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SA Event: Local joint RTSA and IRSE Meeting

September 2, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm ACST

The Railway Technical Society of Australasia (RTSA) South Australia Chapter invites you to join them and the Institution of Railway Signalling Engineers (IRSE) for a local joint meeting  online using Teams at 4:30-6:00pm (ACST).

Programme

  • 4:30pm Meeting Opening – Georgina Hartwell, IRSE Australasian Chair
  • 4:35pm Lessons from Derailment Investigations
    Tony Simes, Senior Transport Safety Investigator, ATSB
  • 5:15pm Phoenix Virtualisation and Disaster Recovery project – Network Control Centres
    Doug Adams, Manager Operational Technology Project Services – ARTC
  • 6:00pm Meeting Conclusion

 

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Speakers

Lessons from Derailment Investigations

The presentation discusses the safety investigations into two similar derailments that occurred about two years apart. Tony will discuss what happened, why it happened and what lessons organisations can learn from derailment investigations.

Tony Simes
Manager Rail Safety Investigations – ATSB
Tony has 35 years’ experience in railway engineering, management, regulation and investigation, and holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) and a Diploma of Transport Safety Investigation.

Tony previously held the position of ‘Signal Design Engineer’ for the metropolitan passenger railway organisation in Adelaide (SA) before moving to the Rail Safety Regulator in South Australia as their ‘Accreditation Manager’.

In 2004, Tony joined the Australian Transport Safety Bureau as a ‘Senior Transport Safety Investigator’ (Rail) and in 2012 took on the role of managing and coordinating rail safety investigations across Australia.

In 2017, the ATSB underwent a restructure which created multi-modal investigation teams. Tony
currently manages a team of investigators split between ATSB’s Adelaide and Perth offices. The team consists of rail, marine, aviation and specialist human factors.

 

Phoenix Virtualisation and Disaster Recovery project – Network Control

Centres Business objectives and outcomes

  • To recover our existing operational systems in the agreed timeframes in the event of a disaster.
  • Deliver a virtualised/replicated environment, that allows recoverability of our Operational Systems, and for them to be run independently of the location of any of our train control centres

Who is involved?

  • The project involves many stakeholders including as key suppliers, operations, customers, various SMEs from ARTC’s Systems and Technology division

System virtualisation platform

  • ARTC has chosen Flexpod as the system virtualisation platform. FlexPod is a data center platform that is used to host infrastructure software and business applications in virtualised environments.

Security model

  • Cyber security is at the forefront of the platform design. This includes operational environment protection from other zones, restricting
    an attacker’s ability to move within operational systems if the perimeter has been breached, and physical security.

Disaster and failover scenarios accommodated by the design

  • Network Control floor is evacuated however, the Data Centre and systems are operational. (e.g. pandemic)
  • A disaster has occurred and both Network Control and the Data Centre are non-operational

Doug Adams
Manager Operational Technology Project Services – ARTC
Employed in the rail industry for over 30 years, commencing as an apprentice Signal Electrician with PTC in 1979, then worked as Signal Technician and Signal Supervisor. Is a graduate of CSU with a Bachelor of Information Technology and started with ARTC in 2004 to rollout IT Infrastructure for the NSW take-up.

Has overseen delivery of ARTC capital works signalling projects as Signal Alliance Coordinating Manager and as Train Control Systems Manager, has overseen the support teams responsible for ARTC’s Train Control and other operational systems.
Is continuing the development of technical solutions and strategies for ARTC’s Operational Technology with the Systems and Technology division.

 

Register to attend here.

Organisers

Railway Technical Society of Australasia
IRSE South Australia