Project Management

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management
Assignment 1, Case Study: Project - Regional Rail Fleet (NSW)
Name of the Student
Name of the University

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Table of Contents
Background......................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review............................................................................................................................3
Risk framework and Identification of Risk.....................................................................................5
The Western Australian Government’s need for the project...........................................................7
The feasibility of the project............................................................................................................8
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 request of urban rail traveler transport in Australia has been expanding
and arranged rail frameworks have been encountering overwhelming PC traffic in morning and
evening top periods providing food from standard CBD workday. Conventional traveler rail
framework have been putting resources into new foundation and stock administrations
(Profillidis, 2016). This venture has been started by NSW government for supplanting old NSW
rail armada of XPT, XPLORER and Endeavor trains. This venture has been started to build
openings for work and abilities in the nation. The old trains have been packed amid available
time. Travelers feel distress in going with old trains. Swarming of administrations has prompted
disappointment of clients and pressurizing rail administrators and government for illuminating
this swarming issue. The cost for improving the framework for fulfilling need of travelers have
been started with this new venture of NSW. The NSW government has given the agreement to
convey Regional rail Fleet Project to Momentum Trains.
Literature Review
The Australian Railway framework has been confronting a great deal of issues in regards
to congestion and distress of travelers. The trains have been old and comprised of customary
structure and framework. Accordingly, amid pinnacle time, trains endured structure stuffing.
This make an immense issue in the going of the people in the railroads (Albrecht & Dasigi,
2016). Different mishaps and occurrences may happen due to congestion. In this way, Australian
government has showed a drive to change all old model trains into new model. An undertaking
has been started under NSW government. The NSW government has been supplanting all
maturing NSW territorial rail armada into new models. These new trains will help in improving
security, availability and solace for clients who used to make a trip from Sydney to various piece

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of NSW including Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane (Aragonés-Beltrán, García-Melón &
Montesinos-Valera, 2017). The NSW government has given the agreement to Momentum Trains.
Force Trains is an inward consortium that incorporate UGL, CAF rail administrations, CAF
Investment Projects and DIF Infrastructure V Cooperatief. This undertaking incorporate
planning, venture financing, assembling, keeping up and working new reason constructed
armada support in Dubbo. The new armada of intercity trains will be come in administration in
2019 running from Sydney to Central Coast, Newcastle, the Blue Mountains and the South
Coast. There have been different advantages of this venture including Improved accessibility,
overhauled security, improved comfort and present day features including: increasingly broad,
dynamically ample two-by-two seating for extra room and comfort with arm rests, plate tables,
and high seat backs, charging ports for mobile phones, and submitted spaces for things, prams
and bicycles, improved accessibility including wheelchair get to and open toilets, improved
customer information through cutting edge information screens and presentations, CCTV and
help centers, and present day warming, ventilation and cooling (Mikaeil et al., 2016).
Progressively pleasing and utilitarian arrangement including reversible seating, open buffet
vehicles and overhead apparatus stock, Open toilets on each train, increasingly broad portals,
single-deck carriages, need seating and accessible help centers, Programmed specific door
opening for stations with short stages and ebb and flow CCTV equipment, Electronic contraption
charging centers, plate tables sensible for workstations and spacious seat pockets. For fulfill
future augmentations in need, the New Intercity Fleet will addition to a total of 554 carriages
with the purchase of an extra 42 carriages. Most of the new carriages will continue running on
the South Coast Line to help top hour organizations from 8 carriage trains to 10 carriages and
will enter undertaking from 2021 (Lobo & Whyte, 2017).