Energymiser DAS
Creating your competitive advantage with an optimal speed profile to improve energy efficiency and performance
Speed advice for drivers
Improve on-time performance, reduce energy costs while minimising driver anxiety.
Energymiser DAS is Zelra’s Driving Advice System which reduces the energy used to complete journeys by optimising braking and acceleration and encouraging coasting. This keeps your trains running on time while reducing fuel costs by ten per cent or more and decreasing carbon emissions.
Improve energy and operational efficiency
Right time running
Rail operators are far more likely to meet train schedules, reduce energy costs whether diesel or electric, and deliver sustainability targets by decreasing carbon emissions.
Reduced operating costs
The closer drivers follow the advice, the more optimal a journey becomes. How a train is operated greatly affects energy usage, with several factors heavily influencing driver performance.
Sophisticated algorithms
Our DAS technology generates, and continually adjusts, an optimal journey profile throughout each trip and provides operating advice to achieve this. The system considers a range of factors including track geometry and speed profile, timetable, train characteristics, and train position.
Creating your dependable, efficient network
Operational efficiency levels can vary significantly between drivers using identical train configurations on the same route, creating uncertainty for your business. DAS negates these inefficiencies.
Sharing optimised advice equips your drivers with the situational awareness to challenge their preconceived instincts. This is proven to enhance service reliability, cut fuel costs, reduce emissions, and improve outcomes for scheduling and maintenance functions.
Network capacity
Boost rail network capacity and performance by improving right time running to junctions and other critical timing point locations.
Minimise maintenance costs
Achieve better use of rail assets. Extend the life of your rail assets by reducing wear and tear on trains and tracks. This minimises maintenance costs caused by braking and overspeeding, which can significantly affect equipment lifespan.
Situational awareness
Greater situational awareness enhances decision making, especially when facing potential hazards. Unify encourages smoother driving patterns and reduces the risk of overspeeding, which improves safety and minimises wear and tear on rail assets.
Reporting tool
Detailed route statistics and journey reports are available for individual drivers and entire teams offering accurate and consistent driving decisions on future trips. This can be invaluable for driver training or when switching to new rolling stock types or new routes. Statistics include total trip time, speed limit compliance, and dwell times at scheduled stops.
Create your DAS driver champions
Supportive technology helps your drivers to achieve timetable compliance. Zelra provides DAS training, including for union representatives, to upskill staff and enable driver champions to support colleagues using the system.
Reduce carbon emissions
Meet your internal decarbonisation targets and government policy goals by decreasing your organisation's energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Zelra's Energymiser DAS delivers performance and sustainability improvements to leading railways and manufacturers including SNCF (France), ScotRail (UK), KiwiRail (New Zealand), and Greater Anglia (UK).
Fuel efficiency
Optimal driving reduces fuel consumption, making a significant contribution to your bottom line when energy use can be half of a locomotive's lifetime operating cost.
