Project Management for Railway Gds Distribution
Railway GDS Distribution
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Project Management Coursework
Simon Riha
Cohort 13, Aviation Management
Emirates Aviation College
May 14, 2012
Railway GDS Distribution
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Project Management Coursework
Simon Riha
Cohort 13, Aviation Management
Emirates Aviation College
May 14, 2012
Table of Contents Introduction 3 Business Case Assessment 4 Project Planning and Scheduling 8 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) 9 Project Organization Structure 11 Network Diagram and Gantt Chart 12 Project Monitoring and Control 15 Project Risk and Reducing Uncertainty 21 Conclusion 24 Reference List 25 Appendix 1: A BOSCARD Table Example 26
Introduction
This coursework examines development of a strategic project plan for implementing train connections in the airline Global Distribution Systems (GDS).
Railways in GDS have been a topical topic for past fifteen years, as long as the industry has been internationalized through liberalization and demand for interlining between airlines and railways (so-called “rail & fly”). Though some GDS distribution solutions for railways have been released, they have remained marginal and have not become any industry standard.
In particular, Westbahn, the first private railway in Austria, has approached Hahn Air, a German airline specialized in global distribution, to make their trains saleable in GDS in manner as if their trains were flights.
This work examines the project development process from initial business case assessment and proceeds through project planning and scheduling, project monitoring and control to managing risk and reducing uncertainty. When doing so, the work concentrates on studying procedures helping Hahn Air create such a project in the existing environment of small and medium enterprises without any corporate project management structures, such as project management office, project
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Project Management Coursework
Simon Riha
Cohort 13, Aviation Management
Emirates Aviation College
May 14, 2012
Railway GDS Distribution
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Project Management Coursework
Simon Riha
Cohort 13, Aviation Management
Emirates Aviation College
May 14, 2012
Table of Contents Introduction 3 Business Case Assessment 4 Project Planning and Scheduling 8 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) 9 Project Organization Structure 11 Network Diagram and Gantt Chart 12 Project Monitoring and Control 15 Project Risk and Reducing Uncertainty 21 Conclusion 24 Reference List 25 Appendix 1: A BOSCARD Table Example 26
Introduction
This coursework examines development of a strategic project plan for implementing train connections in the airline Global Distribution Systems (GDS).
Railways in GDS have been a topical topic for past fifteen years, as long as the industry has been internationalized through liberalization and demand for interlining between airlines and railways (so-called “rail & fly”). Though some GDS distribution solutions for railways have been released, they have remained marginal and have not become any industry standard.
In particular, Westbahn, the first private railway in Austria, has approached Hahn Air, a German airline specialized in global distribution, to make their trains saleable in GDS in manner as if their trains were flights.
This work examines the project development process from initial business case assessment and proceeds through project planning and scheduling, project monitoring and control to managing risk and reducing uncertainty. When doing so, the work concentrates on studying procedures helping Hahn Air create such a project in the existing environment of small and medium enterprises without any corporate project management structures, such as project management office, project