MR.pro® track inspection and asset management

The Compagnie des transports strasbourgeois (CTS) is a French company that was founded in 1877 in the former German Empire, Alsace-Lorraine under the name Strassburger Pferde-Eisenbahn Strasbourg to provide public passenger transportation. On 01.05.1960, a streetcar ran for the last time in Strasbourg - it would be 34 years before a new tram network was built. It would be 34 years before a new streetcar network was built. The first line went into operation on 26.11. 1994 with modern with modern Citadis vehicles in standard gauge 1435 mm. Today, the streetcar transports 40 million passengers per year. At peak times, trains run every 2 minutes. Today, CTS operates six streetcar lines, a bus network and eight Park & Ride lots in the area of the Eurométropole de Strasbourg. Since 2017, CTS has also been operating the streetcar lines in the neighboring German neighboring city of Kehl. In addition to transporting passengers, the new streetcars in France also had the task of task of restructuring city centers and making them more liveable. At the same time, thanks to more environmentally friendly thanks to electric and quiet rail vehicles and thus revitalized the city. revitalize the city. Strasbourg thus became a model for all subsequent streetcar projects in France. France since then.

Asset Management Railway Infrastructure
CTS is both operator and developer of the urban transport network. To optimize management, an infrastructure management system was put out to tender at the beginning of 2018, including digitalization of the assets was put out to tender. Rhomberg Sersa Vossloh's offer was awarded the contract. awarded the contract. Using the company's own MR.pro® asset management software, the current and historical data already collected by RSV current and historical data on the track assets collected by RSV was transferred to the CTS database. database. The switch data collected by another service provider since the opening of operations was also service provider since the start of operations were also converted and transferred to the MR.pro® system at CTS. With this fully This fully operational database enabled digital asset management to get started immediately.
CTS achieves the best public transport cost recovery ratio of all French metropolitan areas with more than 250,000 inhabitants. The asset management of CTS also makes a valuable contribution here through forward-looking maintenance that preserves the substance of the system!

Result
With the introduction of the digital asset management system, CTS was able to achieve its previously set goals. achieve the goals set previously:

• Reduction of planning, control and documentation effort
• Secured documentation of the operational and functional safety of the system, updatable and suitable as a life file
• Track graphics for system states, loads, designs and freely definable properties
• Network-compatible data provision for decentralized and centralized access as well as long-term analyses and tracking of condition development
• Integrated deadline and warranty tracking
• Supporting decision-making processes and setting priorities
• Daily status reports and statistical evaluations
• Condition monitoring and weak point analysis
• Service life management and condition prognosis