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Location

Location is fundamental to managing your day-to-day business:

  • forecasting and recording train arrival times
  • analysing passenger travel patterns and identifying future growth or congestion corridors
  • freight locomotives tracking
  • property management 
  • enabling self-service inter-modal travel planning by your passengers using sites likeTransport Direct
  • inter-modal freight routing, from port to rail and from rail to road

  • providing local station information, including passenger connectivity and car park availability. 

Geographical information

Geographic information can also assist planning for safety and risk,  for example, a Virgin Pendolino derailment near the Lake District entailed the evacuation of its passengers in the dark down an embankment and across muddy fields to waiting ambulances.

Detailed mapping with appropriate visualisation via imagery enables the emergency planner to see how best to access the stranded passenger in, for example, a cutting.

Network Rail's geographical information system, Marling GIS. combines Ordnance Survey digital mapping of the entire railway network with a range of geo-datasets containing information on the ownership and status of the railway estate.

Whether it is passenger information, emergency access or asset management, geographic information delivers a common platform on which the rail industry plans, operates and delivers an ever-improving service.

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