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Over the coming years Tube Lines' Jubilee and Northern Lines Upgrade Project (JNUP) will be replacing the fixed-block trip-cock protected signalling and control system currently used on these lines with a transmission based moving block train control system aimed at improving the operational safety and performance of the underground system. Passengers using the Jubilee Line are already benefiting...
The term systems engineering is used to define a systematic way to undertake projects. There is much theory about the use of systems engineering, which from the author's experience has not been well applied to rail projects. The talk considers a major rail project, the East London Line Project, which is now under construction. In particular the application of the principles of system engineering in...
System Engineering has recognised role in avoiding costly integration and performance issues from occurring late in the project lifecycle. These benefits can often be difficult to quantify and can have a long payback period for a large project. There are however a number of tangible early gains that can be made from taking a systems approach from the outset both to the system and the organisation...
The presentation draws on the authors' wide experience as Independent Safety Assessors (ISAs) to identify examples of both good and bad practice in the safety management of rail systems engineering projects. It explores some of the main challenges that projects encounter, and draws out guidance to help projects to overcome these challenges.
In this paper, the author describes the difficulties faced by Hitachi in obtaining all necessary statutory and regulatory safety approvals for the new Class 395 CTRL Domestic Services EMU (“Project Javelin”). The current rolling stock safety approvals process is detailed together with the complex, numerous and often conflicting requirements of the approvals stakeholders. Finally, the author describes...
The presenter believes that railway systems engineering has the same principles as systems engineering in other fields but that the specific needs of rail sometimes require that these principles should be applied in a different way in rail compared with other sectors. The presentation will describe an activity to identify a set of universal principles of systems engineering. It will then describe...
Systems are increasingly dominated by Information Systems whose behaviour may be significantly influence by data (and data errors). This presentation describes the major systems issues arising out of a reliance on data and provides possible solutions for the justification of ‘fit-for-purpose’ of these systems.
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