SIGNAL+DRAHT | Ausgabe 10/2021
Approach for a Risk Analysis for Automated Train Operation
The ATO-RISK project, which was commissioned by the German Centre for Rail Traffic Research (DZSF), has been given the goal of deriving “risk acceptance criteria for automated driving on railways”, albeit under the following contractual boundary conditions: R1 – the task is related to train movements on normal train routes in the German Federal Railways (EdB) network using automation systems, but focussing on the GoA 3 and GoA 4 grades of automation; R2 – no special solution architectures will be evaluated and no safety objectives will be derived for technical components; R3 – the aim is to ensure that the quantitative results (e.g....