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Do you have what it takes?
TSAG is looking for research and development suppliers to bring a fresh set of eyes to the technical challenges ahead
How is TSAG defining what it needs to do?
TSAG produced its first Business Plan - 'Long-term Technology Planning' - at the end of 2009 |
The Technical Strategy Advisory Group (TSAG) was created in response to the Department for Transport White Paper ‘Delivering a Sustainable Railway’. This White Paper considers the potential future challenges for the railway over a 30-year horizon. It identifies several long-term agendas for Government and the rail industry working in partnership. These are underpinned by 4Cs - the need to increase Customer satisfaction and Capacity, whilst decreasing Cost and Carbon emissions.
TSAG is a cross-industry expert group facilitated by RSSB, drawn from the organisations directly responsible for funding, specifying, and operating the railway.
TSAG is the industry client group for the Rail Industry Strategic Research Programme, and it has an overview of the work of System Interface Committees that assist the railway industry to manage all aspects of identified system interfaces in the most cost effective and efficient way.
TSAG will publish a Rail Technical Strategy (RTS) in line with the rail industry strategic planning cycle, currently every 5 years. The first RTS was published in 2007 to inform the High Level Output Specification (HLOS) programme for Control Period 4 (CP4), which starts in 2009.
The RTS will be updated every 5 years in line with Control Period planning cycles. So, the second RTS will be published in mid-2012 to influence HLOS 2 and Control Period 5.