How can rail and transit organizations transform their asset investment planning processes to enhance performance, increase connectivity, and drive better risk efficiency spend while transitioning to a sustainable future?
Our devolved regions need to be able to evaluate their own investment scenarios to make the best decisions possible, especially when increasingly difficult choices have to be made about where money can be spent.
We were looking for an asset investment planning solution that would enable us to consolidate all our existing models on a single platform and support our ambitious plans for their further development.
Historically, we’d say, ‘this asset is in bad shape.’ Now, we can say, ‘this investment improves safety, increases ridership, and addresses audit findings.’ That changes the conversation.
Decision Analytics for Rail & Transit
Selecting, deploying, and managing capital investments is more challenging than ever before for rail operators, freight carriers, and transit agencies alike. Replacing aging infrastructure, expanding coverage, and adopting new technologies are all imperative to deliver value today and into the future. For freight operators, every dollar of capital must protect network reliability, control cost per ton-mile, and sustain long-term profitability—while public agencies face mounting expectations for safe, equitable, accessible and sustainable service.
At the same time, customer expectations are increasing and the pressure to meet safety, reliability, and sustainability targets is intensifying. The challenge is balancing these competing objectives when there aren’t enough resources—money, people, track access, or time—to do it all. To navigate this complexity, organizations are rethinking their approach to asset investment planning.
How can you be confident you’re making the best decisions—the ones that maintain service levels today and create value for the future?
Maximize the Value of Every Investment
IFS Copperleaf helps organizations maximize the value delivered from their asset investment plans. By developing frameworks to evaluate all investments on equal footing, we enable clients to make transparent, defensible trade-offs between dissimilar projects and intervention options—from those designed to meet KPIs related to service reliability and safety, to those that improve capacity, sustainability, or financial performance.
The IFS Copperleaf Decision Analytics Solution helps organizations forecast long-term sustainment needs across the diverse asset types within their networks—from track, signals and structures to rolling stock, vehicles, and facilities—and develop optimal strategies to manage risk, deliver service, and meet performance targets cost-effectively. This ensures capital is deployed where it delivers the greatest enterprise value—balancing financial performance with safety, service, and sustainability.
Proactively Manage Risk Exposure
Explore how different levels of investment impact safety, service reliability, and financial risk to build a robust, defensible plan.
Improve Planning Efficiency
Assess all investments consistently in a centralized system to break down silos, align engineering and finance, and expedite approvals.
Allocate Funding and Resources with Confidence
Develop executable plans that maximize capital efficiency while meeting performance, compliance, and budgetary constraints.
Execute Corporate Strategy
Align investments with your strategic goals, including operational performance, sustainability, ESG, financial KPIs, public value delivery, and long-term resilience.
Proven Solution Delivers High ROI
Every IFS Copperleaf client has achieved 100% return on their investment within their first planning cycle—and every organization that has implemented our solution continues to use it successfully today. Measurable results include:
increase in capital efficiency
reduction in risk exposure
reduction in planning time
Create optimal investment plans to drive your strategic goals
Delivering the highest value means spending the right amount of money on the right projects at the right time. This is no easy task for organizations that deal with hundreds of potential investment options, each with multiple alternatives and start dates to consider.
IFS Copperleaf’s AI-powered optimization can evaluate thousands of possibilities and identify the optimal plan within minutes. Sensitivity analysis explores the impact of funding levels, timing, and resource constraints on value and risk—enabling the creation of realistic, deliverable plans that meet corporate goals and regulatory expectations. The result: turning investment trade-offs into tangible improvements in capital productivity.
Proactively manage and mitigate operational risks
Many organizations in the rail industry struggle to forecast sustainment needs across diverse asset types, ranging from track and signals to tunnels and stations. Copperleaf can help your organization forecast and optimize asset performance for the next one to one hundred years by calculating the risk, cost, and value over time for each asset and optimal intervention dates. This allows asset managers to create the best sustainment strategy while accounting for all business constraints.
Plan with agility in a dynamic environment
Many organizations—whether freight carriers, infrastructure managers, or transit agencies—struggle to forecast sustainment needs across diverse asset types and regions. IFS Copperleaf helps forecast and optimize asset performance for the next one to one hundred years by calculating risk, cost, and value over time for each asset and identifying optimal intervention points.
This allows asset managers to create the best sustainment strategies while accounting for all operational and business constraints. Whether maintaining high-traffic freight corridors, public transit systems, or national infrastructure, IFS Copperleaf brings clarity to long-term planning and ensures decisions support safety, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. This proactive approach reduces unplanned O&M costs, strengthens financial predictability, and improves asset-level ROI. IFS Copperleaf’s methodology aligns with global asset-management best practices, including ISO 55000 principles, ensuring transparency and consistency across diverse networks.
Adopted by Industry Leaders
Making the highest-value investment decisions at Network Rail
Network Rail selected the Copperleaf Decision Analytics Solution to help manage Britain’s railway infrastructure, which includes 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts, and thousands of signals, level crossings and stations. The Copperleaf solution provides an enterprise-wide platform for strategic asset modeling and investment planning. It is being used to forecast work volumes, outputs, and expenditure across Network Rail’s entire asset base.
Our Product Suite
IFS Copperleaf’s scalable enterprise software grows with your organization and integrates seamlessly with EAM, APM, ERP, GIS, and other systems for more efficient, data-driven decision-making.
IFS Copperleaf Asset: Balance cost, risk, and business outcomes across your entire asset base.
IFS Copperleaf Portfolio: Create the best investment plans for today and an increasingly complex future.
IFS Copperleaf Value: Align your organization to achieve its strategic objectives.
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