Stuttgart railway junction

Digitising the entire drawing management process with Thinkproject

Reorganisation of the Stuttgart railway junction

Project

This transport and urban development project aims to create three new passenger stations and 57 km of new lines. Of these, almost one third will be for the new high-speed line to Ulm. The existing terminal station will be converted into a through-station and connected in all directions with a rail ring. With shorter journey times, more direct connections and capacity for more trains, the project will create a future-oriented rail system.

Railway, federal government, state, city and region are participating in this major project together with the EU and the airport.

The new (NBS) Wendlingen-Ulm rail line

Together with Stuttgart 21, the infrastructure designed for 250 km/h creates the basis for a more attractive travel times throughout Baden-Würtemberg, Germany and Europe. The Filder area, with the airport and state fair, will also be ideally accessible by rail. Half of the 60 km long route leads through nine tunnels and follows the parallel A8. Around 40 railway and road overpasses will be built, including the two outstanding bridges over the Neckar, near Wendlingen, and over the Filstal near Mühlhausen im Täle. The construction of the new Wendlingen-Ulm line is a project of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan (Bundesverkehrswegeplan), co-financed by the EU.

  • “What we like very much about Thinkproject CDE INFRASTRUCTURE in terms of operation is the logical and comprehensible interface as well as the possibility of individually calling up and thus also being able to control every piece of information stored via own filters. Advice and participation was always professional, motivated and highly focused.”
    Dr. Florian Bitzer
    Head of Technical Services (I.GT(T))Head of Technical Services (I.GT(T))
  • “Thinkproject CDE INFRASTRUCTURE was helping us to optimise the coordination of the planning and to fasten the approvals. It was definitely a key to master all the complex challenges of an inner-city grand project.”
    Michael Ditandy
    Team leader Los 2b - HP Feuerbach
Going digital with Document & Communication Management

Solution

Throughout 2014 and 2015, DB Projekt Stuttgart – Ulm GmbH decided to take the next step on their journey to digitalisation by digitising their entire drawing management process using Thinkproject CDE INFRASTRUCTURE.

Their old paper-based system has now been replaced with a streamlined, automated process. This switch to digital took place during normal planning and working and was prepared over several months by a team of DB PSU employees as well as experts from DB International, THOST Projektmanagement and Thinkproject CDE INFRASTRUCTURE.

All planning approval sections of the project defined its own, tailor-made workflows for the checking processes, which were subsequently then implemented in the platform. These digital workflows now control the highly complex inspection processes fully automatically.

Via the DOWEBA interface to the Federal Railway Authority included in CDE INFRASTRUCTURE, planning documents are now transferred to the EBA with a qualified digital signature.

Result

Thinkproject CDE INFRASTRUCTURE integrated checking options (via redlining) and the omission of the postal route have significantly reduced the checking times with it comes to drawing documents for these important upgrades. The possibilities of deadline management according to individual inspection periods and milestones guarantee reliable information about the planning status for the planning managers and the deadline controllers as well as special reports for the management.

7.7 billion euro

total project cost

57 km

Stuttgart rail length

59.6 km

Wendlingen-Ulm rail length

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