Transport for London has announced how it plans to achieve Boris Johnson’s election commitment to reduce delays on London Underground by 30 per cent by 2015.
Plans currently on the drawing board, which will be  formally announced in November, include:
- Using a standardised train fleet and signalling system. For the first time in its history London Underground can commission the same trains and signalling on all the sub-surface lines.
- Making use of wi-fi technology so engineers can receive performance updates in real time enabling them to respond more quickly to any problems.
- Reducing the number of unique points and crossovers, thus reducing the number of unique spares that have to be kept in order to maintain them.
- Require suppliers to demonstrate, prior to their equipment being installed, that their equipment will meet a certain level of reliability.
Delays across the network have already been reduced by 40 per cent since 2007/8 Â due to modifications such as fitting of covers to passenger emergency alarms to prevent their accidental activation and modifications to improve reliability on rolling stock components such as doors, couplers and air systems.
