The Handbook of RAMS in Railway Systems: Theory and Practice addresses the complexity in today's railway systems, which use computers and electromechanical components to increase efficiency while ensuring a high level of safety. RAM (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability) addresses the specifications and standards that manufacturers and operators have to meet. Modeling, implementation, and assessment of RAM and safety requires the integration of railway engineering systems; mathematical and statistical methods; standards compliance; and financial/economic factors. This Handbook brings together a group of experts to present RAM and safety in a modern, comprehensive manner.

Railways, Rail safety, Railway equipment, Management, Reliability, Maintenance, Safety measures, Occupational safety, Equipment safety, Planning, Performance, Approval testing, Quality assurance, Hazards, Risk assessment, Risk analysis, Personnel, Classification systems, Design, Verification, Production, Installation, Modification, Railway vehicles, Railway electric traction equipment, Quality management Railway applications

Railways, Rail safety, Railway equipment, Management operations, Management, Reliability, Maintenance, Safety measures, Occupational safety, Equipment safety, Planning, Performance, Specification (approval), Approval testing, Quality assurance, Quality, Hazards, Risk assessment, Risk analysis, Personnel, Training, Classification systems, Grades (quality), Certification (approval), Design, Verification, Production, Installation, Modification, Technical documents Railway applications

The Handbook of RAMS in Railway Systems: Theory and Practice addresses the complexity in today's railway systems, which use computers and electromechanical components to increase efficiency while ensuring a high level of safety. RAM (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability) addresses the specifications and standards that manufacturers and operators have to meet. Modeling, implementation, and assessment of RAM and safety requires the integration of railway engineering systems; mathematical and statistical methods; standards compliance; and financial/economic factors. This Handbook brings together a group of experts to present RAM and safety in a modern, comprehensive manner.

Human errors, as well as deliberate sabotage, pose a considerable danger to passengers riding on the modern railways and have created disastrous consequences. To protect civilians against both intentional and unintentional threats, rail transportation has become increasingly automated. Railway Safety, Reliability, and Security: Technologies and Systems Engineering provides engineering students and professionals with a collection of state-of-the-art methodological and technological notions to support the development and certification of ‘real-time safety-critical’ railway control systems, as well as the protection of rail transportation infrastructures.

Railways, Rail safety, Railway equipment, Management operations, Management, Reliability, Maintenance, Safety measures, Occupational safety, Equipment safety, Planning, Performance, Specification (approval), Approval testing, Quality assurance, Quality, Hazards, Risk assessment, Risk analysis, Personnel, Training, Classification systems, Grades (quality), Certification (approval), Design, Verification, Production, Installation, Modification, Technical documents, Railway applications

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Transport Systems Telematics, TST 2012, held in Katowice-Ustron, Poland, in October 2012. The 48 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. Transport telematics are the systems using the information and communication technologies in the area of infrastructure and of means of transport and its participants. An intelligent transport covers systems that allow, through the data transmission and analysis, to influence the behaviour of road users and the action of technical elements in means of transport or along the traffic route. Intelligent transport systems - in accordance with the European Directive - are used for the transport management informatisation. The research shows that the use of telematics can significantly increase the efficiency of the transport system, the road safety and the environmental protection. This book provides an overview of solutions being developed in the field of intelligent transportation systems, and includes theoretical and case studies in the countries of conference participants.