Intelligent Infrastructure (II) is a five-year transformation programme (2019-2024) focused on turning data into intelligent information to improve services for passengers.
It does this by giving maintenance teams the insight they need to proactively fix faults before they cause delays.
How will the Intelligent Infrastructure programme achieve this?
Working with the regions and our industry partners II will use existing and emerging digital technology to monitor the network and collect, collate and analyse data on asset performance. This information will be presented in an easy to understand format to provide maintenance teams with the insight they need to plan work proactively.
By analysing this data, teams can predict when, where and why faults are likely to happen. This warning could be 28 days, 90 days or even a year before a repair is needed.
This insight gives maintenance teams time to plan their work when it is least disruptive; it gives them the ability to group tasks to make the best use of their time and resources on site, and gives them visibility of degradation rates and access to maintenance history for railway assets.
It means we will become better at fixing the network before it breaks by using data to predict failures and be proactive instead of reacting after things have gone wrong.
What are the benefits of the Intelligent Infrastructure programme for passengers?
The II Programme presents a ‘big picture’ view of how everything within the network is related and allows us to be better at stopping faults that can cause delays.
Informed decision making
Teams can see what areas on the railway need attention to prioritise work – which means fewer delays on the network.
Turning data into intelligent insight for maintenance teams means they can make safer more informed decisions.
Get home safely
With improved visibility of what, where and when assets need repairing, teams can reschedule maintenance work and reduce the number of potentially dangerous failures.
Get home on time
Proactively fixing more faults before they happen and avoiding maintenance during peak times. If faults don’t materialise, they don’t delay trains, and services are more reliable all round.
What tools are II delivering?
- Insight – a web-based decision support tool translating data into intelligence across the entire network in one place for the first time
- High-definition aerial imagery and 3D LiDAR mapping of the entire network
- New remote asset condition monitoring including at level crossings, embankments and overhead lines
- New standards and processes to ensure data quality and consistency
These new tools and capability will allow colleagues to carry out ‘predict and prevent' maintenance and introduce more effective workload planning.
See what we're delivering
Watch the video about out how we're turning data into intelligent information:
| Audio | Visual |
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| Network Rail logo appears | |
| Followed by the Intelligent Infrastructure logo with the strapline ‘delivering the data-driven railway’ | |
| Upbeat music begins | Computer animated train runs along track |
| Inside view of helicopter looking out | |
| A computer screen showing data being collected | |
| Upbeat music continues | The following words appear on a white background: |
| Information is revolutionary | |
| Information is predicting | |
| Information is empowering | |
| Information is intelligence | |
| Information is evolving | |
| Network Rail is evolving | |
| Network Rail is smarter | |
| Network Rail is advancing | |
| Network Rail is predicting | |
| Network Rail is preventing | |
| Network Rail is planning ahead | |
| Upbeat music continues | Yellow measurement train runs along the network |
| Inside the train staff are sat in front of screens overseeing data collection | |
| A helicopter flies overhead collecting aerial imagery | |
| Upbeat music continues | The following words appear on a white background: |
| Data collection is targeted | |
| Data collection is remote | |
| Data collection is monitored | |
| Data collection is evolving | |
| Data collection is innovative | |
| Data collection is whole system | |
| Data collection never stops | |
| Upbeat music continues | Inside the helicopter staff are capturing aerial imagery data. |
| Upbeat music continues | As the helicopter flies over the network it collects aerial imagery and digital terrain data. |
| Examples of data collected are highlighted over images of railway assets such as the track and a bridge to give an idea of how it can be used. | |
| Upbeat music continues | The following words appear on a white background: |
| Our decisions will be enhanced | |
| Our decisions will be evidence-based | |
| Our decisions will be proactive | |
| Our decisions will be predictive | |
| Our decisions will be supported | |
| Our decisions will be timely | |
| Our decisions will be safer | |
| Our decisions will be data-driven | |
| Upbeat music continues | Train loaded with railway sleepers arrives at worksite and starts to unload. |
| Staff member checks information on his iPad. | |
| Train runs along track again | |
| Upbeat music continues | The following words appear on a white background: |
| Intelligent Infrastructure will harness data | |
| Intelligent Infrastructure will transform work | |
| Intelligent Infrastructure will drive performance | |
| Intelligent Infrastructure will predict faults | |
| Intelligent Infrastructure will reduce risk | |
| Intelligent Infrastructure will safeguard workers | |
| Deliver for our customers | |
| Upbeat music continues | A family walks through a busy station |
| A passenger train arrives at a station, doors open, and passengers leave | |
| Freight train runs along track | |
| Upbeat music continues | The following words appear on a white background: |
| It’s a future that we can all be part of | |
| Upbeat music continues | Members of staff review data at their desk. |
| Upbeat music continues | The following words appear on a white background: |
| A smarter, safer, better performing railway for the passenger | |
| Upbeat music continues | Happy passengers shown at stations |
| Upbeat music continues | The following words appear on a white background: |
| We’re putting passengers first | |
| Music fades | The Intelligent Infrastructure logo appears with the strapline ‘delivering the data-driven railway’ |
| The end card appears with the Network Rail logo. |
