N01.22 Motorway section Schönbühl – Kirchberg, Lindenrain rest area upgrade
The service building at the Lindenrain motorway rest area has been equipped with a new toilet module made of chrome steel; construction was completed at the end of 2023. The new toilet module offers better protection against vandalism, and it will be possible to continue its use in the event of a future replacement of the service building. R+R supported the Federal Road Office’s overall project manager in project planning and execution.
ERTMS Netherlands
Other countries, same problems: Modern railway technology requires time and money to implement. Jost Lüking was member of a team of six European experts on the ETCS train control system who assessed the status of the national ETCS program for the Dutch Parliament in mid-2023. Our Second Opinion formulated recommendations on program governance and management, on the technical, spatial and temporal scope of the program, on system integration and integration management, and last but not least on program costs and their current forecast. The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Waterways published the Second Opinion at the beginning of November.
EP Hagnau – Augst N02
Within the Hagnau – Augst motorway maintenance project, structural changes to the western tunnel portal (direction Basel/Germany) have to be carried out to enable longitudinal ventilation in both traffic directions. We are pleased that the plans for the extension of the western portal of Schweizerhalle tunnel have officially been approved. This allows us to finalise the detailed design and approach the contractor submission process according to our project schedule.
N06.28 NEB EM Lyss Süd – Schönbühl
We are pleased to provide managenent support and construction site management for the N06.28 NEB EM Lyss Süd - Schönbühl motorway maintenance project on behalf of the Federal Road Authority’s Thun branch. The project includes replacement of the pavement as well as extensive measures on the engineering structures. The construction work is scheduled to be carried out between 2025 and 2027.
N01.22 Motorway section Schönbühl – Kirchberg, Lindenrain rest area upgrade
ERTMS Netherlands
EP Hagnau – Augst N02
N06.28 NEB EM Lyss Süd – Schönbühl
VALIDATION SMARTRAIL SR40 BUSINESS CASE
With the implementation of the smartrail 4.0 program, railways in Switzerland are striving for future-oriented planning, management and automation of traffic services. R+R has examined the expected costs and cost savings.
Important and essential systems of the railways technical infrastructure will reach the end of their service life in the next few years: interlockings, control technology, trackside systems, radio data transmission and the Traffic Management System (TMS). In addition, there are fundamentally new possibilities due to technological developments, such as reliable and exact localization or Automatic Train Operation (ATO), which off er new possibilities for further automation and optimization for the production of railway services. In August 2017, the FOT commissioned the SBB to start the “smartrail 4.0” (SR40) program together with the industry, in order to design an overall architecture for the holistic development of the automation and optimization potential. A business case was created for this in 2019. Together with Emch+Berger, R+R validated the business case in two iterations. R+R examined above all the costs and cost savings.
Client
Swiss Federal Railways SBB
Processing period
2019 – 2020
Project costs
approx. 5 billion CHF
Project type
Rail
Services
Consulting
Fields of expertise
Project Evaluation
Benchmarking
Comparative Market Studies
Downloads
Project sheet
Contact
Dr. Jost Lüking
Consultant economics, chairman of the board of directors