Previous work by Xanta for London Overground had illustrated potential risks associated with this situation so a team of asset management specialists was deployed over a year to manage and deliver the revamped asset management system.

Xanta were engaged by Arup to provide design support, expertise, mentoring and assistant for this work. The packages were OS7, OS8 and OS9 and covered stations on the west side of the Circle, District and Hammersmith and City Lines.

Xanta and ARUP developed impact studies into a preferred design to enable alterations to pass to the detailed design stage.  The objective was to provide signalling design that identified signalling equipment to be moved and or recovered to facilitate provision of the longer train. The work required production of deliverables that included survey reports, concept design, diagrams to support the proposed design, signal sighting, design risk assessments, and identification of options section of the preferred scheme.

The key benefits of the resource planning model (tool) are that it can be used to determine whether the current staff and their skill base meet the future requirements, and to ensure effective resource planning and utilisation. Since its development it is now being considered for roll-out and deployment across a number of technical areas within LU, including Signalling and Control.

The works were also considerate of the need to provide a step-change in the service level and provide improved resilience of the system to support the London Olympic timetable.

Xanta performed the CARE audit and due to its success, was then invited to perform a similar activity on the WARE Concession. We further assessed the current and proposed realistic future asset investment plans for the Concession areas.