IEEE Rail Transit Vehicle Interface Standards Committee

MEETING OF WORKING GROUP #2

COMMUNICATION BASED TRAIN CONTROL

PERFORMANCE AND FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

To: WG2 Members and Friends

The next meeting of the IEEE RTVISC Working Group #2 will be hosted by MUNI in San Francisco on July 15, 1998.

The objectives of this meeting will be to follow-up on action items from the previous WG2 meeting (held on March 25, 1998), and to commence a more detailed review of Sections 6.1 (Automatic Train Protection functions) and 6.2 (Automatic Train Operations functions) of the proposed standard, draft D3.0, issued on May 17, 1998.

The meeting location will be at 1145 Market Street, 5th Floor, Main Conference Room.

The meeting will commence at 8:30 am and is expected run through until 5:00 pm. Lunch will be provided. Meeting agenda is as follows:

  1. HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS 8:30 - 9:00
    1. Introductions
    2. Working Group Membership
    3. Ballot Group
    4. IEEE Standards Association
    5. Date/Location of Next Meeting
  3. PREVIOUS WG2 MEETING HELD ON MARCH 25, 1998 9:00 - 10:00
    1. Approval of meeting minutes
    2. Review of meeting action items
      1. Specific values for CBTC parameters
      2. Definitions
      3. Operating modes
      4. Headway requirements
      5. System safety requirements
      6. System availability requirements (see item 4)
      7. Draft D3.0 of proposed standard
  5. REVIEW OF WG2 COMMENTS DATABASE 10:00 - 10:30
  6. (10:30 - 10:45 Break)
  7.  
  8. REVIEW OF SECTION 5.4 ("SYSTEM AVAILABILITY") 10:30 - 12:30
    1. A supplier perspective (Omar Rezzoug, MATRA)
    2. User perspectives
    3. Performance measure (G. Anagnostopoulos)

    (12:30 - 1:30 Lunch)

  10. REVIEW OF SECTION 6.1 ("ATP" FUNCTIONS) 1:30 - 3:00
  11. (3:00 - 3:15 Break)
  12. REVIEW OF SECTION 6.2 ("ATO FUNCTIONS") 3:15 - 4:00
  13.  
  14. SUMMARY OF MEETING ACTION ITEMS AND 4:00 - 4:30
  15. OBJECTIVES FOR NEXT MEETING
  16. ANY OTHER BUSINESS 4:30 - 5:00

Regards,

Alan Rumsey
Chair WG2
Phone: (212) 266 8527
Fax: (212) 266 8536
Email: alan_rumsey@parsons.com