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28-07-2017, 05:20 AM
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SINGAPORE — Rail operators have loftier rail reliability standards to live up to by 2020, with Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan setting a new target for rail reliability in 2020 to improve seven times from 2015’s standards.
The new 2020 target is 1 million train-km, measured as mean kilometres between failure (MKBF) or average distance trains can travel before hitting delays of more than five minutes.
Speaking at the Fourth Joint Forum on Infrastructure Maintenance on Thursday (July 27), Mr Khaw, who is also the Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure, noted that overall train frequency between delays of more than five minutes have risen from 133,000km in 2015 to nearly 400,000km as of the first half of this year, based on preliminary data which exclude the delays due to testing of the new signalling system. That is an improvement of nearly three times.
Rail operators have also exceeded this year’s target of 300,000 train-km, and are on track to meet the 400,000 train-km target next year and 800,000 train-km by 2020. In addition, the number of major delays has also gone down from 10 in the first half of 2016 to three over the same period this year.
While this is a “satisfactory outcome”, the minister said: “This is not yet the steady state we are hoping for, but versus what we had inherited two years ago, I think this is maybe C+. Next year we should go for B. The following year, certainly before election, must be an A.”
But he also said the initial target of 800,000 train-km by 2020 was set last year, before Taipei Metro, regarded as the world’s best rail system, “upped the game” to achieve 1 million train-km last year. So referencing the “best in class performance”, he decided to increase Singapore’s 2020 rail reliability target as well.
Touching on the re-signalling project on the North-South Line (NSL), Mr Khaw implored commuters to be patient as train delays are bound to occur as engineers sort out the teething problems that will surface due to the re-signalling work that is being carried out.
While several delays and congestion did emerge as expected, he said this allowed engineers to fix the glitches before the new system is properly launched.
“Overall, the experience has actually been less traumatic than what we had feared,” he added.
The only exception, he pointed out, was the major disruption on June 28, which was due to a mistake made by the engineering team from Thales – the system supplier. An incompatible radio was connected to the system, which caused a sudden congestion on the network, resulting in all trains on the NSL and Tuas West Extension to lose radio communications.
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore...gher-standards (http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/rail-reliability-has-improved-khaw-sets-new-higher-standards)
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http://blog.omy.sg/shinmin/files/2017/07/SM27-SHI-001-00.jpg
SINGAPORE — Rail operators have loftier rail reliability standards to live up to by 2020, with Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan setting a new target for rail reliability in 2020 to improve seven times from 2015’s standards.
The new 2020 target is 1 million train-km, measured as mean kilometres between failure (MKBF) or average distance trains can travel before hitting delays of more than five minutes.
Speaking at the Fourth Joint Forum on Infrastructure Maintenance on Thursday (July 27), Mr Khaw, who is also the Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure, noted that overall train frequency between delays of more than five minutes have risen from 133,000km in 2015 to nearly 400,000km as of the first half of this year, based on preliminary data which exclude the delays due to testing of the new signalling system. That is an improvement of nearly three times.
Rail operators have also exceeded this year’s target of 300,000 train-km, and are on track to meet the 400,000 train-km target next year and 800,000 train-km by 2020. In addition, the number of major delays has also gone down from 10 in the first half of 2016 to three over the same period this year.
While this is a “satisfactory outcome”, the minister said: “This is not yet the steady state we are hoping for, but versus what we had inherited two years ago, I think this is maybe C+. Next year we should go for B. The following year, certainly before election, must be an A.”
But he also said the initial target of 800,000 train-km by 2020 was set last year, before Taipei Metro, regarded as the world’s best rail system, “upped the game” to achieve 1 million train-km last year. So referencing the “best in class performance”, he decided to increase Singapore’s 2020 rail reliability target as well.
Touching on the re-signalling project on the North-South Line (NSL), Mr Khaw implored commuters to be patient as train delays are bound to occur as engineers sort out the teething problems that will surface due to the re-signalling work that is being carried out.
While several delays and congestion did emerge as expected, he said this allowed engineers to fix the glitches before the new system is properly launched.
“Overall, the experience has actually been less traumatic than what we had feared,” he added.
The only exception, he pointed out, was the major disruption on June 28, which was due to a mistake made by the engineering team from Thales – the system supplier. An incompatible radio was connected to the system, which caused a sudden congestion on the network, resulting in all trains on the NSL and Tuas West Extension to lose radio communications.
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore...gher-standards (http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/rail-reliability-has-improved-khaw-sets-new-higher-standards)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?245467-Khaw-I-Will-Improve-MRT-Reliability-From-C-To-A-In-2-Years!-PAP!-PAP!&goto=newpost).