Project Management: Regional Rail Fleet (NSW)

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Project Management
Assignment 1, Case Study: Project - Regional Rail Fleet (NSW)
Name of the Student
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Table of Contents
Background......................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review............................................................................................................................3
Risk framework and Identification of Risk.................................................................................4
The Western Australian Government’s need for the project...........................................................6
The feasibility of the project............................................................................................................7
Both negative as well as positive risk events/conditions present in the Western Australian
scenario............................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Background
There has been demand of urban rail passenger transport in Australia has been increasing
and configured rail systems have been experiencing heavy computer traffic in morning and
afternoon peak periods catering from standard CBD workday. Traditional passenger rail system
have been investing in new infrastructure and stock services (Balendran et al., 2017). This
project has been initiated by NSW government for replacing old NSW rail fleet of XPT,
XPLORER and Endeavor trains. This project has been initiated to increase job opportunities and
skills in the country. The old trains have been overcrowded during office hours. Passengers feel
discomfort in travelling with old trains. Crowding of services has led to dissatisfaction of
customers and pressurizing rail operators and government for solving this crowding issue. The
expense for improving the infrastructure for meeting demand of passengers have been initiated
with this new project of NSW. The NSW government has provided the contract to deliver
Regional rail Fleet Project to Momentum Trains.
Literature Review
The Australian Railway system has been facing a lot of problems regarding overcrowding
and discomfort of passengers. The trains have been old and made up of traditional design and
infrastructure. Therefore, during peak time, trains suffered form overcrowding. This create a
huge issue in the travelling of the individuals in the railways (Dunnett & Gregory, 2017).
Various accidents and incidents might occur due to overcrowding. Therefore, Australian
government has taken an initiative to transform all old model trains into new model. A project
has been initiated under NSW government. The NSW government has been replacing all ageing
NSW regional rail fleet into new models. These new trains will help in improving safety,
accessibility and comfort for customers who used to travel from Sydney to different part of NSW

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including Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane (Kaewunruen & Remennikov, 2016). The NSW
government has provided the contract to Momentum Trains. Momentum Trains is an internal
consortium that include UGL, CAF rail services, CAF Investment Projects and DIF
Infrastructure V Cooperatief. This project include designing, project financing, building,
maintaining and operating new purpose built fleet maintenance in Dubbo. The new fleet of
intercity trains will be come in service in 2019 running from Sydney to Central Coast,
Newcastle, the Blue Mountains and the South Coast. There have been various benefits of this
project including Improved availability, upgraded security, improved solace and present day
highlights including: more extensive, progressively roomy two-by-two seating for additional
room and solace with arm rests, plate tables, and high seat backs, charging ports for cell phones,
and committed spaces for baggage, prams and bikes, improved availability including wheelchair
get to and open toilets, improved client data through advanced data screens and declarations,
CCTV and help focuses, and present day warming, ventilation and cooling (Anderson et al.,
2018). Increasingly agreeable and utilitarian plan including reversible seating, open smorgasbord
vehicles and overhead gear stock, Open toilets on each train, more extensive entryways, single-
deck carriages, need seating and available help focuses, Programmed particular entryway
opening for stations with short stages and current CCTV hardware, Electronic gadget charging
focuses, plate tables reasonable for workstations and roomy seat pockets. For satisfy future
increments in need, the New Intercity Fleet will increment to an aggregate of 554 carriages with
the buy of an additional 42 carriages. The majority of the new carriages will keep running on the
South Coast Line to help top hour administrations from 8 carriage trains to 10 carriages and will
enter task from 2021 (Li et al., 2017).
Risk framework and Identification of Risk