What is Railway

Engineering?
Mikael Korvi, DAR
 What is Railway Engineering?

Railway Engineering is a specialist field in Transportation and Civil Engineering.

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Railways are:
 incredibly complex
 expensive systems
 exclusively designed for the efficient passage of trains to transport people, freight and equipment.

Design, construction, maintenance and operation of trains and rail systems

* …from Operational aspects!

 Public Transportation System
Rail – the backbone of transportation!
 City Area development needs Rail to grow!
 Regional, Metropolitan, City center
 All transport modes need cooperation with each other!

Commuter,
LRT, Metro
APM Regional Inter City High Speed
Tram

Operation Infrastructure Rolling Stock

Design management – Civil – Rail Sys – Integration – Interface – Asset Management

Safety - RAM (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability)

Design of Systems, Stations, Tunnels, Depots  Safe

 Operable
 Functional
Stations design
o Size, dimension
o Function
o Passenger flow
o Safety

Track design
o Alignment
o Profile
o Geometry
o Safety
 WBS on station Design:

• VHS (Vertical, Horizontal System) Fire and Life Safety

o Escalator, Elevators, Travellators
• Illumination/Lighting
• Fire and Life Safety Plan
o Emergency Lighting
• Requirements for Emergency Routes
o Station lighting
• Requirements for Firefighting
• Escape routes
o hydrant spacing
• Emergency doors
o pressure
o Location
o flows and duration of pressures and flows
o Size
• Requirements for Fire Detection
• Station
o methods, fire panel, communications
o BOH, FOH rooms
o Retail areas
o Signage, Wayfinding
o O&M Design
o Station Control Room (SCR)
o Telecom, SCADA
o Platforms, (fences, screen door)
• Power Supply
o Emergency Power, UPS, Electricity
• MEP
o Equipment rooms
o HVAC
o Drainage
o Smoke Control

5
 Entering Station/station flow

To platform
INFORMATION NODE
• -DISPLAY FOR REAL TIME INFORMATION
• -INTERACTIVE TERMINAL/DIGI-TALKER AFC
• -CLOCK
• -LOUDSPEAKER
• -TACTILE ORIENTATION MAP OVER THE STATION AREA
• -MEETING PLACE FOR ESCORT WITH INDICATION SIGN AND SEATING
• -DIRECTION SIGNS TO TRACKS AND OTHER STATION FUNCTIONS

Information Information
 Station platforms
The platform must provide all types of traveler with safety and comfort, and meet the needs of the modern traveler.

Platform dimensions

Width: Length: 410 m

Central platform: 10 m
Side platform: 6.5 m

Consider:
Due to speed 250 mph, passenger
safety : Fences, screen door on
platform
Fences/screen
Rolling Stock (RST) design
o Mode
o Speed
o Capacity
o Location
o Safety

Depot design
o Fleet size
o RST Mode
o Service, Facilities
o Safety
Railway systems

o Railway signaling
o Train control
o Track
o Rolling Stock
o Power Supply
o Fare collection
o CCTV, Public address
o Access control, Intrusion detection
o PSD (Passenger Screen Doors)
o MEP
o RAM, Safety, Fire & Life strategy
Train control & railway signaling
o OCC design
o SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
o Network design
o Safety

Power Supply
o Energy electrification
 Third rail
 Overhead catenary system
 Battery system
 Safety
Automatic Fare collection
o Gates, ticketing
o CCTV
o Public address
o Safety

Intrusion detection
o Access control
o Safety

MEP
o (HVAC, Elec, drainage, emergency…)

RAM, Safety, Fire & Life strategy

MaaS, Mobility as a Service:
Real-time Information
 Improved journey planning
 Traffic management
 Personalized mobility service
Effectiveness & Efficiency
 Improved planning, commuting, travel
an payment choice.
Smarter Cities
 Reduced congestions, pollution, cost
saving – Greener city!
Imagine a big rail system, in a big city…without any harm to people, no
injuries, no fatalities to users, operating staff or the public! Zero (0)
harm…

Authority Approval Process Plan (AAPP)

Design, Safety production Design, Safety production ISA Regulator
Final

O&M/Civil/Sys
Org planning ISA/IRB Regulator
Org planning Assessment chain

ACCEPTANCE
PSC
Hazid Assessment chain ACCEPTANCE
Standard Control Proc Hazid
Accident Incid Inv Standard Control Proc
Submission/ Submission/

SC
Emergency Plan Accident Incid Inv
Procurement SONO of PSC Emergency Plan SONO of FSC
Procurement Revenue
Auditing
Fire & Life safety Auditing START!

Hazard Log Production P-Hazard Log Final-Hazard Log

ISA/IRB

Hazard Log
Hazids, Client ISAchain
Regulator
Hazid Civil, Infrastruture Draft Assessment chain Map Control
Review Hazard Log Hazard Log Hazard Log

System
available Client Measures to
identification Submission available Submission
Review Requirements
HazOps, V&V
Civil/System System. Op Part of Safety Part of Safety
Case Case

Assurance (SA)
Certification/ Systems Assurance ensures that all parties work within the
Revenue start! frame of the CENELEC, EN 50126 system lifecycle,
from design to validation and acceptance. Providing the
ALARP (As low As Reasonable Practicable) risk
reduction.

Verification
& Validation

Systematic approach:
• System Assurance plan
• RAM Program Plan
Third party assessment
• Safety Plan
Independent Safety • Design review – Safety
Assessor perspective
Independent Review Body • Hazard Log

• Risk rating,
Workshops/Audits • Risk Mitigation
Risk Assessment • Control measures
Mitigation • Evidence
 Methods

Hazard Identification

All reasonably foreseeable hazards that may arise within the scope of the system definition shall be identified by hazard analysis.
The process covers both Civil works and System Contractors work.
Log Field Hazard Log Contents
Number A unique reference number.
Mode of operation in which the hazard is expected to
occur: Normal, Degraded, Emergency, Maintenance
zard Identified The date the Hazard Log entry was created.
Hazard
The current statusCategory
of the hazard: new, open, closed. Procedure
Status Change The last date that the hazard status was revised.
Category The type category of the hazard: Go thru all Hazards – Line By Line! Determine:
 Derailment hazards
• Applicable to AMI APM System
 Collision hazards
• Discipline, MEP, ARC…
 Fire hazards
• Risk assessment
 Explosion hazards
• Mitigation to design out Hazard
 Impact hazards
• Residual risk determination
 Entrapment hazards
 Electrical hazards
• Owner
 Trip/fall hazards
• Control measure (later)
 Other hazards.

The system or sub-system to which the hazard relates.

y The component to which the safety function applies
Hazard Description of the causes of the hazard being realized.
Description Description of the hazard and its cause which, if realized, has the
potential to cause an accident.
Railway Sub-system
 Hazard: A physical situation with a potential for human injury

 Hazard Workshops Approval: O&S Contractor

 Risk assessment  Client Handover continues
 Mitigation  ISA Working on Hazard Log
 Control measure  IRB

Hazard Id. DAR/L+E Entry date Status Category Discipline/ Subsystem Operation Hazard Description Cause Consequence Last Last Mitigation Measures
Responsible Design System Mode m odified by m odified
team on

HLFF-STN01 Entrapment ARC platform Normal Platform Overcrowding Festive Passenger Adequate platform width to be provided. Peak
ARC, WTB /Degraded season, train injuries patronage calculation. Crowd barrier.
ARC, Concourse /Emergency delay or Operation procedures.
breakdown
HLFF-STN02 Entrapment ARC Station Normal / Overcrowding at station People Passenger Ensure adequate entrance design and
Entrance Degraded entrance/ exit getting into injuries escalator provision. Staircase width and
the entrance station concourse is design to allow for
point when sufficient patronage forecast.
others are
leaving the
HLFF-STN03 Trips/Fall ARC Evacuation Normal Insufficient staircase Space Crushing/ Sufficient staircases to be provided. Design
system /Degraded width of entrance / constraint , overcrowding criteria include requirement for sufficient
/Emergency evacuation. Station injuries; staircase width. The width of the staircase is
design passengers governed by building regulation and the time
HLFF-STN04 Fi re TUN Eva cua tion Emergency Smoke i n eva cua tion Any fi re. illness/
Pa s s enger for evacuation.
Smoke barrier to be provided. Redundancy of
s ys tem pa th Smoke i njuri es a nd smoke extraction system.
extra ction fa tal i ties .
s ys tem
 Authority Approval Process Plan (AAPP)

Hazard Log Production PREL-Hazard Log Final-Hazard Log

DAR Design team + System Assurance + O&S Contractor

Hazard Log

Hazard Log Hazard Log

Hazid Hazids Submission Map Control -
Submission
identification Fixed Facilities Hazard Client Measures to
Draft Client Log Revie Requirements
Part of Part of
available Review w
Hazids, HazOps, Safety Case ISA Safety Case
System/Op ISA

Prel Safety Case Production Final SC Production

ISA Regulator
FF/Sys/O&M
Safety Case

Org planning ISA Regulator

Hazid Assessment Final SC

ACCEPTANCE
PSC
Assessment
Standard Control Org planning chain ACCEPTANCE
Proc
chain
Hazid
Accident Incid Inv Standard Control
Emergency Plan Submission Proc Submission
Procurement Accident Incid Inv /
Auditing Emergency Plan SONO of
Revenue
Fire & Life safety Procurement FSC START!
Auditing
Thank you.

17/10/2019 Dar Group