Control Technology of Railway Traffic Safety: A System Approach and Digitalization

Abstract

The article analyzes the main regulatory documents governing the safety management of railway transport in Ukraine and the EU. It has been revealed that in the safety management system there is no the control algorithm.

The idea of the control algorithm uses the Statistical Regularity Method for Safety Management. The basic principles of the Method are “bottleneck”, norms of behavior, tolerance, statistical regularity, the final result of the transport system activity. The algorithm uses traditional statistics of safety violations. As the bottleneck, the most important background (the fundamental cause) in ensuring the transportation process is considered. A procedure of support of the management decision development to ensure the required level of safety is proposed.

A specific set of actions that lead to the formation of a management decision is proposed. The use of norms of behavior adapts the management process to existing traditions in the organization. The control algorithm will help to reduce the impact of the human.

Conclusions: 1. The proposed safety control algorithm allows not to provide safety in general, but to focus on “bottlenecks”. This makes the management process transparent and directional, and financing efficient. 2. Conditions have been created for introducing digitalization into the process of safety management in transport. 3. Use of the system approach will allow estimating integrally failures in the transportation process and moving to the concept of eliminating bottlenecks. 4. It is possible to apply the proposed control algorithm in other modes of transport, safety directions and technologies.