Welcome to the Railway Innovation & Performance Centre
.....combining cross-sector technology solutions and advances within good-practice to improve safety and reduce operating costs.
.....a strategic partnership between railway stakeholders and the cross-sector community to accelerate the pace of technology change.
.....an global network of experience and innovative capability to advance safety and engineering performance across the supply chain.
.....an interactive network for evolving new innovations and advanced solutions to current and emerging railway problems.
.....removing barriers to the rapid transfer of railway engineering good-practice and technology solutions to market.
.....evolving new applications for established cross-sector processes and technology solutions.
.....sharing skills and good practice to build a cross-sector business ecosystem for the railway community.
The strategic railway partnership
- Reduces the costs, risks and timescales associated with the delivery of innovative solutions to market
- Enables railway specifications to be evolved in parallel with the technology solution to facilitate product acceptance
- Establishes a clear route to market
Driving cross-sector innovation for the rail industry
New technology innovations and good-practice systems are evolved from a global cross-sector industry network by using a process of deconstruction . To pass a technology or system through the network, and to examine its potential to contribute to the development of solutions to current and emerging railway engineering problems, click here for further details.
Corporate Sponsors
Today London Underground is a major business, with over 3 million passenger journeys a day, some 500 peak trains, 253 stations owned (275 served), over 12,000 staff and vast engineering assets.
The Metronet Rail Group, whose shareholders are five world-class companies, is responsible for upgrading, replacing and maintaining two-thirds of London Underground's infrastructure – its trains, stations, signalling, track, tunnels and bridges - under a 30 - year Public Private Partnership contract which came into operation in April 2003.
Tube Lines works in partnership with London Underground and is rebuilding the Jubilee line, Northern line and Piccadilly line. We are working on the largest improvement programme the Tube has ever seen. Take a journey through our site to discover how we are delivering an outstanding Tube for London.
The UK Department for Transport is working to deliver a transport system which balances the needs of the economy, the environment and society.
