Lille, 17th November 2010 Ernest GODWARD The Report on Vehicle Authorisation - Costs and Complexities.

Lille, 17th November 2010

Ernest GODWARD

The Report on Vehicle Authorisation - Costs and Complexities

Report content

Executive summary1. References, terms & abbreviations2. Railway vehicle authorisation background3. Railway vehicle authorisation trends and methodology4. Analysis of vehicles authorisation processes5. Analysis of costs drivers related to vehicle authorisation 6. Obstacles to vehicle authorisation for placing in service

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Sources of information

1. ERA questionnaire to MSs/NSAs on processes2. ERA questionnaire to the sector (manufacturers, RUs)

on costs & delays3. ERA workshop with the sector on obstacles4. Bi-lateral meetings with the NSAs/ Sector from 07/2009

to 07/2010 on the processes and business cases

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Processes: key findings

• Different ways to place a vehicle in service amongst the 28 NSAs (25 EU+ NIE + NO + CH)

• Current processes are extremely complex, take time and cost a large amount

• Even with the current XA agreements, there are still improvements to be made related to APS

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Processes: key findings Recall the findings from the NSA questionnaire:Mean number of vehicles authorised per type (2004 – Q2 2009)

From the bi-lateral meetings, the Sector Workshop and other sources we were able to examine 83 observations of 62 cases of APS

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Wagons Locomotives Pass. Vehicles Fixed formation

New Existing New Existing New Existing New Existing

69 157 7 12 17 19 21 27

Processes\Veh. Category

Wagons Locomotives Pass. Vehicles Fixed formation Total

New type 11 12 4 16 43

Additional authorisation

1 11 3 0 15

Additional authorisation under XA

1 5 2 6 14

Modification of an existing type

2 4 2 3 11

Forecasts of future APS – UNIFE/BCG WM Study

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Forecasts of future APS – ERA based on UNIFE/BCG WM Study

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Time for APS

Sample of 5 varied projects across Europe

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Time for stages of the APS – Start to finish Statistical mean time in days

Project (First contact to APS) 745

Application (Technical File completed to APS) 457

All Tests 173

Assessment 24

Assessment to final Authorisation (Internal handling by NSA)

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Costs of authorisation for vehicles

• Costs to authorise vehicles to APS is split into three parts:• To meet Contractual Requirements - Manufacturer and Contracting

Entity/Railway Undertaking• To meet Essential Requirements by being placed in “Design Operating State”

– Manu/CE/RU and National Safety Authority (NSA)• To meet Technical Compatibility Requirements – NSA in conjunction with

Infrastructure Manager(s)

• All of the above costs overlap. To date, our case studies have only seen the total costs for these three items. The total figures have more of an impact than the split costs

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Ranges of authorisation costs

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Vehicle category CostsFirst authorisations

Wagon 1% of Contract price

Multi-system Locomotive € 5 to 7 Million

Subsequent authorisationsMulti-system Locomotive for a MS € 1 to 4 Million

Multi-system Locomotive for 5 MSs € 16 to 20 Million

Cost Drivers for additional authorisation

• Open points or Specific Cases in CCS TSIs• Equipment of Locos with additional Class B systems• Different requirement leading to exchange of pantograph• Testing to proof running (dynamic) behavior• Aerodynamic effects• Different brake performance requirements• Different requirements to design and equip Driver’s cab• Different national requirements on Push Pull controls

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Relative Cost Impact of Cost Drivers

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Parameter Averaged

Relative Cost Impact

(100%: complete costs of an additional authorisation)

Open points or Specific Cases in CCS TSIs 15Equipment of Locos with additional Class B systems 15Different requirement leading to exchange of pantograph 10

Testing to proof running behaviour 10

Aerodynamic effects 5Different requirements to design and equip Driver’s cab 5

Different brake performance requirements 5Different national requirements on Push Pull controls 1Others 34

Impact of XA on additional authorisations

Current situation MoU in place:• Significant reduction in the authorisation costs Differences in Infrastructure (between first & subsequent MS)• The greater these are, the higher the authorisation costs will be Worst case: No existing MoU and significant difference of infrastructure• Additional authorisation vary between €0,9 - €2 M per locomotive type

Future expectations APS cost decreases:• if more MoUs are established, or• if MS implement APS in line with the Directives and DV29 Additional APS costs may be lowered to be in the range of €0,4 – 0,5 Million

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Next Steps

• First draft submission to XA Core Group – 26/10/2010• XA Core Group comments by 15/11/2010• Submission to the XA WP - 01/12/2010• Dissemination

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Thank you for your attention

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