Refurbishment of Adelaide Railway Station

SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
STAKEHOLDER NEEDS..............................................................................................................1
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN PROCESS.............................................................................................2
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS..........................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The content of this report will be based on a particular governmental project to increase
public facilities in terms of transportation. The study will be based upon the suitability, need and
execution of the project in terms of its designing process, system requirements and stakeholder’s
needs.
The project of refurbishing railway station of Adelaide will be taken into consideration.
This public transport establishment is located in North Terrace, Adelaide and project was
launched in 2012 and accomplished by 2015 to increase the capacity of establishment to cater
large volume of public. The project had an aim to provide all sorts of facilities from escalators,
advanced signage systems and additional utilities to deliver utmost comfort to people. The total
cost and capital investment for this project ranged up to 2 billion dollars. The report will also
highlight some basic analysis that was conducted by executive committee of project to increase
the effectiveness of design plan.
STAKEHOLDER NEEDS
The project was started in order to rectify some major issues within the establishment.
Prior to the revitalization of railway station, there were number of problems associated with the
passengers comfort and facilities. The project was initiated with detailed analysis of
stakeholders’ needs which includes the surrounding community, employees and routine
commuters to the service area (Spriggs, 2017). The fundamental approach to fulfil stakeholders’
needs was to stratify their demands and requirements and its suitability with the project.
The initiatives regarding refurbishment of railway platform is one of the complex project of
South Australian government which was headed by the department of transport, energy and
infrastructure. The fundamental aim of project was to minimise the disruption caused to the
passengers through any sort of rail services and functions provided within the establishment
(Love et.al., 2017).
The project had some elementary objective to reach up to the design mark of standardized
rail services. The stakeholders for the concerned project were mainly the community, passengers,
employees providing services and the designers who designed and executed the plan of
developing railway station's infrastructure.
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The need of all type of designers, management team and coordinators was fulfilled by the
application of suitable engagement approaches. It was strategically plant with the help of
advanced digital communication, consulting and monitoring systems. Advanced information
systems were set up to facilitate the project and increase all type of communication processes.
The systems facilitating delivery of information were strengthened and continuously monitored
to deliver smooth working platform to the action committee or workers associated with the
project (Hubka & Eder, 2012).
To adequately look after the needs of passengers and routine commuters off the platform,
sufficient analysis were conducted in terms of provision of basic utilities present within the
platform. The ambience of station was transformed to increase the value of services provided and
to decrease the level of disruption to passengers visiting the platform. Furthermore, construction
of new track side and drainage systems was also focused. Construction of new entrance,
installation of escalators and up gradation of public toilets has made the arcade most suitable and
comfortable than before (Rowland et.al., 2019). Moreover, the construction has increased the
level of retail offerings and other tenancy facilities to increase the opportunities for leasing
arrangements which addressed the needs and demands of commercial sectors and bodies of
Adelaide.
The need of workers were fulfilled by providing them required facilities in terms of
shelters, foods and provision of wages specified as per the law (Guzman, Young and Peszynski,
2018). Moreover, the facilities related to alternatives and other plans and strategies as per the
arisen situations and conditions were also needed to be planned. Proper arrangement of mapping
systems for assessing the conditions of connected railway lines was one of the needs for proper
execution of the project (Pasquire et.al. 2011). The components related to facilitate the
operations of Adelaide railway station’s refurbishment were highly promoted during the
execution of overall project.
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN PROCESS
The process of designing any type of public services or transport establishment, there is a
need of proper utilization of resources, developing suitable strategies based on practicality and
assessments of risks need to be addressed. The designing of overall Adelaide railway station's
refurbishment was operated by collaborative team of different departments of planning, transport
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