affect their services, as well as displaying how constraints like crew availability will limit effective recovery.
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