SAFETY METHODOLOGY IN RAIL RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
The report records the results of a study by the National Transportation Safety Board of the October 2, 1972, accidental derailment of a BART train and of the significant management and institutional approaches used to achieve safety as they influenced this system. The purpose of focusing attention on the cause and effect impact of this subject matter on the safety of the BART hardware system is to make this experience available to other municipalities who are implementing or are contemplating the development of a new rail rapid transit system. The report recommends abandonment of the fail-safe concept, and an organized disciplined approach to accomplishing rapid transit system safety, through the application of current safety management and engineering concepts.
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Corporate Authors:
National Transportation Safety Board
490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
Washington, DC United States 20594 - Publication Date: 1973-8-8
Media Info
- Pagination: 43 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automatic control; Crash injury research; Crash investigation; Crashes; Derailments; Design standards; Fail safe systems; Maintainability; Railroads; Rapid transit; Reliability; Research; Safety; Safety engineering; Signal generators; Systems engineering
- Identifier Terms: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District; U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
- Geographic Terms: California
- Old TRIS Terms: Crystal oscillators; Fail safe design; Ntsb; Rapid transit railways
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Railroads; Research; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00050740
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
- Report/Paper Numbers: NTSB-RSS-73-1 Special St
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 31 1982 12:00AM