RAE turns rail condition data into economically justified, access-compliant plans
— and keeps those plans live as new inspections arrive.
Trusted data → whole-life value → treatable sites → access-aware shifts → continuous plan assurance → strategic prioritisation
You must trust the run-on-run data first. Misalignment, inconsistency, and coverage gaps can block forecasting before it even starts.
RAE aligns and validates run-on-run condition history using multiple methods, and shows data coverage, freshness, confidence, and provenance for every analysis in every module.
You must know whether maintenance is actually the best value decision.
Every rail metre is not made equal, so average unit renewal costs are not enough; every metre's life with and without intervention and degradation drivers must be calculated, then the trade-off between treatment, deferral, and renewal can be discovered. RAE determines the rates and drivers of degradation, calculates whole-life cost through time, compares intervention timing options, and quantifies the cost, life extension and compliance states of doing nothing versus acting.
You must know whether a site will still be treatable when access is available.
Knowing it needs treatment now is not enough if access comes 12 months later. RAE forecasts 12 months ahead using head wear, head depth, crack depth, and degradation forecasts to show what will still be treatable - and economically worth treating - at the time of delivery.
You must group work in a way that is both deliverable and economically sensible.
Sites can be grouped, but variable intra-site degradations add layers of complexity in finding the best treatment packages. RAE builds treatable sites using subsite and rail-side specific degradations, deadlines, and economics so that every site reflects engineering need, delivery reality and cost-benefit.
You must plan for real possession limits, timings, and machine productivity.
Access windows are valuable, limited, and route-specific. RAE builds and optimises shifts around real engineering access statements, possession mileage limits, day-of-week timings, and resource productivity. RAE’s continuous plan assurance automatically reassesses every saved shift when new inspection data arrives, so that plans remain treatable, feasible and economical from T-12 months to T-0.
You must be able to explain every decision and prove whether it worked.
Outputs without provenance and feedback do not build confidence or receive funding. RAE makes all histories and every recommendation explainable, traceable, and exportable - then closes the loop by showing how costs, life remaining, and outcomes changed after each run and intervention.
