Siemens Supporting a s ustainable mode of transport User Manual

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The Norwegian capital Oslo is the
2019 European Green Capital – in
recognition of the city's many efforts
towards a sustainable way of life.
Public transport, and especially the
subway as an alternative to your
own car, represents an important
pillar of the concept. A modern
r adiolocation solution from Siemens
helps the operator of the sub ways
to provide a high-performance and
attractive offering.

Supporting a
s ustainable mode
of transport

SIMATIC RTLS solution supports
subway operation in Oslo

“T-Bane,” tunnel railway, is what the people of Oslo lovingly call their subway,
although just 17 out of the 101 stations are actually underground. Founded in
1928, the 115trains operated at present carry almost 350,000 passengers daily
on a rail network spanning 86km. In order to achieve the ambitious climate
goals of the city of Oslo –reduce CO
becoming a car-free city –the subway network makes a significant contribution.
Notwithstanding the achievements made so far, Sporveien, the subway operator,
cannot rest on its laurels: Because if the residents of the Norwegian capital
are to do without the car, they need an attractive and increasingly powerful
a lternative – like the T-Bane.

emissions by 95% by 2030 and in doing so

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The trains are ser viced and repaired in the engineering workshops of Spor veien.

For years, the city, transport association, and operator
have been investing in the climate-friendly expansion of
the s ubway network. The train fleet has been undergoing
m odernization since 2007 and today is entirely equipped
with white, energy-efficient trains of the MX3000 series
from Siemens. New lines and stations are planned and
b eing implemented, such as the new Løren station on
Line4, which was opened to traffic in 2015. Sporveien is
currently working on increasing train frequency through
the central inner-city tunnel, which is shared by all lines:
In the future, 9–10trains per 15minutes are to be able to

Previously, there used to be more manual work-processes
in the depots – much due the position of the trains could
not be automatically synchronized with the digital work­shop system. Manual effort, hectic phone calls, and un­necessary searches were part of the daily routine of the
employees, which caused some process-inefficiency getting
the rolling stock ready. In particular, the manual search
processes, picking out the specific train at the correct
time, did cost time. Valuable service-time elapsed quickly
if an employee in the depot had to walk around in the yard

searching for a specific train.
pass through the bottleneck, which means a capacity
i ncrease of up to 25%.

Digitalization in the workshops

Behind the scenes, too, the modernization of the subway
system is being spurred on. Digitalization is the motto here
to automate planning processes, reduce failures, improve
flexibility, gain higher efficiency and decrease response
time. Numerous digital systems are already in use at
Sporveien – e.g. digital timetable and digital maintenance
records for the trains. However, digital systems can only
process the information that is fed to them. Posing a potential
problem here, were the depots and the manual processes
around parking-lot planning and physical parking of trains.

With the SIMATICRTLS gateways, the position of the vehicles is captured

to within a few centimeters.