Freightliner-ERTMS

How do you educate freight train drivers on the benefits of ETCS?

CHALLENGE

Freightliner’s heavy haul division needed a set of illustrations to explain what ERTMS is and what its benefits are to their freight train drivers.

OUTCOME

The illustrations provided a sense of professionalism to the launch event of the Ipswich Operational Training Academy, and have been widely used across the business for other internal communications.

DELIVERABLES

• Overview illustrations x 8
• Detailed side view illustrations x 2

“Thank you for everything Will – it was an enjoyable process and the outputs are fantastic.”

Cara Cohen, ERTMS Assistant Business Change Manager at Freightliner Group.

What is ERTMS?

Part 1: ETCS

What is ERTMS?

Part 2: GSM-R

What is ERTMS?

Part 3: Traffic management

What is ERTMS?

Part 4: Safety guidelines

Benefits of ERTMS

Part 1: For the driver

Benefits of ERTMS

Part 2: Safety improvements

Benefits of ERTMS

Part 3: Systems availability

Benefits of ERTMS

Part 4: Environmental

Freightliner’s interim CEO, Becky Lumlock cut the ribbon to officially open the Academy, with Toufic Machnouk, Director, Industry Partnership for Digital Railway, the Mayor of Ipswich, Ed Akers, Principal Programme Sponsor, East Coast Digital and Blake Jones Freightliner MD Rail Services. Photo above courtesy of Freightliner, read the full story on their website here.

Blake Jones Freightliner MD Rail Services stands in front of the banners we did the illustrations for.

Freightliner’s interim CEO, Becky Lumlock tests out one of the simulators

We also did some more technical illustrations to show how the Class 66 locomotive interacted with the track and signals. These will be used in training manuals.