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Illustration of a unified quality assurance process for road and rail design, showing a digital checklist dashboard connected to standardized templates, process transparency, traceability, comparable data, and quality control.

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  • One View for the Entire Quality Assurance Process

    One View for the Entire Quality Assurance Process

    This is how the self-delivery of road and railway design was standardized Tanja Karonen Road and railway design is a long, multi-stage, and strictly regulated process. The design is guided by EU regulation, national legislation, the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency's Technical...

  • Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency – cost savings in quality control

    Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency – cost savings in quality control

    Summary In the Finnish Transport Agency's design projects, quality assurance is not just a checklist but a part of long-term risk management and information preservation. The preparation time for road and rail projects can be up to 20 years, which…

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  • One View for the Entire Quality Assurance Process

    How the self-handover of road and railway design was harmonized Tanja Karonen Road and railway design is a long, multi-stage, and strictly regulated process. The design is guided by EU regulations, national legislation, the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency's Technical and Safety Guidelines, as well as the RTJJ, the Safety Management System for Railway Actors, and the TPJJ, the Safety Management System for Road Maintenance. A design project lasts several years; for the largest projects, the entire lifecycle of design and implementation can stretch up to twenty years. Along the way...

  • Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency – cost savings in quality control

    Summary: In the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency's planning projects, quality assurance is not merely a checklist, but part of long-term risk management and knowledge retention. The preparation time for road and rail projects can be up to 20 years, which makes quality assurance exceptionally demanding: information has time to change owners, systems, and contributors multiple times. In this overall entity, the quality assurance process for planning projects was developed across several parallel sub-entities: the minimum requirement for self-handover by design and implementation service providers, as well as the client's quality assurance points...