As the nationalisation of Britain’s railways unfolds, you don’t have to overcome the associated hurdles alone. At OneAdvanced, we’re working with Passenger Transport operators to deploy pre-assembled modular SaaS applications, which are enabling continuity and efficiency across your changing sector.
The government’s Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill 2024-25 continues to pass through parliament, and train operators like yours must ensure you’re prepared for this groundbreaking legislation by optimising your operations.
This transition towards a public ownership model will present you with several challenges and opportunities related to:
- Operational disruptions
- Service continuity
- Regulatory compliance
- Financial adjustments
- Technological integration
- Workforce management
- Customer communication
How can train operators navigate this transition?
This new mandate for reliability, affordability, efficiency, quality, accessibility, and safety underscores the need for robust operational frameworks and innovative systems. SaaS technology enables you to adapt to these changes, by helping you to:
Achieve transparency and control
You’ll need to deal with changes in funding structures and financial management methods as you move away from private contracts, ensuring that you reconfigure your approach to align with new public sector requirements.
Cutting-edge SaaS applications provide train operators with comprehensive financial management tools that ensure transparency and control. These systems streamline your financial operations, from budget management to real-time financial reporting, enabling you to adapt seamlessly to the new funding structures while maintaining fiscal stability.
Optimise resource allocation
Transitioning to public ownership could lead to disruptions in existing operations as contracts are restructured and management shifts to Great British Railways (GBR).
Spend management software optimises resource allocation and enhances procurement processes. With integrated processes for purchasing, supplier, and contract management, you can achieve significant cost savings and operational efficiency, ensuring every pound is spent wisely.
Ensure compliance and mitigate risks
Adapting to new regulations and standards set by GBR, particularly around safety, accessibility, and efficiency, will require significant adjustments. Navigating the regulatory landscape under public ownership demands robust governance and risk management.
Technological tools can automate compliance checks and maintain up-to-date records, ensuring adherence to GBR’s standards. SaaS applications offer proactive risk management capabilities, helping you to anticipate and mitigate potential risks swiftly.
Align with new operational goals
Managing staff transitions and ensuring workforce alignment with new operational goals and structures will be essential. A shift in ownership necessitates agile workforce management to align teams with new operational objectives.
Workforce management systems provide you with functionality for effective scheduling, performance tracking, and communication. These features ensure that the transition is smooth for employees, and they feel engaged and productive during this period of change.
Enhance efficiency and service quality
As you’ll know, operational efficiency is at the core of successful rail service delivery. Implementing new software to meet the requirements for improved efficiency and service quality could pose integration challenges with existing systems.
SaaS applications offer an integrated approach to business systems, creating outcomes such as streamlined daily workflows, improved service reliability, and enhanced passenger satisfaction. Maintaining consistent service quality and reliability during the transition period will be crucial if you’re to avoid passenger dissatisfaction.
Effectively communicating changes and managing customer expectations during the transition will be important to maintain trust and satisfaction. By leveraging scalable and secure tech, you can address the demands of this operational shift without disruption to service quality.
OneAdvanced: A platform for success
At OneAdvanced, we’ve worked with many organisations in the Passenger Transport sector, solving their challenges through tech. Our SaaS portfolio consists of modular applications that integrate seamlessly, ensuring maximal efficiency across all your core processes.
These applications are underpinned by a powerful platform that is built to be scalable, secure, and interconnected, ensuring a seamless and safe flow of information. This unified platform brings all your separate business functions together within a single environment, with a single user experience, and under a single provider, which in turn eliminates complexity, enables automation, improves the quality of data, and breeds connectedness.
This software sits within a hybrid Cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability and cost-efficiency, while enabling you to focus on improving service quality and passenger satisfaction (without the burden of excessive costs). Cloud technology facilitates easy communication and data sharing, allowing your teams to work together effectively, irrespective of their location.
With OneAdvanced, you have a partner committed to helping you achieve the goals set forth by this impending public ownership model. Embrace the future with confidence and begin your journey towards operational excellence.