The improvement of the safety-case process in practice: From problems and a promising approach to highly automated safety case guidance

Abstract

The European project called "INESS - Integrated European Signalling System" aims at defining and developing specifications for a new generation of interoperable interlocking systems suitable to be integrated in ERTMS systems, with the objective of making the migration to ERTMS more cost-effective. The Technical University of Braunschweig is leader of the part of INESS that deals with the safety case process. The aim of this essential subproject is to reduce time and money for the development of the safety case in industry, i.e. operators as well as suppliers, by avoiding unnecessary or redundant procedures. In this workstream a dozen European partners have contributed to the results. © 2010 WIT Press.