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https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27432/critical-issues-in-transportation-for-2024-and-beyond

Operation model for railway incident management

Rautatieliikenteen hairionhallinnan toimintamalli

The aim of the project was to define an operation model for railway incident management. The operation model guides the further development of incident management while the railway sector will face major changes. The most important factors changing the railway incident management are the increase of the number of railway companies and maintainers of the railway network and its equipment. These and a number of other smaller factors make it necessarily to renew the operation model and the way in which incident management is organised. However this has to be done by maintaining the well working parts of the present system. The operation model for railway incident management describes the tasks of authorities, railway companies, network constructors and other relevant parties during different incident management situations. The essential parts of the operation model are: 1) co-operative planning of the incident management, 2) incident management of the situations that are known in advance, 3) real time incident management and 4) analysis and reporting afterwards. Some of main decisions of the operation model are planning of a common blueprint for the incident management between the different actors, centralised collection and coordinated delivery of the incident information, cooperation in planning timetables for incident situations and the way that the communication between authorities and railway companies is organised. The realization of the new operation model requires establishing a new kind of organisation for incident management, creating a more description of the tasks that the operation models showed and development of tools for incident management. An independent traffic management centre is needed to carry out incident management tasks. In addition to the real time incident management the centre has the responsibility to coordinate preparing for the incident situations and to combine timetable plans for situations known in advance. The traffic management centre also handles certain traffic information tasks and coordinates the incident situation analysis afterwards. An incident management quality model will be created to describe and instruct the different tasks of incident situations. The quality model also shows how the operation at incident situations will be monitored and measured. As the number of actors increases the traffic management centre will need new tools to collect and handle information from various sources. In addition to that all the actors carrying out incident management must have a real time access to this common data. The centre also needs a tool to deliver some of this information to the mass media. The incident management is only one of the tasks of the forthcoming traffic management centre. The implementation of the incident management operation model will be a part of the overall development of this large renewal of railway sector institutions. This report is available at http://www.vtt.fi/rte/projects/fits/ or http://www.mintc.fi

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  • Accession Number: 01015306
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: TRL
  • ISBN: 952-201-107-X
  • Files: ITRD
  • Created Date: Jan 12 2006 8:57AM