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5.4.4 Revisiting Accumulated Wisdom After 100 Years Of Engineering Railway Systems
Author(s) -
Williams John,
Allan Jeff,
Jin Jenny Q
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1998.tb00082.x
Subject(s) - centralisation , outsourcing , architecture , transport engineering , engineering , business , computer science , risk analysis (engineering) , economics , market economy , marketing , art , visual arts
There are a number of reasons why new types of segmentation of railway systems are worthy of consideration, e.g.: New technology, particularly applied to communications and computing, Operational economies and improvements to the recovery from disruption provided by the centralisation of control of railways, The impact of traction power supply on both the future environment and on the diminishing fossil fuel sources, Major changes in methods of funding large railway projects, The extensive use of Outsourcing of maintenance and other services, The vision that railways are part of an integrated transport system implying a need to take a flexible approach to the developing external interfaces. The implications of these, together with the increasing emphasis on safety and the railway customers needs has resulted in a re‐evaluation of the traditional approach to railway system architecture.