The research and development of automated to autonomous light rail vehicles, often referred to as people movers, has led to a need for situational analysis methods suitable for system-of-systems such as railways. This requirement becomes all the more important if people movers are to be used on conventional routes, i.e., “open track”.
This paper therefore aims to apply the automotive “Safety Of The Intended Functionality” (SOTIF) approach to railways, using domain-specific adaptations of this approach. The applicability is demonstrated using the example of a railway crossing analysis. Passive railway crossings have the highest number of collisions between vulnerable traffic participants and railway vehicles. The idea is to use selected scenarios and scenes to identify and analyse critical situations in the crossing area, resulting in safety requirements. Fulfilment of these requirements ensures safe traffic in the crossing area by reducing hazards and accidents to an acceptable level.
Situation Analysis for Railway Safety: Adapting SOTIF for Passive Crossings
Communic.Comp.Inf.Science
European Conference on Software Process Improvement ; 2024 ; Munich, Germany September 04, 2024 - September 06, 2024
2024-09-07
15 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Situation analysis , autonomous vehicle , railway , crossing , critical situation , SOTIF Computer Science , Management of Computing and Information Systems , Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems , Computer Applications , Computer Communication Networks , Computer System Implementation , Artificial Intelligence
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