SMA and partners
| SMA and Partner AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1987 |
| Seat | Zurich , Switzerland |
| management | Eric Cosandey, [CEO] |
| Number of employees | 64 (2015) |
| sales | 12.01 million CHF (2015) |
| Branch | Consulting company , transport planning |
| Website | www.sma-partner.com |
SMA und Partner AG , based in Zurich, is an internationally active Swiss consultancy for public and private transport companies .
The company is considered a leader in traffic planning , especially in the field of rail transport . The name SMA of the company founded in 1987 by Werner Stohler, Martin Meister and Hans Rudolf Akermann consists of the initials of the three company founders, who had previously carried out conceptual preparatory work for the establishment of the Zurich transport network .
Integral clock traffic
In Germany , the SMA played a decisive role in the introduction of cycle timetables in rail-based passenger transport. The company transferred the Swiss area cycle introduced in 1982 to German conditions and developed ITF networks for numerous German federal states. The first nationwide cycle schedule was launched in 1994 with the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle . Previously SMA 1993 was the Allgäu-Schwaben-clock triggered the 1996 national Bayern clock has been expanded. SMA also played a leading role in the planning of the Baden-Württemberg Drei-Löwen-Takt (since 1996) and the North Rhine-Westphalian NRW-Takt (since 1998). SMA + Partner was also commissioned to convert the Munich S-Bahn network to a uniform minute of symmetry from December 12, 2004.
In France, too, SMA supported the Réseau Ferré de France in developing a regular schedule, first in the Rhône-Alpes region , then in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur , Upper and Lower Normandy and Burgundy regions .
Project work
SMA was and is involved in numerous other project planning:
Switzerland
- Operational planning of the Gotthard Base Tunnel
- Operator concept Lötschberg base tunnel
- Electrification of the Hochrheinbahn (D / CH)
- Concept Bodan-Rail 2020 for the Lake Constance area (D / A / CH)
Germany
- Medium-term long-distance transport planning for Deutsche Bahn
- Conception of the Rhein-Ruhr-Express (Germany)
- Offer planning for the second main line of the Munich S-Bahn
- Frankfurt hub expansion 2010
- Stress test for the Stuttgart –Ulm rail project ( Stuttgart 21 and the new Wendlingen – Ulm line )
France
- Modernization of the rail infrastructure in the Midi-Pyrénées region
- Preliminary planning of the Paris-Tours-Bordeaux TGV line
Rest of Europe
- Modernization of the Linha da Beira Alta (Portugal)
- Conception of a Portuguese high-speed network
IT services
In addition to project work, SMA und Partner also creates various software tools for the computer-aided creation of timetables , line network plans and vehicle schedules . In particular, these tools are based on a visualization of the results. One of these output options is, among other things, the network graphic , in which a cycle timetable is shown schematically with the corresponding arrival and departure minutes. The Swiss Railway Review uses this type of timetable display every year to show the current cycle timetable for Switzerland on a DIN A2 poster.
Others
SMA was co-organizer of the IT08.rail, IT10.rail and IT13.rail trade fairs in Zurich.
Web links
- SMA and partner website
- IT13.rail trade fair
- Railway planner for half the world , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 26, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Entry of SMA und Partner AG ( memento from January 15, 2013 in the archive.today web archive ) in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on July 29, 2011.
- ↑ Management. In: sma-partner.com. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
- ↑ a b SMA-Team ( Memento of December 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), website of SMA and partners, accessed on January 9, 2017.
- ↑ Introduction and further development of the regular timetable in France (Project Structuration). SMA and partners, archived from the original on December 31, 2008 ; Retrieved January 24, 2010 .
- ↑ Lötschberg base tunnel operator concept LBT. (No longer available online.) SMA und Partner, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 24, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ "Development and evaluation of a concept for the Rhein-Ruhr-Express in North Rhine-Westphalia. Summary of the final report ". North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Construction and Transport, accessed on January 24, 2010 .
- ↑ Improvement of the efficiency of the Frankfurt node. SMA and partners, archived from the original on September 11, 2012 ; Retrieved January 24, 2010 .
- ↑ Project website of the department
- ↑ Assistance with the introduction of the “Plan Rail”. SMA and partners, archived from the original on September 15, 2012 ; Retrieved January 24, 2010 .
- ^ TGV Aquitaine (Paris -) Tours - Bordeaux - Hendaye. (No longer available online.) SMA und Partner, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 24, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ SMA and partners: IT products ( Memento from July 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ SMA and partners: Network graphic timetable Switzerland 2011 ( Memento from August 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )