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Quantitative safety integrity level evaluation of controll systems in railway application

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Quantitative safety integrity level evaluation of controll systems in railway application


Funding origin:
Slovakia
Slovakia
STRIA Roadmaps:
Connected and automated transport (CAT)
Connected and automated transport
Network and traffic management systems (NTM)
Network and traffic management systems
Transport mode:
Rail
Rail
Transport sectors:
Passenger transport
Passenger transport
Freight transport
Freight transport
Duration:
Start date: 01/12/2012,
End date: 01/12/2014

Status: Finished
Funding details:

Overview

Objectives:

There are specific cases of control system applications in which the control system is required to fulfil its control, as well as safety functions. The control system that meets this criterion is usually referred to as a safety related control system (SRCS). The control systems in railway applications fall into the SRCS category. Safety functions are, together with a tolerable hazard rate, determined by a risk analysis and implemented via technical measures. Technical measures ought to decrease an amount of risk related to specific hazards. If the SRCS is meant to be approved, a lone implementation of the safety measures is not enough. A proof that related risk has been decreased to an acceptable level is mandatory. Each individual user of a service (of a railway transport for instance) should take a risk that is the same everywhere, independent of a country. The process of making risk analyses objective is, together with the definition of system safety requirements and safety evaluation, very problematic nowadays.

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