OGC Best Management Practice - Home 

A Brand New Look for Best Management Practice! As you can see we've made a few improvements to the Best Management Practice Website: topic area tabs are colour coordinated with the swirl logo colours for ... ease of navigation; we've added an area for the new P3O guidance due to publish this autumn; and information on all the available publications can now be found in the Portfolio Library with a separate publications search and Your Account area for managing your purchases and downloads. If you have any comments, queries, or suggestions for further improvements, please use our feedback form to let us know your thoughts. About Best Management Practice To ensure that the community is provided with official up-to-date information, the , on behalf of OGC , has launched a number of official websites for its best practice guidance: ITIL , PRINCE2 , MSP and M_o_R . www.best-management-practice.com is the official umbrella website providing support for all levels of adoption and is dedicated to m   [More...] [Less...]

19 Risk management in rail transport [pdf]

Casualty Risk Consulting Information for insurers 19 Risk management in rail transport © 2006 Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Königinstrasse 107 80802 München Germany Order number 302-04770 Casualty ... Risk Consulting Information for insurers Münchener Rück Munich Re Group 19 Risk management in rail transport © 2006 Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Königinstrasse 107 80802 München Germany Tel.: +49 (89) 38 91-0 Fax: +49 (89) 39 90 56 http://www.munichre.com Responsible for content Corporate Underwriting/Global Clients Casualty Risk Consulting (CRC) Person to contact Dr. Gerhard Schmid Tel.: +49 (89) 38 91-98 69 Fax: +49 (89) 38 91-7 98 69 E-mail: gschmid@munichre.com Printed by Lipp GmbH, Graphische Betriebe Meglingerstrasse 60 81477 München Germany 1 Contents 1 Introduction 3 2 Basics of rail transport 4 2.1 Railway organisations and associations 4 2.1.1 International Union of Railways (UIC) 4 2.1.2 International Union of Public Transport (UITP) 6 2.1.3 Other associa   [More...] [Less...]

Halcrow in Australasia - traction and rolling stock 

Australasia: services Traction and rolling stock Halcrow in Australia has a strong capability in freight, passenger and light rail rolling stock strategy, management and engineering. The strong local team ... is supplemented by the full international resources of the Halcrow Group and offers expertise in: Maintenance and asset management . Recent projects include preparation of the maintenance specification and contract negotiation for the supply of maintenance for a 15-year period for 31 x 3-car electric multiple units for the New MetroRail project in Perth, Western Australia and condition assessment of the total fleet of passenger rolling stock in Auckland, New Zealand. New-build and refurbished rolling stock specification and project management. Our extensive skills in this area include preparation of tender documents for RailCorp’s PPP project to replace 500 cars in the Sydney metropolitan system; and specification of new freight locomotives and wagons for a major Australian freight fo   [More...] [Less...]

IEEE Xplore - Login 

Optimization of an MRT Train Schedule: Reducing Maximum Traction Power by Using Genetic Algorithms Chen, J.-F.; Lin, R.-L.; Liu, Y.-C. Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Volume 20, Issue 3, Aug. 2005 ... Page(s): 1366 - 1372 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPWRS.2005.851939 Summary: Because of the traction power load characteristics of mass rapid transit (MRT) systems, a significant difference exists between the peak and valley of the traction power load curve. Furthermore, an extremely high traction power peak occurs if numerous trains are accelerating simultaneously. Careful train scheduling can avoid the simultaneous acceleration of too many trains, thus reducing maximum traction power. This paper employs genetic algorithms to optimize train scheduling and uses the Kaohsiung MRT system as an example. Simulation results show that the proposed method can significantly reduce the maximum traction power. » View citation and abstract Log in by entering your IEEE Web Account Username and P   [More...] [Less...]

The Convergence of Physical and Information Security in the Context of Enterprise Risk Management [pdf]

Secure Infrastructure Design [pdf]

Scott C. Zimmerman, CERT ® Coordination Center Information technology (IT) and enterprise networks have become the core of many organizations. Critical business functions often depend on a fully functioning ... IT infrastructure: no network means no ability to generate revenue. To this end, an organization’s growth and evolution should be reflected in the growth and evolution of its network. Organizational changes can include new or expanded missions, new factors such as mobile workers, and growth or downsizing in response to purely external factors. Infrastructure changes that stem from these factors can include additional network components (of a type already present), new types of components, and additional subnets or Internet connections. This paper describes the fundamental components of infrastructure design, provides an overview of risk management concepts, and illustrates samples of network topologies. Background A brief discussion of some common network entities will lay the groun   [More...] [Less...]