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Railway Infrastructure Management - System Engineering and Requirement Management
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering, Rail Vehicles.
2017 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Rail Control Solutions (RCS) is one division of Bombardier Transportation, aimed at optimising flow of trains. OPTIFLO is a new solution package within RCS, providing services and solutions to address challenges in modern railway infrastructures worldwide. Infrastructure Management (IM) Service is a significant sub-module under OPTIFLO, performing monitoring and diagnostic functionalities for each impacted system or component in railway signalling systems to continuously improve safety, reliability and availability.

Requirement management is a significant stage while dealing with engineering problems. In this master thesis project, three modules in railway signalling scope are focused, including system level Infrastructure Management, sub-system level Maintenance and Diagnostic Centre (MDC) and sub-system level Remote Sensor Unit (RSU). For each part, requirement managements have been implemented, referring to CENELEC standards where necessary. The work starts with the draft Requirement Specification for IM and then identify the requirements related to diagnostics and performance in each sub-system. Both links between the requirements in different modules and links between the requirements and their test cases are built from the requirement management tool DOORS to realize verification and validation following the system engineering process. Finally, the standard documentations "System Requirement Specification" for each impacted module that are mostly concerned in the thesis have been released.

Abstract [sv]

Rail Control Solutions (RCS) är en del av Bombardier Transportation, som syftar till att optimera flödet av tåg. OPTIFLO är ett nytt programspaket inom RCS, som erbjuder tjänster och lösningar för att hantera utmaningar inom modern järnvägsinfrastruktur världen över. Infrastrucutre Management (IM) Service är en viktig delmodul under OPTIFLO, som utför övervakning och diagnostiska funktioner för varje påverkat system eller komponent i järnvägssignalsystem för att kontinuerligt förbättra säkerhet, tillförlitlighet och tillgänglighet.

Kravhantering är ett viktigt steg när man arbetar med tekniska problem. Det här mastersprojektet är inriktat på tre moduler inom järnvägssignalområdet: systemnivå Infrastructure Management, underhållssystem för Maintenance and Diagnostic Centre (MDC) och delsystemnivå Remote Sensor Unit (RSU). För varje del har kravhantering implementerats, med hänvisning till CENELEC-standarder vid behov. Arbetet har utgått från utkast till kravspecifikation för IM och identifierat kraven för diagnostik och prestanda i varje delsystem. Både kopplingar mellan kraven i olika moduler och kopplingar mellan kraven och deras testfall är byggda i systemet DOORS för att realisera verifiering och validering i en systemteknisk process. Slutligen släpps standarddokumentationen "Systemkrav Specifikation" för de moduler som behandlar i detta arbete.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. , p. 51
Series
TRITA-AVE, ISSN 1651-7660 ; 2017:66
Keywords [en]
Railway Signalling, OPTIFLO, Infrastructure Management, System Engineering, Requirements
Keywords [sv]
Järnvägssignalering, OPTIFLO, Infrastrucutre Management, Systemteknik, Krav
National Category
Engineering and Technology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-228192OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-228192DiVA, id: diva2:1207027
External cooperation
Bombardier Transportation
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Available from: 2018-05-18 Created: 2018-05-18 Last updated: 2022-06-26Bibliographically approved

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