FlexCare Modernise: Full range of modernisation solutions for existing assets
FlexCare Modernise at a glance
- Market leader for train modernisation
- Flexible and tailored solutions, including consulting
- Lower total cost of ownership
- Smart and energy saving solutions capitalising on existing assets
- Improves passenger experience and accessibility
- Innovative solutions to reduce carbon footprint
Alstom is the market leader and preferred partner for modernisation solutions to enhance and extend the lifetime of rolling stock. FlexCare Modernise™ offers the most comprehensive portfolio of Life, Smart and Green modernisation solutions to address a wide range of customer needs such as minimising lifecycle costs, reducing environmental impact, and enhancing passenger comfort and train performance.
Market leader in modernisation
As the market leader for train modernisation with over 40,000 vehicles modernised around the world, Alstom implements return of experience into every project we deliver, ensuring your trains come back as good as new. Our flexible Life, Green and Smart modernisation solutions allow you to capitalise on your existing rail assets, rather than investing in a new fleet, while benefiting from new functionalities, higher performance, lower carbon footprint, and a longer lifespan.
Consulting expertise to help you make the most of your assets
With new standards and norms, environmental regulations, as well as company decarbonisation goals, many operators and asset owners are required to modernise their fleets. With such a wide range of solutions available on the market, it can be difficult to assess which services are best suited for a particular fleet and operational requirements. Alstom’s experts offer consulting services to help you identify the pain points of your fleet, find the right solutions with our extensive catalogue, and recommend a tailored approach to your unique needs.
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Life modernisation solutions to extend the lifetime of trains
Alstom’s Life modernisation solutions maintain, recover, or extend the performance of existing assets through planned train refurbishments, overhauls and structural repairs. We provide crash repairs, train level overhauls including prototypes, kitting and testing, and obsolescence monitoring and management services. Alstom also offers operation repurposing, by addressing change of route, operator requirements, and capacity or trainset configuration.
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Green modernisation for sustainable mobility
Our Green modernisation portfolio provides solutions to reduce or completely eliminate carbon emissions and implement circular economy and eco-design initiatives. As a pioneer in green traction, Alstom develops new green traction technologies to provide you with more sustainable and emission-free rail assets. Alstom offers green re-tractioning solutions for existing rolling stock, including low emissions solutions with diesel traction upgrades and hybrid solutions, and zero emissions full green re-tractioning, where diesel traction is replaced with battery or hydrogen power.
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Smart modernisation to enhance performance and passenger experience
Alstom’s Smart modernisation solutions bring trains up to date with upgraded performance, new functionalities and innovative technologies. With a catalogue of over 100 Smart modernisation solutions, we have what operators need to keep their fleets abreast with the latest innovations in the rail industry. We provide services to upgrade subsystems to improve operational and energy performance, passenger experience, and deploy digital services enablers. For example, we enhance passenger experience with solutions to improve the interior’s accessibility, comfort, information and connectivity systems.