“BoschSpoor, Advies & Coaching” offers:

Philosophy
BoschSpoor is the consultancy company owned by Roel van den Bosch. His philosophy is:
A consultant provides a service. He doesn’t take over the job nor the work that has to be done, but he assists the people in the company. Only by doing the work by themselves, the organiszation will learn. Using the support of an experienced coach the result will be reached quicker and the lasting effect will be bigger.

Area
BoschSpoor operates within the triangle Government – Operations – infra manager. The consultancy is mainly focused on management, organization and technical processes within this triangle. Experience is based on High Speed Line, Heavy Rail, LightRail (including tram and metro) and specialties.

Consultancy
Consultancy is offered ‘from ballast bed to board room’. The consultancy activities varies from developing and implementing of a strategic maintenance vision, (management) contracts, independent assessment of cost calculations or project development, assessment against existing legislations, mediation. [more]

Coaching
Coaching is connected to the consultancy activities. Also on an individual basis Roel van den Bosch offers support for training on the job or making a step forward by using an external view. [more]

Consultancy
Coaching
References
Co-operations
Expertience

Consultancy
Consultancy is offered ‘from ballast bed to board room’. The consultancy activities varies from developing and implementing of a strategic maintenance vision, (management) contracts, independent assessment of cost calculations or project development, assessment against existing legislation, mediation, assessment of a maintenance plan, safety assessments. This consultancy is related to a technical and/or organizational background in the area’s railway infrastructure, railway safety, interaction between infrastructure , rolling stock, operations, contracts and exiting legislations.

Excemples of executed consultancy activities
- formulating of a Strategical Maintanence vision;
- formulating the criteria for a maintenace contract;
- formulating of a maintenace contract;

- formulating critical targets
- formulating the template of the periodic reports;
- stucture the longterm maintenace plan;
- setting up the mainenance strategy;

- implementing a maintenance plan;
- independent assessment of rapports, action plans, criteria for a contract, cost calcualtions;
- second opinion on contract documents;
- validation of a realized project against the design criteria;

- independent judgement and advice on conflicts between parties;
- Independent Safety Assessment on Safety Cases;
- independent expert on safety and accident investigation;

Coaching

Personal coaching
Coaching is connected to the consultancy activities. Also on an individual basis Roel van den Bosch offers support for training on the job or making a step forward by using an external view. When the organization and / or the playing field will be reorganized, all involved staff have to understand their new roll and relationship between the parties. BoschSpoor offers the opportunity to understand the new circumstances by using a simulation game.

Trainihg
The Dutch railway law has been changed due to the European regulations. This lead to new rolls and new involved parties. Together with Max van Asch van Wijck and Avans+ Hogeschool a new training is developed, focused on the chain : government – Inframanager – designer – contractor.

References
Information about reference projects is available on demand.

  Clients
  In the past Roel van den Bosch has been involved as a consultant for the following clients:

Co-operations
A good advice is very important for the client. Roel van den Bosch has an expert network at his disposal. When this is necessary for a successful advice he will be able – of course after consultation with the client - to use this network.

Jhr. Max van Asch van Wijck
Mr. Julia Thate
Mr. Ton Noppe
Ing. Evert Pardijs
Ir. Paul Ranke
Ing. Peter Faas
Alex Heerema
Ing. Johan de Ruiter
Ir. Frank van Rijssen
Ir. Fred Zwaenepoel

Roel van den Bosch also co-operates with:

- Attica Advies
- DeltaRail
- Europoint Rail Technology Conferences & Exhibitions

Experience
After his study civil engineering Roel van den Bosch (1952) has fulfilled several technical and management jobs, which made him a well-experienced consultant “from ballast to boardroom”. He has an in-depth knowledge of the Rail infrastructure maintenance processes and the interfaces between infrastructure, exploitation, and rolling stock. Roel has worked in a complex environment between government, operations and infrastructure. He is an experienced manager of multidisciplinary teams and operated in transformation processes, he understands the European regulation and is also an experienced investigator at railway accidents;

Roel van den Bosch is well-known as an independent, experienced person, who works within agreed targets and scope. His advice report is short of length, practical and when needed translated to non-experts. He has an enormous network within the inframanagers, ministry of transport, contractors and local authorities.

Carrier
Roel van den Bosch works since the end of 2009 as an independent consultant and owner of BoschSpoor. Previously he was Principal Consultant for strategic management at AEA Technology Rail BV / DeltaRail BV from mid 2001 until the end of 2009.

From 1980 until mid 2001 he fulfilled several jobs within the infrastructure manager of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways). He was involved in many national and international committees. After the separation of the Dutch railways he joined Railinfrabeheer BV (actual : ProRail) as the managing director of the south region. In 1998 he became the director of Maintenance.

Roel van den Bosch is educated as a civil engineer (MSc degree) at the Technical University Delft, specialized at railways and railways constructions. During his study he worked at RET, infrastructure department (Metro). After his study he worked for a short period as a project leader for a contractor.

A more detailed CV will be available on request.

Contact
BoschSpoor
ir. Roel van den Bosch
Ariane 28
5591 PS Heeze
Nederland

T:  +31 40 226 2198
M: +31 6 5343 0599
F:  +31 40 226 4004
e-mail:
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