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Design of Safe Systems

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This chapter deals with brief overview of Railway Signalling and Interlocking (RSI) systems and its characteristics, safety definition, safety integrity levels, methods of safety achievement, problems of safety data transmission and safety approval process. The main purpose of use of these systems is assurance of railway traffic safety that means prevention against railway accidents. There is rich experience with their design gained during more over than 150 years of their evolution. We believe that it can be good inspiration for other systems, for increasing their resilience in disaster conditions.

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  1. Department of Applied Electronics and Telecommunications, Technical University of Pilsen, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 8, Pilsen, 306 14, Czech Republic

    Peter Hlousek & Ivan Konecny

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  1. Peter Hlousek
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  2. Ivan Konecny
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Correspondence to Peter Hlousek .

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and ‘Gheorghe Asachi’ Technical University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania

    Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu

  2. Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies,Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Alan Kirschenbaum

  3. Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova

    Svetlana Cojocaru

  4. Department of Global Health and Populati, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Claude Bruderlein

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Hlousek, P., Konecny, I. (2014). Design of Safe Systems. In: Teodorescu, HN., Kirschenbaum, A., Cojocaru, S., Bruderlein, C. (eds) Improving Disaster Resilience and Mitigation - IT Means and Tools. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9136-6_17

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9136-6_17

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