Designing highly automated safety-critical railway system and its organization

High-speed rail (HSR) has improved dramatically since its launch in 1964 in terms of its technical aspects such as speed and reliability, thanks to technical developments including the automation of the train operation. At the same time, safety has become an increasingly critical aspect as the severity of the accidents has become much more severe. Although the automation and newly developed software might have decreased the number of accidents that would not have been prevented without them, they also have introduced new types of hazards and accidents that did not exist before due to the increased level of complexity of the whole system. These hazards include system design errors, component interactions accidents, or software-related errors due to the increased number of interfaces and coordination among internal and external stakeholders and higher dependency on automation and software.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering and Management Program

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Odajima, Ryo,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• John P. Thomas.

• Engineering and Management Program.
• System Design and Management Program.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122433

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/122433