A huge thank you to the amazing team at PROSE for the dedication, passion, and effort that made InnoTrans 2024 such a success.
We return to our desks inspired, energised, and eager for what is ahead!
Our teamwork truly set the foundation for what we achieved and what is to come.
The excitement and inspiration from InnoTrans 2024, combined with the innovative minds we met and the new relationships we forged, will drive us forward as we continue shaping tomorrow’s mobility.
If you share our vision for the future of mobility, let’s connect and explore how we can collaborate to make it happen!
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We are excited to announce that PROSE has been awarded a new project with Würzburger Straßenbahn GmbH (WSB) after maintaining a strong relationship through various collaborations in recent years. This new order involves the development of workshop bogies to enable the temporary movement of low-floor vehicles during the GT-N bogie inspection.
PROSE will deliver the complete engineering solution—from concept to detailed drawings—so that WSB’s maintenance team can manufacture the auxiliary bogies in-house. The project focuses on creating a simple yet torsionally soft design to meet the specific requirements of the workshop environment.
A big thank you to all who participated at the PROSE After-Fair event yesterday and contributed to a successful ending of day two. It can only be described with one word: Epic!
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Make sure you stop by our booth, hall 2.2 booth 250 to hear how we are shaping tomorrow’s mobility. We offer independent engineering and consulting services, with unique expertise in railway technology. Let us show you our solutions to your challenges. Meet our experts on site.
We are proud to announce that PROSE has been honoured with the Railway Award in the ‘Top Employer’ category! This award is a testament to our continued commitment to innovation, teamwork and excellence in the railway industry.
Special thanks go to Josef Kometer and Bernhard Frei, who represented PROSE at the award ceremony at InnoTrans.
We look forward to continuing to help shape the future of mobility.
PROSE is proud to announce, that we have signed a cooperation agreement with Hardt Hyperloop, TÜV Rheinland Group and GESTE Engineering for the joint development of Hyperloop solutions and essential technology bricks
The signing took place at the occasion of the grand opening event of the European Hyperloop Center in Veendam, The Netherlands, which gathered the major stakeholders of the Hyperloop Eco-System.
PROSE’s has a long-standing track record tackling the challenges of innovative transportation systems and looks forward to becoming a key contributor in the shaping of tomorrow’s mobility.
AB Transitio owns and leases out various EMU and DMU fleets in many regions of Sweden. For rolling stock owners, the lack of documentation and obsolescence, which can occur for different reasons, is a common challenge. Through this project, AB Transitio aims to establish a standardised process and methodology for managing specific cases of obsolescence using reverse engineering. The above-depicted process defines the general tasks, requirements, and responsibilities for handling reverse engineering cases, regardless of who operates and maintains a particular fleet.
PROSE has extensive experience in reverse engineering, safety management and vehicle acceptance procedures. Based on this expertise, we have developed a step-by-step process for the reverse engineering of parts, systems or components. This process ensures that all relevant standards and regulations are complied with. The result is a financially sound, maintainable and sustainable solution that ensures the vehicle can be maintained, repaired and overhauled throughout its life cycle.
Customer benefit
Reverse engineering plays a crucial role in fleet management and ensures sustainable, stable, and long-term maintenance of the fleet. By applying the methodology and process developed by PROSE, customers have access to parts and components that are available for maintenance, repair, or overhaul throughout the vehicle’s lifetime. This process also takes into account the commercial aspects of each case and ensures that the organisation carrying out the work has the necessary skills and expertise.
Carrying out requirements capture and preparing the safety evaluation, including risk analysis
Preparation and management of evidence documents
Cooperation and coordination of NoBo, DeBo and AsBo
Support in preparing several declarations and dealing with online registers like ERATV or ERADIS
Management of the change notification to the ERA or national safety authorities like EBA for changes not requiring an authorisation
Management of authorisation applications via One Stop Shop to the ERA for changes requiring authorisation
Coordination with the ERA and national safety authority
Our Approach
Vehicle operators or leasing companies make changes to their vehicles for very different reasons, e.g. for obsolescence reasons or to offer passengers a better service by customising the interior and adding features such as sockets or WLAN. In addition to providing engineering services, PROSE supports such projects by taking over the entire approval management process, including communication with all the bodies and authorities involved.
The authorisation process ensures safe rail transport and the best possible interoperability throughout the EU. However, implementing changes to rolling stock presents a significant challenge to operators, keepers, and owners.
At PROSE, we recognise that each railway vehicle is unique. Our team of experts develops vehicle authorisation strategies that address the specific challenges of our customer’s products and needs. From Requirements Capture to One Stop Shop, our experts have the knowledge to guide you through the process. Whether you only need assistance with a single task or are looking for a complete solution, we can provide solutions to meet your particular requirements.
Customer benefit
Modernisations and retrofits guarantee enhanced reliability and superior passenger comfort and open up new applications by integrating new systems. Whilst operators and workshops can focus on their primary tasks, PROSE can handle all the “paperwork” from the engineering and the preparation of evidence documents to the assessment and authorisation phases with bodies and authorities involved. Due to our comprehensive service portfolio, we help reduce interfaces and effort because all services are coordinated and come from a single source.
PROSE ensures that our customers’ railway vehicles comply with the latest standards and regulations. From document preparation to submission, we make sure that vehicle approval hurdles don’t derail your success.
Implementation of additional country-specific equipment for operation outside Germany
Requirements capture and safety evaluation
Preparation and structuring of evidence documentation
Management of the different bodies (NoBos, DeBos, AsBos)
Support with the several declarations to be issued
Support with ERADIS and ERATV
Management of the application at the involved authorities (ERA and NSAs
Our Approach
As Germany’s largest railway infrastructure company, DB InfraGO wants to switch off analogue train radio on many routes. This means that vehicle operators are obliged to retrofit their vehicles with GSM-R digital train radio if they do not yet have the appropriate equipment.
For the first time since the introduction of the 4th railway package, many vehicle operators have been faced with the task of carrying out vehicle modifications that require authorisation. Many small and medium-sized regional transport companies do not have the capacity to deal with the complex authorisation processes and are reliant on external support.
PROSE responds individually to vehicle operators’ needs and provides support throughout the entire chain, from the specification of the required radio equipment to the receipt of the new authorisation in precisely those areas where the vehicle operator has a need.
PROSE determines the individual project requirements for each customer enquiry. The customer’s preliminary work and the desired in-house services are taken into account, and clear interfaces are created so that the project realisation runs hand in hand. The flexibility to respond to short-term customer requests to increase or reduce the project scope is a matter of course for us.
Customer benefit
Due to the large number of projects in this area, we have very good contacts with several bodies and authorities, which enables uncomplicated coordination even before the project begins. In regional transport, where operators often belong to a group, PROSE provides strategic advice on the selection of the proposer, the entity managing the change and the workshops, taking into account several points to keep the overall project costs arising from assessments, audits etc. as low as possible and to be able to exploit synergies, e.g. in cases where different operators of the group operate the same vehicle serie. The operators can focus on their core business and do not even have to take part in the coordination rounds with the authorising entity and/or national safety authorities during the authority’s application assessment phase, as PROSE can do this for the operators on request using a power of attorney.
Transdev Hannover GmbH changed the existing colour scheme of 13 EMUs of the type ET425.5 from the Deutsche Bahn “Verkehrsrot” to the Transdev branding in blue and white. PROSE supported with authorisation management concerning TSI LOC&PAS, TSI PRM and German NNTR as well as requirements capture and evidence documents. The main obstacle was to find a way to establish the evidence documents of the fire protection as no spare parts existed to conduct the necessary experiments.
Due to the great experience and good networking within the industry, it was possible to agree on a feasible way of proving fire protection with the assessment bodies as early as the tendering phase. In combination with the close support of the customer in every phase of the project, loops or lengthy discussions could be avoided.
Customer benefit
PROSE led Transdev Hannover through the authorisation process including communication with the assessment bodies and project management. This ultimately resulted in the timely submission of the documents and rapid final processing by the national safety authority (EBA) including the final “Go”.
As part of the development of a technical specification for equipping an existing vehicle fleet with a driver assistance system (DAS) / ATO GoA2 (Automatic Train Operation, semi-automatic operation) , PROSE supported Rhaethian Bahn AG (RhB) with neutral expertise on technical implementation variants.
Specifically, the focus was on the interface and functionality to be implemented for the interface between the DAS and the vehicle control system, as well as the interaction of the locomotive crew with the DAS. In particular, the different implementation variants focused on the DAS activation and implementing the traction/braking force target values on the vehicle.
Based on the European specification analogue to SUBSET-125 and SUBSET-139, the adapted draft specifications, and internal implementation proposals, PROSE carried out a neutral evaluation of the variants using a two-stage methodology.
In the first step, selected RhB representatives from the areas of vehicle technology and locomotive personnel were interviewed. The purpose of the interview was to determine the significance of the individual evaluation criteria.
In the second step, the PROSE experts verified the fulfilment of the criteria for both variants based on the technical specifications and the expert interviews. In particular, the opportunities, risks, suitability for vehicle acceptance, migration capability, acceptance of the systems by the locomotive personnel, and an initial qualitative assessment from the HOF (Human-Organisational-Factors) perspective of the variants were compared and evaluated.
Customer benefit
RhB benefited from the neutral and independent assessment of the PROSE experts and the methodical approach involving the relevant internal representatives. PROSE’s expertise ensured fast and efficient processing and the necessary depth of detail.
Last week in Martigny, Switzerland, we had the privilege of attending a number of important events – from the SWISSRAIL pre-event and the General Assembly to the exhibition and the VöV General Assembly. It was a great gathering of the rail industry, filled with meaningful exchanges, new insights and an inspiring vision for the future of mobility.
A big thank you to all the participants and organisers who made these gatherings a success! Together, we are driving innovation, fostering collaboration and shaping the mobility solutions of tomorrow.
We are excited to share that PROSE’s innovative gauge-changing bogie project has caught the attention of the Chinese press! Originally developed in collaboration with MOB, this project has evolved from a simple prototype into a complex series production system, demonstrating the strength of our technical expertise. With phases ranging from feasibility analysis, mechanical and control engineering development to detailed manufacturing design, this project remains a milestone in our journey.
The recognition from international media highlights the lasting impact of our work in advancing rail technology.
