Background

The European Urban Guided Transport sector (Lightrails, Metros, but also Tramways and Regional Commuter trains) is still characterized by a highly diversified landscape of Safety Requirements, Safety Models, Responsibilities and Roles and Safety Approval, Acceptance and Certification Schemes.

Furthermore security items are considered more and more as vital for the urban transport sector. In some cases these items are linked to the safety of the urban transport systems. In this context safety is seen as everything dealing with the methods and techniques to avoid accidents. Security is concerned with the protection of persons and the system from criminal acts.

Objective

The project aims to help streamline and bring some degree of voluntary standardisation within this sector by building a Safety Analysis and Model Reference for the future for Urban Guided Transport projects.

Network of Operators

The operator network will be led by UITP in order to obtain support from UITP members and the relevant UITP committees, achieve a Europe-wide coordination and motivate operators to specify in future their systems (e.g. by procurement of new rolling stock) along with the concept and methodology developed in the MODSafe project.

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