YEARS ANNUAL REPORT 30 optimising railways Head Office SMA und Partner AG Gubelstrasse 28 8050 Zurich, Switzerland Branch Office SMA et associés SA Avenue de la Gare 1 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland Subsidiaries SMA Rail Consulting + IT, Corp. 2677 North Main Street, Suite 825 Santa Ana, CA 92705, USA SMA (Deutschland) GmbH Stresemannallee 30 60596 Frankfurt, Germany SMA (France) SAS 45/47 Rue d’Hauteville 75010 Paris, France
[email protected] www.sma-partner.com The photographs in this year’s annual report are not simply showing impressive examples from the railway world. The attentive viewer will also find abstract representations from the 30-year company history of SMA’s activities in these collages. Contents 5 Introduction 8 Railway 4.0 12 A selection of projects from 2016 38 Events, publications and presentations 39 Key figures 42 Publisher’s imprint Introduction Dear Readers, The publication of the 2016 Annual Report in 2017 gives us the opportunity to reflect on SMA’s 30th anniversary. It is not a question of transforming our traditional annual report into a nostalgia-laden volume which describes the past three decades under the rose-tinted motto “Everything Used to Be Better”. Instead, we have decided to follow these 30 years with respect for the many successes of SMA and our customers – customers with whom we have always pursued a common goal: planning tomorrow’s transport systems. Our report this year is therefore twofold. Firstly, in the traditional way it demonstrates the impressive experiences, projects and key figures from the 2016 financial year. However, it also honours 30 years of company’s internal developments, key projects for our customers, and in parallel to these milestones from the development of the railway – Developments that SMA recognised, explored and sometimes influenced in some way or other.