National foreword

This Published Document is the UK implementation of ISO/TR 21245:2018. It supersedes PD ISO/TR 21245‑2:2016 and PD ISO/TR 21245‑1:2016, which are withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee RAE/1, Railway Applications.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary.

This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application.

Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.

This Published Document was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 December 2018.

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 269, Railway applications.

This first edition of ISO/TR 21245 cancels and replaces ISO/TR 21245‑1:2016 and ISO/TR 21245‑2:2016, which have been technically revised.

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Introduction

Railway is a superior transport mode in terms of safety and transport capacity and has a very low environmental impact as compared to other modes. Owing to their highly public nature, railway systems can contribute to sustainable economic development in the world with the sound consideration of environment, by means of shortening and leading to predictable travelling time, reducing traffic congestion, developing distribution network, fostering tourism industry, etc.

With these merits of railways, the market of railway has been expanding worldwide, and some countries and regions have experiences of conducting railway projects. In fact, a wide variety of railways are planned across the world, such as urban transit systems for enhancing smoothness of intra-city traffic or improving connectivity with other transportation modes, high speed railways interoperable between different countries/lines or operated on a dedicated line with simple assets, and freight railway systems to transport bulk freight by heavy-haul trains or to reduce environmental impacts like CO₂ emission.

However, it is difficult to gain outcomes as expected due to the complexity of railway systems, as shown in 4.5, especially for organizations without accumulated experiences of railway projects.

Therefore, reviewing and organizing every factor smoothly and efficiently have been challenging due to a lack of standards for appropriate railway project planning.

This document provides guidance for a successful planning process, aimed at helping those engaged in railway project by identifying key points to be considered. It also helps those experienced in railway projects by avoiding:

possible pitfalls in the planning process such as short-sightedness;
lack of balanced consideration;
reworking due to overlooking important factors;
extra time and cost.

While ISO 21500 is a generic project management standard and does not provide guidance on or discuss any specific aspects in a project field, this document assists planners or decision makers involved in the railway project planning process by incorporating specific characteristics of railway projects.

The goal of this document is to achieve desirable planning of various railway projects which provide benefits to society by underlining key points of the planning process of railway projects to all players, such as planners, consultants, suppliers, governments, clients, capital investors, etc. For players who already have experiences of railway projects, this standard provide benefits where they can strengthen technical validities, plausibility, accountability, unintentional/balanced/harmonized fairness and open/clear/logical/persuasive (transparency) of their proposal, commercial products etc. This document can also be beneficial to players without an experience of railway projects as it provides knowledge to compensate for this lack of experience and thus promote an efficient planning of railway projects. As a result of these, deliverables based on this document will also give indirect benefits to other stakeholders including end users (passengers, consignors).

1 Scope

This document provides guidance on railway project planning for decision making.

This document explores the key points of railway project planning, based upon the principles of ISO 21500, by incorporating characteristics specific to railway projects.

This document covers:

the characteristics of railway projects;
stakeholders and their needs/interests;
conditions;
the definition of each process in a railway project;
key points of planning process;
correlation and causality among principal factors to be considered.

This document can be used by any type of organization, including public, private or community organizations, and be applied to any type of railway project, irrespective of its complexity, size, duration, etc.

However, this document provides neither detailed requirements nor specific processes for:

certification;
deriving a unique solution (specification for particular systems/products);
decision making itself.

Topics pertaining to general projects are addressed only within the context of railway projects.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Specificities of railway projects

4.1 General

4.2 Capital aspect of railway projects

4.3 Stakeholders of railway projects

4.4 Long life cycle of railway projects

4.5 High technical integration and complexity of railway systems

5 Overview of each process within a railway project

6 Guidance for initiating process and planning process

7 Listing factors to be taken into account

8 Railway project stakeholders needs and interests

8.1 General

8.2 Administrative authorities

8.3 Passengers

8.4 Consignors

8.5 Owners of rolling stock

8.6 Owners of infrastructure

8.7 Managers (keepers) of rolling stock

8.8 Infrastructure managers

8.9 Railway undertakings

8.10 Infrastructure operators

8.11 Construction contractors/suppliers

8.12 Persons/organizations engaged in related transport modes

8.13 Others

9 Conditions

9.1 General

9.2 Natural conditions

9.3 Economic and social conditions affecting railway projects

9.4 Existing railway system facilities

10 Consideration of correlation and causality of factors

11 Prioritization and weighting

12 Seeking solutions

13 Case study

Bibliography

PD ISO/TR 21245:2018

Railway applications. Railway project planning process. Guidance on railway project planning

Current

Published:

31 Dec 2018