Network Rail partners with Burnley compliance firm

Network Rail has partnered with Burnley-based CheckedSafe to help manage its fleet of more than 10,000 vehicles.

Network Rail is the owner of Britain’s vast railway infrastructure spanning over 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels, viaducts, and thousands of signals, encompasses a staggering 650 railway stations nationwide.

CheckedSafe is the UK's leading provider of vehicle compliance and fleet management. After almost four years of planning, bespoke development and negotiation, the company's partnership with Network Rail officially commenced in January this year.

The partnership sees CheckSafe's Fleet Management app utilised by more than 44,000 Network Rail employees across a fleet of more than 10,000 vehicles.

The collaboration has also resulted in the creation of numerous custom features and bespoke development. Among these new solutions is an NFC keyring system designed to offer a secure and efficient user identification mechanism. This allows for seamless access to individual CheckedSafe app profiles across a variety of devices without the need for cumbersome email and password login methods. 

To ensure the fleet management portal works sufficiently for such a large organisation, CheckedSafe have also developed a unique API software that allows Network Rail greater segmentation and insight into their nationwide network of vehicles - as well as numerous other bespoke features. 

Darran Harris of CheckedSafe said: "This isn't just a big project for us; it's an ever-evolving and unique partnership. It’s fundamentally about changing driver behaviour to ensure our roads are the safest they can be.

"We've risen to the challenges of managing one of the UK's most extensive vehicle fleets by devising tailored solutions, unique new app functions and developing specialised API software."