Comparison of documents of an Automatic Train Protection system project with RAMS standard

Author

Tashiro, Korefumi ; Matsumoto, Masayuki

Author_Institution

Nat. Traffic Safety & Environ. Lab., Chofu, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

23-25 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Development documents of a railway signaling system based on ADS (Autonomous Decentralized System) architecture has conformity with RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) standard IEC 62278. A project to replace existing ATP (Automatic Train Protection) system in Tokyo metropolitan commuter lines with new one had been successfully carried out from 1996 to 2004 keeping continuity of service through the construction including extension of renewal sections. An examination on the documents of the project showed that ADS design concept realized suitable documentation architecture as well as reasonable procedure of allocation of safety-related functions and hardware devices both to meet with the requirements of documentation manners from the RAMS standard.

Keywords

IEC standards; document handling; railway engineering; railway safety; IEC 62278 standard; Tokyo metropolitan commuter lines; automatic train protection system project; autonomous decentralized system architecture; documentation architecture; documents comparison; hardware devices; railway signaling system; safety-related functions; Availability; Communication system signaling; Documentation; Hardware; IEC standards; Maintenance; Protection; Rail transportation; Railway safety; Standards development; ADS; ATC; ATO; IEC; RAMS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2009. ISADS '09. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4327-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISADS.2009.5207320

Filename

5207320