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Charter
Promote the development and tailored application of SE best practices to ground Transportation and Transit systems, including public and private interests and seamless inter-modal interfaces. With emphasis on roadways, bus & rail transit.
INCOSE ITTS Woking Group
Intelligent Transportation & Transit Systems Working Group covers the field of ground transportation:
- Rail
- Subway/Metro
- Bus
- Roadway
Within this field, we support INCOSE's mission to advance the art and practice of Systems Engineering. [See our charter] We are an international collaboration and our members represent Owners, Consultants, Suppliers, and Academics.
Major challenges face ground transportation projects, including:
- New technology applications and their integration with legacy systems
- Requirements management and change management in dynamic environments over multi-year project development cycles
- Definition of systems verification and validation processes that ensure the Owner gets a system that performs as expected over its lifecycle
Failure to address these challenges properly has resulted in projects that did not deliver their required benefits and exceeded their budgets and schedules. We all have a stake in improving project delivery and we believe that the application of SE will enable the success of the complex projects that will provide the means to move more people and goods securely and efficiently.
2008 International Workshop ITTS WG Summary Presentation
Size: 200K
Invitation
We invite you to join us. Join the discussion and become part of the solution.
We are working towards adapting SE best practices to benefit ground transportation projects.
We convene regularly via webcasts and conference calls and meet when we can at INCOSE International Symposiums and Workshops. We have activities underway to address the ground transportation aspects of SE issues such as lacking SE resources, establishing the value proposition for SE, developing common SE terminology and process across the project life-cycle.
We also collaborate with INCOSE Chapter groups active in the field such as the UK Rail Interest Group.
There is no charge to INCOSE members to join the Working Group. If you wish to join or simply have questions, please contact the ITTS WG.
International Symposium 2008 (IS08)
Join us at the International Symposium in Utrecht, Netherlands June 15-19, 2008
IS08 Rail/Transit program highlights include:
- Mon. 16 June AM: Opening keynote speaker - Bert Klerk, CEO, Dutch ProRail
- Mon. 16 June AM: Rail/Transit Roundtable Executive Panel Session, Invited Executive Participants include:
- Bert Klerk - Chairman, Prorail (NL)
- Connie Crawford - Senior V.P. & Chief Engineer, New York City Transit (USA)
- Andrew McNaughton - Chief Engineer, Network Rail (UK)
- Eddie Goddard - Chief Engineer, London Underground (UK)
- Mon. 16 Jun PM: Rail/ Transit Roundtable Working Session - Addressing Industry challenges in applying SE to Rail/Transit Industry.
INCOSE Rail/Transit Roundtables bring Industry representatives together to address industry challenges:
- new technology applications
- systems integration with legacy interfaces
- requirements managementin dynamic environments over multi-year project development cycles
- managing migration over multi-phased contract deployments
Tues. 17 June: Panel: System Acceptance for Rail/Transit System of Systems
Wed. 18 June: Transportation Sub-theme Track - 3 transportation related papers, Tour Rijkswaterstaat Traffic Management Center
Wed. 18 Jun: Banquet at Railway Museum
Thurs. 19 June: Transportation Sub-theme Track - Panel: Tailoring SE to Transit - Optimizing In-service Systems
Other Transortation related papers will be presented throughout the week.
Benefits of attending:
- Collaborate with industry colleagues practicing SE
- Exchange emerging best practices and experiences
- Interact with Industry Executives
- Share tailoring approaches to applying SE within rail/transit (organization, project level)
- Expand network of experienced SE practitioners working accross many domains
For further information regarding symposium program details or accommodations in Uttrecht, the Netherlands, please visit the IS08 website.
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