Protecting The Railways: The Management of Safety in a Fragmented Industry

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The Royal Academy of Engineering

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Overview: This paper considers how safety is managed in an industry that requires very high levels of technical and commercial integration but where management has been distributed between more than 100 different organizations. In comparison with other transport modes, rail is a highly integrated system. Unlike the situation in the road transport industry, the interface between vehicles and the infrastructure is very tightly specified. To achieve stable operation, particularly at high speeds, the track gauge and the profiles of the rail head and the wheel have to be maintained to tolerances of less than 1 mm.

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Format: PDF | Size: 2,673KB | Date: Jul 2003 | Pages: 6

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