Planning & Production Board
Improving safety and value for money today, whilst planning for and securing the railway’s future.
The role of the Planning & Production Board is:
- to take a whole system view to ensure that priority issues associated with industry alignment and third party investment are being acted on by relevant groups;
- to champion relevant change and modernisation;
- to ensure that the architecture in place is effective and adding value in the development of strategic plans on staff numbers, roles and skills, including work to build a national plan for addressing a range of productivity and diversity issues within the industry’s train driver management activities;
- to facilitate and if necessary, require cooperation between industry parties to plan and deliver a sufficient, sustainable, safe, reliable, efficient railway for members, customers, funders and stakeholders now and in the future
Key areas of work include:
- People: Driver Academy programme and People Strategy.
- Security: Strategic plan for policing Britain’s railways.
- Strategic planning: Whole Industry Strategic Plan, Decarbonisation, Station Strategy
- Technology: Digital Railway
Planning & Production Board groups
- Digital Railway Industry Council
- Engineering Council - Twenty Point Plan
- Operations Council
- Rail HR Directors Forum
- Planning Oversight Group (POG)
- Policing & Security Group
- Station Strategy Group (SSG)
- Train Driver Academy Board