LESSONS LEAERNED - GETTING TO SOFTWARE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN REVIEW

The New York City Transit (NYCT) Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) Phase A contract will provide ATS capabilities to approximately 1/3 of the New York City subway system. ATS provides centralized command and control functions, real-time train tracking, integrated voice communications, automatic vehicle identification, computer aided routing and dispatching, automatic customer information messaging, report generation and data logging, general order management, monitoring of traction power SCADA, playback and simulation functions. This software intensive system is presently in development and is scheduled to be installed during 2001 and placed in service in 2002. This paper addresses software acquisition development related lessons learned in getting to the Conceptual Design Review. It presents these issues from the customer/user/acquirer viewpoint.

• Corporate Authors:

  American Public Transportation Association

  1201 New York Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC    20005
• Authors:
  • Rubenstein, M
• Conference:
  • 1999 Commuter Rail/Rapid Transit Conference, Proceedings
  • Location: Toronto, Canada
  • Date: 1999-5-22 to 1999-5-27
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 466-469

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Automatic train operation; Automatic train supervision; Centralized traffic control; Management and organization; Software packages; Subways
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00766426
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 20 1999 12:00AM