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National Rail Action Plan Prepared for the Transport and Infrastructure Council
Contents
Introduction 3
1. Workforce 4
2. Harmonisation and standardisation 5
About the plan 7
1. Meeting rail’s critical skills and
labour needs 8
2. Common rules for infrastructure
standards 12
3. Common standards for components
for rolling stock 13
4. Common rules for safe work 14
5. Interoperable communication and
control systems 15
2 National Rail Action PlanIntroduction
This plan is an agreed set of actions that will be undertaken by
the Commonwealth, state and territory governments and key
members of the rail industry.
The plan aims to implement changes to improve delivery of
rail infrastructure and improve the safety and productivity of
rail operations. An additional focus will be to create
opportunities for manufacturers of rail equipment to supply
rolling stock and components.
The actions have two main focuses: Australia will be spending more on rail in
the next decade than submarines. Rail
1. to ensure we have the skills and labour manufacturing employs 5,000 workers
required to build and operate the rail directly, with a further 7,000 in the
network; and extended supply chain.
2. to improve the efficiency and safety of
Australia‘s rail system by continuing to This rapid increase in public investment
align or harmonise operating rules, creates both opportunities and challenges.
infrastructure and operational Rail can reduce congestion in metropolitan
standards and systems across the areas and improve freight productivity
nation’s rail network. across the nation. One of the challenges is
having a rail construction capability which
The plan will be a collaboration between is able to match the demand created by
governments and the rail industry as each the proposed new projects. There is also an
has a part to play in delivering the actions. opportunity to leverage the investment to
improve operational effectiveness and
Australia is currently experiencing a major safety, as well as provide economic
wave of public investment in the delivery of opportunities in the rail manufacturing
rail infrastructure. A BIS Oxford and sector.
Australasian Railway Association (ARA)
report (November 2018) has found that rail As new infrastructure projects are
construction activity rose by 18 per cent to completed and move to operations and as
$4.5bn total capital expenditure in 2016-17 rail operators update their fleet, there will
and expanded again in 2017-18 to $7bn. The be a greater need for passenger car sets as
medium-term outlook for the rail well as locomotives and rolling stock. This
construction sector is the strongest of all provides an opportunity for local
engineering construction markets in manufacturers to be able to build those
Australia, with the annual increase passenger car sets and other rolling stock
expected to surpass the resources-driven or to supply components.
peak of $8.3bn by 2021. Total activity is
expected to grow around 8 per cent per
annum over the five years to 2022-23.
3 National Rail Action Plan1. Workforce
A number of studies have highlighted concerns over capacity
constraints in both skilled and unskilled labour. BIS Oxford’s
analysis notes that the rail construction sector is likely to
experience challenges in sourcing skilled workers over the
coming decade. Indeed, the sector is already experiencing
challenges with the number of train drivers, controllers, track
workers, signalling engineers and technicians, maintenance
workers, electrical technicians and tunnellers not keeping up
with growing demand.
The rail industry has called for Infrastructure Australia publishes the
governments to work together to help meet Infrastructure Priority List. The Priority List
these challenges. The ARA has called for a is regularly reviewed and updated as
collaborative working group to develop a proposals for nationally significant projects
national rail workforce strategy to manage move through stages of development and
skills shortages and facilitate enhanced rail delivery. The Priority List is also available
skills development and workforce as an interactive map on the Infrastructure
capability across construction, operation Australia website. State infrastructure
and maintenance. agencies maintain similar lists of projects
for their jurisdiction.
This Plan focuses on skill issues that are
specific to the rail sector. Some actions will
be undertaken collaboratively with industry
and some actions will be led by industry.
Planning to acquire skills for rail
construction projects will be helped by a
transparent investment pipeline.
Governments have identified that a
consistent and reliable infrastructure
investment pipeline is a key driver in
achieving value for money in infrastructure
provision.
There is significant information that
outlines the investment by governments in
transport infrastructure. The Australian
Government’s National Infrastructure
Construction Schedule (NICS) links to state,
territory and industry-led infrastructure
websites, that provide investors and
construction contractors with detailed
information on infrastructure pipelines,
tendering and contracting opportunities.
4 National Rail Action Plan2. Harmonisation and standardisation
Australia’s railways have mostly developed as isolated
networks where each has applied standards suitable for their
circumstances. This is most notably reflected in the different
rail gauges across Australia. However, there remain different
standards for rolling stock and components, operating rules for
rail infrastructure and for communications and control systems.
The significant expansion in the rail network provides the
opportunity to move to a network that operates seamlessly
across Australia.
The Bureau of Transport and Regional Improved safety, efficiency and
Economics (BITRE) Optimising
harmonisation in the Australian railway
manufacturing opportunities
industry (2006) identifies that in addition to The growth of the rail sector provides an
different gauges, other technical, opportunity for local manufacturers to be
operational, regulatory and administrative able to build the passenger car sets and
inconsistencies have also impeded the flow other rolling stock or to supply
of rail traffic. BITRE notes that components. The Senate’s Rural and
harmonisation may deliver benefits such Regional Affairs and Transport References
as lower input costs, improvements in Committee 2017 Inquiry into Australia’s rail
operational efficiency, higher inherent industry noted that rather than Australia
safety and lower training costs. It can also being represented by one central, national
widen rail’s freight market. Conversely, it market, Australia has historically been
notes there are commercial pressures and made up of a number of smaller,
historical legacies that mitigate against fragmented rail markets. This continues to
greater standardisation. The report also act as a deterrent to investment in larger
notes the potential folly of government scale manufacture and innovation. Scale
setting standards for rail when rail also acts as a barrier to expansion. The
transport operators have superior problems are compounded by the
knowledge. Therefore, any move to greater inefficiencies associated with
harmonisation and standardisation will be manufacturing railway products to
done in close cooperation with the rail different standards and specifications.
industry.
Under Australia’s co-regulatory model, the
Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board
(RISSB) develops and manages standards,
rules, guidance materials and other
documents to assist the rail industry to
manage rail safety, improve efficiency and
achieve safety outcomes through
standardisation, interoperability and
harmonisation. This includes the Australian
Network Rules & Procedures (ANRP) which
is the master set of rules and procedures
that define how Rail Transport Operators
operate safely on the Australian rail
network.
5 National Rail Action PlanInfrastructure standards There are eight Rail Infrastructure
Managers in Australia and more than 50
In most cases the rail industry is vertically above-rail operators, including freight and
separated, with above rail operations passenger operations. When new
typically separated from below-rail. This infrastructure is built, each RIM individually
separation is reflected in the law. Rail determines the technical standards it
operations in Australia are regulated under requires to enable it to meet its safety
the Rail Safety National Law that is obligations under the national law.
adopted or applied in each Australian state
or territory. The National Law defines the This multiplicity of different standards, and
responsibilities of Rail Infrastructure different infrastructure outcomes, across
Managers (RIMs): this is the person or Australia (both on networks within and
organisation that has effective control and outside each State/Territory) is causing
manages the rail infrastructure. This isn’t inefficiencies for government and industry,
always the infrastructure owner. RIMs are including higher procurement, delivery and
responsible for below rail operations. maintenance costs. The problem has
become critical during the current period
The National Law also defines the of unprecedented investment by
responsibilities of rolling stock operators. governments in new rail projects.
Rolling stock operators have effective
control and management of the operation
or movement of rolling stock on rail Network operating rules
infrastructure for a railway.
Most rail freight trips in Australia do not
The regulatory framework is co-regulatory occur on a single network but typically
in that the Australian governments do not span several networks. For example, in
directly prescribe the standards or rules by Victoria a relatively short freight trip from
which railways need to operate. Rather, Gippsland to the Port of Melbourne
they set a performance requirement on requires a train to travel on both regional
railways to operate safely and provide and metropolitan networks, each controlled
operational flexibility to establish and by two different Rail Infrastructure
implement standards, rules and methods of Managers – V/Line and MTM.
operation necessary to meet the safety
performance requirement of their Safe-working rules tend to reflect in part
operations. historic state-based rules in each
jurisdiction, as well as the ‘overlay’ of
The co-regulatory safety model and the individual networks controlled by different
commercial access frameworks have Rail Infrastructure Managers.
evolved in Australia over the last 20 years,
as the nation has moved away from As a result, there are at least 11 different
vertically integrated, state-based signalling and train control systems in use
monopoly arrangements. across Australia, with each state having its
own distinct safe-working rules – meaning
The new approach is consistent with there are around 17 distinct safe-working
world’s best practice from both a safety systems across Australia. This extensive
and commercial perspective. array of systems imposes additional costs
in management, maintenance and
• It ensures that safety and operational competency training for both network
risks are clearly and contractually managers and operators.
allocated between network managers
and above-rail operators.
• It creates a competitive, private-sector
market for above-rail operations,
resulting in significant shifts in rail’s
share of the freight task in various
market segments (85% between Perth
and Melbourne).
However, it also results in less ability of
governments to coordinate standards for
rail operations and for infrastructure. This
results in there being less ability for there
to be nationally consistent standards for
rail infrastructure and for operations,
including for interoperability of
communications and control systems.
6 National Rail Action PlanAbout the plan
This plan sets a number of actions which will support the rail
industry’s efforts to undertake workforce planning, address skill
shortages and build and operate an expanded rail network,
covering the following areas:
• Identifying critical skill needs and options to meet
these needs – to identify the critical skills needed by Each section will set out:
industry and options to address these needs across
the rail construction, operation and manufacturing • the outcome the Transport and
sectors. Infrastructure Council expects;
• Improving network and infrastructure harmonisation • the reasons for, and benefits of, this
and interoperability – by capitalising on the outcome;
opportunity created by infrastructure spending and • work underway that is contributing to
advances in technology to improve the consistency of the expected outcome;
rules for using and building transport infrastructure
and the ability to communicate across the rail network. • who will lead the work; and
This work will focus on the development of common • how the work will be funded.
rules for railway operations, common standards for rail
infrastructure and for rolling stock, and to improve the
interoperability of train control and communications
systems.
National Rail Action Plan
Government and industry working groups
PHASE
Skills & labour Common standards Interoperability
Construction Operation and Components for rolling stock Common Communication
manufacturing and infrastructure operating rules and control
systems
Plan to grow Plan for rail specific Common standards for rolling Common Interoperability
critical rail operating and stock components and standard of control and
sector skills manufacturing infrastructure operating rules communications
skills for safe work systems
CRITICAL COMPONENTS
Rail skills such as Rail skills such as Development of common standards Development of standard operating
tunnelling and signalling rolling stock components and major rules that would apply across the rail
specific engineer and infrastructure elements network and the ability of train
electrical train drivers control and communications
7 National Rail Action Plan1. Meeting rail’s critical skills
and labour needs
The large increase in rail investment by governments creates challenges and
opportunities in terms of skill and labour requirements including in
construction, operations and manufacturing. Critical skills across each of
these areas often require specialised training pathways. These pathways rely
on public and private resources and institutions, including the training and
education sectors.
Construction Operational and manufacturing
Construction is Australia’s third largest industry. It is The rail industry has a number of skilled jobs where
highly competitive. Rail is just one component of the relevant training is best provided by those already in
construction sector. Many of the skills required in the the industry such as train and tram drivers, train
rail construction sector are portable across various controllers, railway signal operators. Similarly, there
sectors, including the civil construction sector. As are several variously skilled jobs where the training
acknowledged by the ARA and BIS Oxford, the rail for the role needs to be, or is best provided by, the rail
construction sub-industry will need to draw operators. This includes jobs such as rail
extensively from other parts of the construction maintenance worker and key rail specific
industry (and elsewhere) to ensure the timely delivery administration and management roles.
of projects.
There is also a need for the rail industry to continue
The Transport and Infrastructure Council notes there to develop people to have more specialised skill, e.g.
is an existing joint forum of leaders from the engineers. The actions proposed in this plan are
construction industry – the Construction Industry aimed at the development and training (and/or
Leadership Forum (CILF). This group is comprised of retaining) such key staff.
members from the Australian Constructors In terms of an audit, the Victorian Government has
Association (ACA) and the Victorian and New South commissioned a study with the Rail Manufacturing
Wales public sectors. The CILF works to address Cooperative Research Centre to investigate and
capability and capacity constraints in the report on skills shortages in the train, tram and bus
construction sector. In light of the significant work industry. The research will suggest strategies to
already underway through the CILF, and to avoid improve workforce attraction and staff retention to
duplication, this action plan focuses on critical rail ensure there is a sustainable industry that continues
specific skills, e.g. high voltage electrical work, train to meet Victoria’s transport and manufacturing
signalling, rail tunnelling. needs.
In addition, the Council recognises that governments
and industry are already partnering to develop Skills Council
critical rail skills. For example, the Victorian
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has
Tunnelling Centre is being built at Holmesglen
recently established a new COAG Skills Council to
Institute’s Chadstone campus to train people in
drive skills reform. Reporting to the new Skills Council,
underground construction and tunnelling, the Level
the Australian Industry and Skills Committee
Crossing Removal Authority has developed nine new
provides industry with a formal role in advising on
training programs and a new Inland Rail Skills
policy directions and decision making in the national
Academy has recently been launched by Australian
training system. There are a large number of
Rail Track Corporation (ARTC).
individual industry reference committees that advise
on the development of national training packages,
including for the rail industry and civil infrastructure.
Any actions in the plan that go to training
qualifications or broader skill system issues will need
to be raised with the relevant officials and ministers
responsible for skills issues.
8 National Rail Action PlanWhy Existing work Actions Lead By when Funding
Outcome
1.a Government and industry understand the critical rail sector skill needs
Current analysis has BIS Oxford Skills A report to Council on Labour and May 2020 Within
indicated there will be Capability Study the critical rail sector Skills Working existing
skills shortages across a (ARA) skills required across the Group budgets
number of occupations nation.
in the rail industry. Some
of these shortages
(especially the lower
skilled roles) will be
easier to resolve by
industry.
Many of the skills in
demand have a skill
specialisation that is in
addition to the
occupation’s
qualifications.
It is expected there will
be a smaller number of
highly skilled
occupations which are
critical to the delivery
and operation of rail
infrastructure (e.g. rail
signalling engineers)
and may need focused
efforts to identify those
skills gaps.
Outcome
1.b Government and industry understand how these critical skills are established
A skills pathway specific BIS Oxford Skills Audit of existing Labour and November Within
to each in-demand skill Capability Study training, programs and Skills Working 2020 existing
will be essential to (ARA) facilities as well as Group budgets
ensuring that identified government policies and
critical skill gaps are levers and other factors
addressed. that will determine
whether critical rail skills
needs are met.
Consultation will be
required with officials
responsible for skills
matters.
Consideration will need
to be given to the
appropriate role for
industry and
governments in respect
of skill development.
9 National Rail Action PlanWhy Existing work Actions Lead By when Funding
Outcome
1.c Governments and industry work together to improve portability of skills across jurisdictions
Portability will allow Rail Industry A report that identifies NTC in May 2020 Funding
employees to more Reference barriers to portability of conjunction to be
easily move to areas of Committee critical skills (which with Rail resolved
higher need without the (training packages) could include: training Industry
need for additional packages; specific asset Operators,
costly training. owner requirements; jurisdictions
licence conditions; and the
legislation; work health Commonwealth
and safety departments
requirements; and/or responsible for November
industrial relations infrastructure 2020
requirements). and skills
Recommendations to
improve portability.
Consultation will be
required with officials
responsible for skills
matters and with rail
industry operators.
Expert input will likely be
needed from the Rail
Industry Reference
Committee (which
develops and manages
training packages) on
the barriers and possible
solutions to improving
portability.
Outcome
1.d Government and industry understand and have strategies to address specific skills shortage challenges in the rail
manufacturing industry
It is critical to have Asset and Networks A Victorian Government Victoria October Within
strategies to address Division (A&N) in study in conjunction 2020 existing
skills shortages in the the Victorian with the Rail budgets
rail manufacturing Department of Manufacturing
industries in order to Transport has Cooperative Research
manufacture in consulted with Centre will investigate
Australia. Metro Trains and report on skills
Melbourne, Yarra shortages in the train,
Trams, Public tram and bus industry.
Transport Victoria
and several bus The research will
operators. These suggest strategies to
operators have improve workforce
reported a attraction and staff
significant retention, to ensure
emerging skills there is a sustainable
shortage. industry that continues
to meet Victoria’s
transport needs.
10 National Rail Action PlanWhy Existing work Actions Lead By when Funding
Outcome
1.e Rail skill needs are taken into account as part of the COAG Skills Council’s reform priorities and the reform
roadmap it is developing.
The COAG meeting of Skills ministers will Chair of the Transport TIC Chair December N/A
August 2019 resolved to work through the and Infrastructure 2019
establish a new COAG new COAG Skills Council (TIC) to write to
Skills Council to deliver Council, in the Chair of the Skills
a VET system which consultation with Council raising the
helps all Australians get education importance of rail skills
the skills they need for ministers, to advise development.
employment. leaders on future
reform priorities by
It is important ministers the end of 2019 and
responsible for skills and provide a reform
Education take account roadmap to COAG
of the rail sector’s needs in early 2020.
as part of future reform
priorities.
Outcome
1.f Rail industry attracts and retains quality, diverse staff
The rail industry needs Industry works together Industry Ongoing Industry
to be seen as an to develop, fund and funding
attractive and viable deliver ‘branding
long-term prospect for campaign’.
future employees, so it
can attract a workforce
with critical skills.
Outcome
1.g Rail industry continues to invest in skills and workforce
Industry investment is Training centres Industry continues to Industry Ongoing Industry
critical as it is generally and programs take a coordinated funding
best placed to including approach to investment
understand the discreet in its skills and
skills needs of its • Australian Rail workforce.
workforce. Track
Corporation
(ARTC) Inland
Rail Skills
Academy.
• The Rail
Academy
Newport
(Victoria).
• Centre of
Excellence in Rail
Training.
11 National Rail Action Plan2. Common rules for infrastructure standards
In rail, there is a strong link between the regulatory settings, operational
requirements and rail infrastructure.
The Rail Safety National Law defines infrastructure to standardised specifications, engineering solutions
be the facilities necessary to enable a railway to and methodologies rather than developing bespoke
operate and includes railway tracks and associated solutions on a project basis. Further work is required
railway track structures. to determine the extent of the problem, and possible
solutions.
Governments and industry have highlighted a need
for greater use of standardised documentation and
design detail to minimise disparity in requirements
for infrastructure, for example, through more
Why Existing work Actions Lead By when Funding
Outcome
2.a Industry establishes a higher level of standardisation / harmonisation of infrastructure standards
Various governments Conduct an audit of RISSB Nov 2020 Funding
have raised issues existing infrastructure to be
regarding the variations standards and identify resolved
in infrastructure opportunities for
standards used by standardisation.
different operators. This
is leading to concerns RISSB to undertake a
regarding productivity, survey of rail operators
interoperability and to understand where the
safety. differences are between
the jurisdictions and
rank these by:
• How significant each
difference is (i.e. how
much effort it would
take to change it)
• What the value of
changing it would be.
12 National Rail Action Plan3. Common standards for components
for rolling stock
Australia has a manufacturing base that could support the rail industry. It
could be self-sufficient in the development and supply of rolling stock and a
wide variety of components. The large investment in rail projects and
investment in rail operations will mean additional rolling stock will be needed
to operate on the new or improved lines. This will be in addition to any routine
replacement of rolling stock and components.
To support this, Australia needs clarity around the A local manufacturing Industry faces challenges from
number and type of trains to be purchased in coming cheap imports. The IBISWorld Railway Equipment
years. A delivery timetable would assist the Manufacturing and Repair - Australia Market
development of a rail manufacturing industry. This Research Report (May 2019) notes that there are
will in part be addressed by the work on the rail three important success factors for the railway
pipeline. In addition, common standards for rolling equipment manufacturing and repair industry. These
stock are critical. Traditionally, Australian rail has are:
had diverse standards and requirements for each
state and territory. This has resulted in a fragmented • undertaking technical research and development;
rail manufacturing industry and small disparate • economies of scale; and
markets. Using key standard components will provide • well-developed internal processes.
significant opportunities for cost savings and
investments in jobs in the rail manufacturing sector, Technical research and development is being
e.g. resulting in longer production runs and lower unit undertaken by the industry and the Rail
costs. This will allow local manufacturers to be able to Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre and is
better compete to supply components within not covered in this plan. This plan proposes to
Australia and abroad. address improving common standards for essential
rail components as outlined below.
Why Existing work Actions Lead By when Funding
Outcome
3.a Industry establishes higher level of standardisation / harmonisation of rollingstock components
Standardised RISSB is working 1. Release standards for RISSB Completed Already
components will allow with governments glazing and bogies. funded
local companies to more on standards for
easily supply products components for rail 2. Develop a further six November (Funding
for passenger car set rollingstock. standards: 2020 to be
construction and for • egress (including determined
repair. emergency egress) between
jurisdictions
A forward plan for • crashworthiness
and RISSB)
standardising key • energy storage
components will provide • Heating, Ventilation
greater certainty for the and Airconditioning
rail component (HVAC)
manufacturing industry.
• emissions (diesel
powered passenger
trains).
3. Develop a 3 year plan November RISSB
for developing 2020
standards for other
key components.
13 National Rail Action Plan4. Common rules for safe work
Australian railways should operate as a system. There are eight primary
below-rail companies (excluding geographically separate Pilbara and Tasrail
networks) and more than 50 above-rail operators, including freight and
passenger operations. There are 29,000km of interconnected network
spanning from the Perth to Brisbane and from Melbourne, via Adelaide to
Darwin. Many rail trips across this system are not on a single network but
typically span several networks, with each network operating as an
independent business. There are still three different rail gauges in use
in Australia.
Standardising common aspects of rail operations The Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board
can improve safety and reduce operating costs (RISSB), which is owned by industry, has developed
across the system. Currently, separate networks had the Operational Concept for the Australian Rail
different rules for safe work around trains and for Network. The report proposes a method to work
operating trains. These different rules require specific towards nationally consistent key rules for rail
training on each network. In addition, requiring operation. This work can be used as a basis for
different rules for the same operation in different developing key common rules for safe work and rail
states can create a barrier to mobility of staff and infrastructure use which will in turn improve
increases the cost of training. efficiency and safety in rail operations.
Why Existing work Actions Lead By when Funding
Outcome
4.a Improved harmonisation of rail operating rules and work standards
Various governments Over the past three RISSB finalise the RISSB and May 2020 Funding
have raised an issue years, industry has National Rules Project. other to be
regarding the variations been working with industry resolved
in infrastructure RISSB to develop a
standards used by set of national Rewrite the Australian Nov 2020
different operators on rules. This initial Network Rules and
the same network. This project is well Procedures (ANRP)
is leading to concerns advanced and is
regarding productivity scheduled for RISSB to undertake a Nov 2020
and safety. completion in early survey of rail operators
2020. to understand where the
A set of national rules
differences are between
(on operating rules and
the jurisdictions and
safe work standards) will
rank these by:
enable an optimal
approach to improving • how significant each
harmonisation. difference is;
• how much effort/cost
it would take to
change it;
• what the value of
changing it would be.
14 National Rail Action Plan5. Interoperable communication
and control systems
There are at least 11 different train control systems in use across Australia.
Systems in use can broadly be classified as: progressed in Australia, each is designed to meet the
challenges of the different types of railway
1. Signalling – provides for efficient operations so is operations, from less used interstate and regional
used on the busier lines but with the drawback of trains, to dense intra-city rail lines. These new
high levels of trackside equipment hence higher systems optimise train control and can automatically
construction, operation and maintenance costs. slow trains to maximise network efficiency and
2. Train Order Working (TOW) – at least six different improve safety.
forms are in use, ranging from manual TOW,
though to computer-assisted TOW (henceforth Barriers to system wide investment in modernised
cTOW) which can use voice or data transmission of and interoperable command and control systems
authorisations to proceed/not proceed and limit include:
speeds.
• the distribution of costs and benefits including
3. Token – a legacy system, Staff and Ticket (S&T) (perceptions at least of) safety and environmental
remains in use only on the most marginal corridors externalities; and
in Victoria. This is a fully manual system.
• fragmented economic regulatory (access)
arrangements including different regulators and
Rail network operators are increasingly adopting
regulatory treatment (including return on capital).
more sophisticated train control systems. There are
three train control system improvements being
Why Existing work Actions Lead By when Funding
Outcome
5.a An assessment of the costs and benefits for interoperable system implementation options.
The roll out of inter- ARA, the Freight on Complete a report for Industry November Funding
operable systems Rail Group (FORG) government based on working group 2020 to be
technology has and RISSB have all network business cases consisting of resolved
significant benefits to commissioned or for the implementation network
greater utilization of undertaken work on of interoperable owners and
existing assets and train operating and systems, highlighting the operators.
improvement in communications benefits available and
productivity. These systems. the recommended role
benefits however do not of government to deliver
accrue to individual These audits those benefits.
asset owners, impacting however do not
their commercial address
business cases and commercial
highlighting a potential business cases and
need for government what government
support. support is needed
to deliver the full
potential
productivity
improvements
available.
15 National Rail Action PlanWhy Existing work Actions Lead By when Funding Outcome 5.b National interoperable communications-based control systems. Leveraging the ARTC and TfNSW Develop a strategy to RISSB July 2021 Funding completed audits of are working on roll out an interoperable to be train control systems, greater control system based on resolved industry in collaboration interoperability an investigation of with RISSB is to develop within the NSW technological options. the appropriate roll out network. strategy to deliver interoperable control systems across to ensure strategic alignment across industry on what is required to deliver an interoperable system. 16 National Rail Action Plan
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