Regional Rail Fleet (NSW) – Recommendations for WA

The report discusses about the different kind of imminent risks that could approach to the project based on the development of new trains. The project is concerned for the development of new trains that would be helpful for the NSW Government.

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Executive Summary
The report discusses about the different kind of imminent risks that could approach to the project
based on the development of new trains. The project is concerned for the development of new
trains that would be helpful for the NSW Government. The responsibility for the project has been
undertaken by Momentum Trains and they are designing the entire project. The report discusses
about the various forms of risks, the response elements and the risk management plan that needs
to approached for mitigating the risks. The report also discusses about the recommendations that
should be implemented within the project for helping the project to mitigate the risk scenarios
and thus generate profits for the organisation.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................2
2. Discussion....................................................................................................................................2
2.1 Possible Risk Treatments/Response Elements......................................................................2
2.2 Risk Management Plan..........................................................................................................5
2.3 Recommendations regarding the project...............................................................................8
3. Conclusion.................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

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1. Introduction
In this paper, the main topic of study is based on the NSW regional fleet development
documents are studied. From the analysis over the case study, it has been seen that the NSW
government has initiated a project based on replacing the ageing NSW regional fleet that was
based on XPLORER, XPT and Endeavour trains. The current trains that are facilitated are mostly
36 years old. The NSW Government is on the process of creating a new train maintenance
facility, which would be built in Dubbo in order to stimulate the regional economy and thus help
in creating infrastructure for the purpose of creating new job skills and opportunities (Regional
Rail Transport for NSW, 2019). With the facilitation of new trains for the area, it has been
estimated that the new trains would help in improving the comfort, accessibility, reliability and
safety of the customers who would travel from Sydney to different other regional countries in
NSW, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra.
In order to develop the project based on Regional Rail Fleet, the NSW Government has
majorly delivered the contract to Momentum Trains. The contract mainly includes different
aspects of the project such as designing a plan, building, maintaining and thus also operate the
new purpose of fleet maintenance facility in Dubbo region (New Intercity Fleet Transport for
NSW, 2019). The initiation of the project would begin from 2019 and the initial fleet of trains
would be expected to run by the year 2023. The full fleet of trains would initiate their service in a
progressive manner.

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2. Discussion
2.1 Possible Risk Treatments/Response Elements
The risks that could approach towards the project are based on technical risks, financial
risks, political instability, manpower or human resources, risks during construction period, risks
during operation period and natural hazards.
The possible risk treatment or response elements that could be applicable to the project
are:
Risk Response Strategies
Risks Risk Statement Risk Response
Technical
design of
the project
There could be some form of problems in the
survey file or the project plan file that could
lead to perform of rework within the aspects
of technical design of the project.
Mitigate: In order to mitigate the risks,
the design of the project plan should be
highly accurate and complete (Reich,
Gemino & Sauer, 2014). Additional
surveys should also be conducted in
order to gain a perfect idea of the project.
The technical designers of the project might
not be efficient with the use of software used
within the project.
Avoid: The making of design or
planning for changes should be done in
order to help in designing of the project
(Smith, Merna & Jobling, 2014).
Efficient software should be used in
which they would be compatible for
designing the project plan.
Financial
Risks
The NSW Government might not fund the
project in an advanced manner. The sponsor
of the project might pay the payment for the
entire project in certain installments (Daniel,
Ward & Franken, 2014). This kind of
facilitation of payments might not be
acceptable by the project manager at
Momentum Trains.
Mitigate: The plan for the development
of the project should be finalized before
the start of the project. Extra
assumptions should be made about the
changes that could be made within the
project. The assumption of extra funds
for the project would help in proper
development of the project performance.
There might be certain escalation of costs Mitigate: During the progress of the

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that would be incurred within the project
during the design of the project (Carbonara
et al., 2015). After the project has initiated,
there might be some areas in which the costs
could escalate such as the increase of costs
of materials or other budgetary changes.
project, the project manager should have
a discussion with the project sponsor
about the intrinsic details that would be
included within the project.
Risks during
the
Operational
Period
There might be certain risks based on the
danger of impacts from the project. The
impacts based on the certain kind of changes
that would be made within a project might
be large (Dindar, Kaewunruen & An, 2018).
This might negatively impact towards the
development of the project.
Mitigate: The project manager should
define such kind of strategies that would
be taken for reducing or mitigating the
negative impacts from the made changes
within the project. Such kind of
situations as controlling the impacts from
the increase of the costs incurred within
the project could be controlled by the
project manager within the project.
There could be some kind of deficiency in
the measures taken during ecological risks.
During the development of the project, there
might be several kind of ecological
imbalances within the project.
Avoid: The project manager should
conduct a risk assessment based on the
ecological disturbances that could impact
the project (Guo et al., 2014). Based on
gaining a knowledge about the
ecological imbalances within the project,
the project manager should develop a
plan for avoiding the use of such
resources, which could negatively impact
the project and cause an ecological
instability for the project.
Risks during
Constructio
n Period
The risks could be based on the fact that
there might be interruption in power for the
project. The supply of power for the project
might be interrupted due to several reasons
such as the lack of proper negotiation with
the Electric Supply Board at NSW.
Mitigate: The risks based on
interruption in power supply could be
mitigated by signing a negotiation
contract with the Electric Supply Board,
who would then be responsible for
supplying uninterrupted power for the
development of the project.
There might not be a proper infrastructure
based on removing the plan for
contamination of water supply (Davies et al.,
2014). The contamination of water supply
would occur due to the waste that will be
extracted from the construction activities.
Mitigate: The risks based on reducing
the contamination of water could be
reduced by using proper resources for
reducing the contamination of water that
would be logging due to improper
drainage functionalities within the
project (Wu, Fang & Li, 2015).

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2.2 Risk Management Plan
The development of the risk management plan that would be included within the project would also help in identifying the
positive and negative risks that might be affecting the project.
Risks Implications Risk Type Risk Level Impact Mitigation/Contingency
The
initiation of
the project
does not
start from
the
scheduled
project date
1. Lead to delay in the work of
the project. Delay in starting of
the project would lead to delay
in the finish of the project
(Hamzaoui et al., 2015).
2. Late finish of the completion
of the project could lead to
damage to the reputation for
Momentum Trains and this
might affect the future projects
that they would handle.
Negative High High The project manager and the consultant team should
properly estimate the scenarios of the initiation of the
project. They should be thus responsible for
arranging the materials that would be needed for the
development of train coaches (Adam, Josephson &
Lindahl, 2015). They should also gather the resources
required and thus initiate the project work. This
would thus ensure that the project is completed
within the estimated time period and thus might lead
to delay in service delivery.
Risks during
the
developmen
t and
construction
period
1. The lack of proper power
supply would lead to
complications in making use of
technical services during the
development period.
2. The lack of a proper drainage
system would lead to
contamination of water in the
workshop where the coaches
would be designed (Rumane,
2017). This could lead to
Negative Medium Medium The management team at Momentum Trains should
contact the Electric Supply Department in order to
handle the issues that are faced in the management of
electric supply. A negotiation contract should be
signed with the departmental head of the Electric
Supply Board, which would ensure that there would
be an uninterrupted supply of power during the
project development phase.
The workshop in which the development of the
railway coaches would be done should have a proper
infrastructure (Hirschman, 2014). This would ensure

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stoppage of work of the project. that there is no contamination of water that would be
extracted during the construction of the project.
Financial
Risks in the
Project
1. The payment for the project in
an instalment phase would lead
to proper execution of the phases
of the project (Ebrat & Ghodsi,
2014). The payment would be
done after the completion of
each of the phase of the project.
2. The costs within the project
might get escalated due to
increase in the costs for each of
the resources of the project. This
would lead to fluctuation in the
estimation for the costs of the
project.
Positive Medium Medium Ensuring that the payment for the project to be done
in an instalment phase, it would result that the project
would be completed in a phased wised manner. The
initiation of each of the stages of the project would
initiate after a certain payment has been made
(Ayyub, 2014). This would ensure the successful
payment to each of the staff members of the project.
The costs within the project might be escalated due to
increase in the costs of certain specific resources
required in the project. These inflated costs should be
taken into account and thus the project manager
should plan the revised financial plan (Takey & de
Carvalho, 2015). This plan would be presented to the
project sponsor in order to sanction the payments that
would be done during procuring of the project.
The project manager should maintain a regular form
of communication with the project sponsor and thus
give them with the regular kind of updates about the
changing scenarios in relation to cost that are
affecting the project (Milosevic & Martinelli, 2016).
This would help them in gaining knowledge about
the present scenario of the project and thus they think
of proper strategies in order to revise on the planning
of the project.
Risks during
the
1. The work over the project
might incur some impacts,
Negative Medium Low The project manager should conduct a risk
assessment before the start of the project. A proper

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operation
period
which could lead to danger
during operations of the project
(Furlong et al., 2017). These
impacts might lead to dangers
for the future work over the
project.
2. A lack of proper ecological
measures for the project could
lead to negative impacts for the
project.
strategy should be defined prior to start of the project
(Ashworth & Perera, 2018). Based on the defined
strategies, resources should be gathered in order to
mitigate the negative impacts that have been affecting
the project.
The project manager should ensure that there are
proper form of ecological measures that should be
taken for development of the project.

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2.3 Recommendations regarding the project
In order to mitigate the approached risks towards the project, the following
recommendations could be approached for the project are:
Identification of the most possible options – After the evaluated risks have been
identified, the project manager at Momentum Trains would take certain steps in order to decide
on some strategies for the development of the project. The project manager should design some
treatment and management options based on the selected risks. This would ensure a positive
outcome for the project. These include:
1. The likelihood of the risks should be modified in order to increase the benefits towards
the project.
2. The risks that are incurred for the project should be shared among other parties
involved within the project. In certain situations where the approached risks could be resolved
with the implication of extra resources, these resources should be implemented within the
project.
Development of an Action Plan – The treatment plans for the approached risks towards
the train development project would be important to understand for the management of actions,
making of time for mitigation and measuring of quality performances for the progress of the
project. Each of the risks within the project such as financial, technical, operational and risks
based on technical development of the project should be properly be discussed with the entire
team of the project. The project manager should design a mitigation strategy for each of the risks
within the project. The ranking of each of the risks should be determined and their likelihood of

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impact over the project should also be measured. This would help in planning of the next step for
improvement of the project.
Approval for the Plan of Action – After the project manager has designed the
mitigation plan, it should be approved by the project sponsor and other supervisors of the project.
This would ensure the successful mitigation of the possible risks occurring within the project.
As per the present case study, it has been discussed that the current project focuses on the
financial risks, constructional risks, operational and technical risks. The project manager should
ensure that the financial risks involved within the project should be discussed with each of the
stakeholders involved within the project. Each of the costs allocated for resources within the
project should be taken in full details and a revised financial plan should be planned.
The risks during the constructional phase such as the interrupted power supply and the
contamination of water at the workshop should be properly be taken care of. The management
team at NSW Government should contact the Electric Supply Board and thus sign a negotiation
contract in order to mitigate the situation. On the other hand, the contamination of water coming
from extracted wastes of constructional activities could be removed by taking care of the
maintenance work over the project. The conditions of the workshop should be improved further
in order to enhance the infrastructure of work in the project.
The discussed risks within the operational period such as the incoming risks based on
impacts should be removed by the project manager. The project manager should also ensure that
the best kind of ecological measures should be taken in order to reduce the negative impacts over
the project.

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The most important risk that should be mitigated from the project is based on the
financial impacts that affect the project. The different financial risks that are incurable for the
project is based on escalating costs of resources required within the project. Hence, the project
manager should design the financial plan by taking care of each of the present cost of resources
within the project. This would highly ensure the sustainability of the project and result in timely
delivery of the project.
3. Conclusion
Based on the discussions supported in the report, it could be concluded that the discussed
risks that are occurring over the project should be mitigated at the possible earliest time. The
risks that incur during the construction work over the project should be highly taken as a
situation of priority. The priority should be set for the risks that incur for the project. Based on
the setting of priority for each of the concerned risks within the project, the project managers
should conduct an assessment and then plan for the best suitable action that would be taken for
mitigating them. In this project, the NSW Government is in high need for the regional rail fleet
project. They need to develop new trains that would provide some additional benefits for the
passengers. Hence, they have given the responsibility to Momentum Trains who would be
entirely be responsible for financing, designing, building and performing future maintenance
work over the project. Hence, in order to ensure a proper project sustainability, the possible risks
within the project should be mitigated. This would highly ensure the sustainability of the project
and result in timely delivery of the project.

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