OPERATIONAL PLANNING – PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES
From time to time the IRO offers an Operational Planning – Principles and Practices Course.
Our next course is scheduled for 15th - 16th May 2010 and will be held in Leeds. The course will commence at 19:30 on Friday 14th May and will finish late afternoon on Sunday 16th May.
This is a classroom-based course and is designed for those who are fairly new to the subject or those who wish to further their career development and expertise in this field.
COURSE OVERVIEW:
The course covers four main areas:
The Network:
The nature of the railway network, how it determines the shape of the train service, and may itself be shaped by the train service requirements. How the components of the network interact resulting in both the advertised timetable, and the reality of the train service.
Timetabling & Access:
The part of the programme covers the development of a train service from commercial and other demands and processes and tools for planning the train service. It also covers the tasks of compiling a timetable, the processes that take it to implementation, and the means of controlling alterations to the timetable during the period of its operation.
Capacity:
The capacity of rail networks, how it is created and the practicalities of exploiting it effectively;
Projects & Development:
This section covers devising, defining, designing and implementing developments to the railway system that can be operated successfully in terms of match of service with commercial requirements, performance and economy of operation.
The programme will cover the following aspects to enable you to identify the basic principles that apply to the following specific areas of operation:
- The nature of railways and the need for planning.
- Track layouts and signalling – how do they affect the train service?
- Rules of the Plan – what are they, what determines them?
- Presentation of timetable information.
- Access and planning timescales.
- Timetable construction (train graph, the occupation graph, rules of the plan, rules of the route);
- Types of train planning (the permanent timetable, short-term timetable, very short, investigatory exercises, engineering work, projects);
- Types of train services;
- Infrastructure implications (track layout, headways, line speed, train speed, line capacity, single lines, bi-directional signalling, electric power supply)
- Resource planning
- Identifying poor performance of the train service
- Bringing about improvements in performance: the Train Planning ↔Performance loop.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
The course will cover the principles involved in planning train services and executing them. Specifically, it is intended to help students to:
- learn the basic principles of train planning and performance;
- gain an understanding of the documentation of the train plan and the performance, and of how it is constructed and used in the railway workplace;
- gain an appreciation of the infrastructure over which the traffic runs and the impact of engineering work.
DURATION:
The course is run over a full weekend, commencing on a Friday evening and finishing late Sunday afternoon. (Weekends have been chosen to ensure availability of expert tutors and for ease of releasing staff).
Course Fees:
The course fees are £870.00. This includes course material, overnight accommodation on Friday and Saturday, breakfast on Saturday and Sunday and a course dinner on the Saturday evening.
To download a course application form click here (PDF).
OPERATIONAL PLANNING – PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES
From time to time the IRO offers an Operational Planning – Principles and Practices Course.
Our next course is scheduled for 15th - 16th May 2010 and will be held in Leeds. The course will commence at 19:30 on Friday 14th May and will finish late afternoon on Sunday 16th May.
This is a classroom-based course and is designed for those who are fairly new to the subject or those who wish to further their career development and expertise in this field.
COURSE OVERVIEW:
The course covers four main areas:
The Network:
The nature of the railway network, how it determines the shape of the train service, and may itself be shaped by the train service requirements. How the components of the network interact resulting in both the advertised timetable, and the reality of the train service.
Timetabling & Access:
The part of the programme covers the development of a train service from commercial and other demands and processes and tools for planning the train service. It also covers the tasks of compiling a timetable, the processes that take it to implementation, and the means of controlling alterations to the timetable during the period of its operation.
Capacity:
The capacity of rail networks, how it is created and the practicalities of exploiting it effectively;
Projects & Development:
This section covers devising, defining, designing and implementing developments to the railway system that can be operated successfully in terms of match of service with commercial requirements, performance and economy of operation.
The programme will cover the following aspects to enable you to identify the basic principles that apply to the following specific areas of operation:
- The nature of railways and the need for planning.
- Track layouts and signalling – how do they affect the train service?
- Rules of the Plan – what are they, what determines them?
- Presentation of timetable information.
- Access and planning timescales.
- Timetable construction (train graph, the occupation graph, rules of the plan, rules of the route);
- Types of train planning (the permanent timetable, short-term timetable, very short, investigatory exercises, engineering work, projects);
- Types of train services;
- Infrastructure implications (track layout, headways, line speed, train speed, line capacity, single lines, bi-directional signalling, electric power supply)
- Resource planning
- Identifying poor performance of the train service
- Bringing about improvements in performance: the Train Planning ↔Performance loop.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
The course will cover the principles involved in planning train services and executing them. Specifically, it is intended to help students to:
- learn the basic principles of train planning and performance;
- gain an understanding of the documentation of the train plan and the performance, and of how it is constructed and used in the railway workplace;
- gain an appreciation of the infrastructure over which the traffic runs and the impact of engineering work.
DURATION:
The course is run over a full weekend, commencing on a Friday evening and finishing late Sunday afternoon. (Weekends have been chosen to ensure availability of expert tutors and for ease of releasing staff).
Course Fees:
The course fees are £870.00. This includes course material, overnight accommodation on Friday and Saturday, breakfast on Saturday and Sunday and a course dinner on the Saturday evening.
To download a course application form click here (PDF).