Proteus - Flexible Rail Interior System

该项目响应了铁路快速变化的格局，后新冠肺炎\。它的目标是给铁路车厢内饰带来创新，为乘客提供好处和保证，并为租赁公司和运营商带来商业机会。由于自2020年初开始实施的各种封锁措施，英国的火车服务目前以20%的运力运行。尽管调查预计乘客将随着时间的推移而返回，但预计旅行模式将有所不同，例如早晚高峰时段的概况更加平坦，通勤时间更长但频率更低，采用微型移动模式完成最后一英里旅行的单程旅行，以及周末休闲市场的增加。《2021年交通焦点》研究表明，乘客对个人空间和距离的焦虑以及对卫生的担忧是影响乘客返回铁路出行速度的两个关键因素。运营商还必须与新发现的在家工作的依恋以及工作/生活平衡方面的相关好处展开竞争。然而，乘客回流的实际情况尚不清楚，可能会受到未来大流行浪潮和经济表现等因素的影响。因此，运营商需要内置灵活性，以允许他们在未来的多个场景中进行管理。由于自疫情爆发以来没有新的列车内部设施投入使用，该项目旨在提供一种首创的车厢环境和座位布局，以解决乘客的担忧，并为运营商提供灵活性，使他们能够灵活地调整车厢内的住宿条件，以便逐步返回。主要特点将包括：车厢内个人空间的新定义；座椅设计，便于更容易地清洁和减少污垢；内置功能，允许乘客充分利用在车上的时间进行工作和提高生产率；改善行李、自行车和其他微型移动模式的存储空间；具有被动灵活性的布局，允许操作员根据需求将座位投入和停止服务，并能够立即或夜间在仓库进行这些更改，而不需要停止服务和需要工程支持。此外，铁路行业正在进行的结构性变化，以及未来5年非常高强度的特许经营权再租赁工作，给了我们一次千载难逢的机会来进行车辆更新，并利用疫情的破坏来提供更高质量的乘客体验，因为我们正在从疫情中恢复过来。

This project responds to the rapidly changing landscape in rail, post COVID-19\. It aims to bring innovation to rail carriage interiors that will offer benefits and reassurances to passengers and bring commercial opportunities to leasing companies and operators. As a result of the various lockdown measures introduced since early 2020, train services in the UK are currently running at 20% capacity. Although surveys anticipate that passengers will return over time, patterns of travel are predicted to be different such as a flatter profile of morning and evening peak hours, longer but less frequent commutes, single-leg journeys with micro-mobility modes used to complete the last mile of journeys, and an increased leisure market at weekends. The Transport Focus 2021 research indicates that passenger anxiety around personal space and distancing and concerns for hygiene are two of the critical factors influencing the speed at which passengers will return to rail travel. Operators must also compete against a new-found attachment to working from home and the associated benefits in terms of work/life balance. However, the actual profile of passenger return is unknown and could be influenced by factors such as future waves of the pandemic and economic performance. Therefore, operators need flexibility built-in to allow them to manage through multiple future scenarios. As there have been no new train interiors put into service since the pandemic, this project aims to deliver a first-of-a-kind carriage environment and seating layout that address passenger concerns and provide operators with flexibility, allowing them to flex onboard accommodation for a gradual return. Key features would include: New definition of personal space within carriages; Seat designs that facilitate easier cleaning and reduction of dirt-traps; Built-in features that allow passengers to make best use of their time onboard to do work and be productive; Improved storage space for luggage, bikes and other micro-mobility modes; A layout with 'passive flexibility' allowing operators to bring seats in and out of service according to demand and be able to make those changes immediately or overnight in-depot, without taking the set out of service and needing engineering support. In addition, the structural changes ongoing in the rail industry, with a very high intensity of franchise re-leasing work in the next 5 years gives a once in a generation opportunity to carry out vehicle refreshes and capitalise on the disruption of the pandemic to provide a higher quality passenger experience as we recover from it.