Sustainable safe freight growth
Asset management is one of five key risk areas that industry will address through the Rail Health and Safety Strategy (the Strategy). The risk area covers asset integrity and freight safety.
Introduction
Freight is rapidly evolving, reliable, safe, and green sector that contributes £2.45bn to the economy annually. To achieve further growth to meet the government’s 2050 target of a 75% increase requires reliable and safe delivery of services.
Improved collaboration and the development and application of data-led good practice approaches across freight operators will be key.
The Strategy is aiming to achieve ‘sustainable safe freight growth’. The strategic initiatives to address this critical risk area are listed below.
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Strategic initiatives:
- Risk relating to freight fleet condition and underlying causes better understood
- Develop metric for freight wagon failure risk
- Development of a one source approach for freight data across the industry
- Improvements in compatibility between train preparation and maintenance specifications
- Common strategy for freight safety data
- Freight vehicle condition meets safety and performance needs of the industry
Freight Topics
Additional information
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Data and performance documents
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Other asset management topics
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Related content
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Relevant Risk Groups
- Freight Technical Committee
- National Freight Safety Group
- Freight Safe Steering Group
- Rail Freight Operations Group
- Rolling Stock – Freight Wagons Technical Specification for Interoperability - National Technical Specification Notice Mirror Group
- Telematic Applications for Freight and Passenger Services TSI NTSN Mirror Group
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