URBAN MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL AND INDIAN ACTIVITIES METRO NEWSLETTERS 88 - 93; December 2019 gathered by Dr. F. A. Wingler METRO NEWSLETTERS on Technologies for “URBAN MOBILITY AS A SERVICE” PUBLIC MULTIMODAL URBAN, SUBURBAN AND INTERURBAN PASSENGER TRANSIT TECHNOLOGIES WITH METRO-BUS, BUS RAPID TRANSIT, LIGHT-RAIL, TRAM-TRAIN, METRO-RAIL, METRO-TRAIN, REGIONAL RAPID TRANSIT, COMMUTER-RAIL, ROPE- WAY/TRAIN, MAGLEV AND HOVERCRAFT TRANSIT/PEOPLE MOVER, WATER-METRO, AUTONOMOUS PEOPLE-MOVER MOBILITY SOLUTIONS, PUBLIC TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN MODERN URBAN/MEGAPOLIS ENVIROMENT METRO Newsletter by Dr. F.A. Wingler METRO 88, September 2019 “The perfect Tamping Machine for India`s Metros”: Manufactured in India Plasser & Theurer Track Tamping Machine for Maha Metro, Nagpur, Pict. by Plasser & Theurer India 1 PART I: INDIAN ACTIVITIES AND INITIATIVES FOR URBAN MOBILITY AS A SERVICE Driving Digital Transformation in India; India Siemens India, Kalwa, Thane For over 40 years, the low-voltage switchgear factory at Kalwa has been manufacturing industrial Control Products. The factory has kept pace with changes in customer demands while maintaining high levels of quality and reliability. With the advent of digitalization, the factory has transformed into a globally-benchmarked showcase digital factory capable of producing over 180 variants at the rate of one product every 9 seconds. The SIRIUS range of switchgear products that will be manufactured here requires a high degree of precision and quality at global standards that can be achieved only through digitalization. The plant can now manufacture over 5 million devices annually. Products at the plant communicate with machines and all processes are optimized for IT control, resulting in a minimal failure rate. The production methods deployed at the plant are expected to be a standard for small and medium-sized manufacturing units in India, achieving a visionary model for the Future of Manufacturing: end-to-end digitalization where the real and virtual worlds merge in “Digital Factory”. Siemens, Kalwa, Thane Re-engineering Observation and Measurement, O&M, Wing of Metro Rail with Technology; India 2 By Ranjesh Kumar; Metro Rail News, September 2919 Can Metro Rail operations catch up with Technological advancements? If you are operations personnel working in Metro Rail Industry, I challenge you to ask this question to yourself. What’s your answer, yes or no? My answer is yes, what’s yours? In this article, I am going to share the ways, which I believe can be used to re-engineer the O&M wing of Metro Rail. Metro Rail is one of the fastest-growing industries in this country. Several new Metro rail Projects have been inaugurated in a past couple of months. In those upcoming projects, several latest technologies are being used in the field of signalling and rolling stock to provide uninterrupted train and passenger movement. In the Era of Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and other technological advancements, it is harder to avoid technological interference in Metro Rail Operations. When the world is redesigning itself with the assistance of latest technologies, it will be wise if we catch the bus in this very beginning. In my opinion, the following are the ways in which we can take help of technology to smoothen the Metro Rail Operations: Using Artificial Intelligence, AI, to empower customer service: Artificial Intelligence can be used to make ticket vending machines more effective and interactive. For all those readers, who don’t have any Idea about Artificial Intelligence, it is a technology which allows machines to have human cognitive functions like learning and problem-solving. In simpler words, with the help of this technology, machines can act and work like humans. This will help us reduce the human workload and remaining manpower can be utilized in other progressive work. A traditional customer interface can be upgraded to AI Powered customer service. Ticket vending machines can be improvised with the help AI technologies. Al technologies can allow Ticket vending machines to listen and respond to customer requests. For example, those who don’t know how to operate the machine can just talk with a machine. Another feature that I can think of is that there can be vending time restrictions in ticket vending machines. For example, if last revenue train for the certain train has already departed then ticket vending machine should not vend the tokens for that station directly. It should display and speak that “The last revenue train for that particular station has been already departed, do you still wish to buy a token to that station?”. These types of features will reduce the need for station agents and can reduce the operative expensive to a greater level. Replacing Registers with Portals: There are several types of registers that are used for the record-keeping purpose on daily basis in every metro rail organization. These registers are generally stored for auditing purpose for in between 3-8 years. If these registers are replaced with portals, data becomes easily available and reduces the human labour. In a portal-based data collection system, data is stored in the cloud and can be accessed easily. Data-Driven Decision making: There is a popular saying in the modern work culture, “Without data you are just a person with Opinion”. And, as we all know companies don’t run on opinions. We need facts to base our decision. To know facts, we need to know the data. And, to know the data, we need to collect a lot of data. Data collection and Data mining can be utilized to predict the trends for footfall, workload etc. For example, if we have the hourly data of ridership, we can predict the number of footfalls in an hour on a specific day. Based on the inputs from the data, we can decide how many housekeeping staffs are required to keep the station clean, we can also decide how much additional staff will be required to provide smooth passenger and train movement. 3 Interactive E-SOPs: Standard Operating Procedures are generally distributed in printed forms. A Portal or app can be developed to provide SOP in an Interactive electronic format. Candidates will need to clear the test after reading SOP to get an Assurance certificate. Individual’s Assurance certificates can be collected in the cloud for the auditing purpose. (Ranjesh Kumar) Ranjesh is a metro rail professional with 3.5 years of experience in station & revenue operations. Presently working with Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation. Bureau Veritas bags Contract for independent Safety Assessment (ISA) for Mumbai Metro-3; India September 19, 2019 Rail News The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRC) awarded contract for independent Safety Assessment (ISA) Services for Signalling and Train Control, Platform Screen Doors and rolling Stock Subsystems for Mumbai Metro Line-3 (Colaba-Bandra-Seepz) project. The contract for the same has been awarded to M/s Bureau Veritas Italia S.p.A, being the most competitive amongst the respective tenderers. More Information: . Commenting on the same Ms. Ashwini Bhide, Managing Director, MMRC said, “Independent Safety Assessment work is a mandatory requirement for safe and successful opening of Metro Line.” 4 . She said, ”we aim to ensure that Independent Safety Assessment for signalling and train control, platform screen doors and rolling stock subsystems for Mumbai Metro Line 3 are done within stipulated timelines.” . Mumbai Metro line-3 is a 33.5 km long underground corridor running along Colaba- Bandra-SEEPZ. Length of the corridor is marked with 27 key stations out of which 26 will be underground and 1 at grade. The 33.5 km long corridor running along Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ, envisages to decongest the traffic situation in Greater Mumbai. Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRC) is the nodal agency responsible for the implementation of the project. It has been constituted as a JV of the Govt. of India (GOI) and the Government of Maharashtra (GOM) on 50:50 sharing basis. Mumbai Metro: Here's all you need to know about the entire City Network; India Updated: Sep. 13, 2019, 08:46 IST | Rajendra B. Aklekar; mid-day The Mumbai Metro is now proposed to be a 14 Corridor Network of about 337.10 km being built at the Cost of 1,40,814 Crores with an expected daily Ridership of 142.90 Lakh by 2031. This Picture of Mumbai Metro has been used for representational Purpose only When Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stones for the three new Metro Lines, that will serve the city and also the Metropolitan Region, a larger picture of how many Metro corridors will operate in Mumbai and nearby areas have emerged. As of now September 12, 2018 a total of 14 Metro lines will be built in the city and are scheduled to get completed by 2031. The comprehensive Metro network will cover areas including Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan-Badlapur and even industrial areas of Bhiwandi and Taloja. 5 Modi in Mumbai on September 7 laid the foundation stone of Mumbai Metro Lines 10, 11 and 12. While the 9.2 km long Gaimukh to Shivaji Chowk (Mira Road) Metro-10 corridor and 20.7 km long Kalyan to Taloja Metro-12 corridor will serve the region; the 12.8 km long Wadala to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Metro-11 corridor will ease commuters to SoBo from the Central suburb Wadala. The Mumbai Metro is now a proposed to be a 14 corridor network of about 337.10 km being built at the cost of 1,40,814 crores with an expected daily ridership of 142.90 lakh by 2031 (see photo below): 6 Metro-1: Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar Corridor The first 11.40 km Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar Metro corridor has been commissioned on June 8, 2014.