Data-based analysis for SAFETY and security protection, FOR detection, prevention, mitigation and response in trans-modal metro and RAILway networkS
SAFETY4RAILS EU project held its final conference in Paris on 28 September 2022
On 28 September 2022, the SAFETY4RAILS consortium successfully organised its final conference at the UIC headquarters in Paris (France) and online with the participation of more than 80 partners representatives, Advisory Board members and external guests (about 50...
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 883532.
What?
SAFETY4RAILS is a EU funded project in the framework of H2020 SU-INFRA01 which started on 1 October 2020 for 2 years.
Railways and Metros are safe, efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly mass carriers, and they are becoming even more important means of transportation given the need to address climate change.
However, being such critical infrastructures turns metro and railway operators as well as related intermodal transport operators into attractive targets for cyber and/or physical attacks.
The SAFETY4RAILS project will deliver methods and systems to increase the safety and recovery of track-based inter-city railway and intra-city metro transportation.
It addresses both cyber-only attacks (such as impact from WannaCry infections), physical-only attacks (such as the Madrid commuter trains bombing in 2004) and combined cyber-physical attacks, which is an important emerging scenario given the increase in the IoT infrastructure integration.
When an incident occurs during heavy usage, metro and railway operators have to consider many aspects to ensure passenger safety and security. SAFETY4RAILS will improve the handling of such events through a holistic approach.
Why?
The goal of this project is to increase resilience against combined cyber-physical threats including natural hazards to railway infrastructure.
Threat assessment
1. Identification of new threats
2. Detection of new threats
Risk and crisis management improvement
3. Forecast and management of new threats
4. Knowlegde sharing with stakeholders
5. Impact of evolving threats
Improvement of resilience and security
6. Saving response time with decision support
7. Cost effective technological measures
8. Real-time management resilience
9. Multi-modal infrastructure approach
Practitioners and exploitation
10. User training with SAFETY4RAILS components
11. Demonstrating S4RIS operational performance
12. Exploiting S4RIS results
Which use cases ?
SAFETY4RAILS will implement the SAFETY4RAILS Information System (S4RIS) which will analyse the impact of proposed strategies in both the prevention and response phases.
Threat analysis
What happened? Is medical help needed? How many people are affected? How could the event evolve?
Crisis communication
Clear, preserving safety and avoiding creating panic.
Response
How to react? How to go back to the normal situation as soon as possible?
What’s innovative in SAFETY4RAILS?
Artificial Intelligence oriented detection, mitigation, prevention, forecasting and fast response
Railway and metro operators and end users focused realistic approach
Two railways, and two metro end-users are involved as full partners from various parts of Europe to cover a broad and complex requirements’ and needs’ analysis
Trans-modal approach
Inter-city, city railway stations, and intra-city metro transport are involved and considered with interfaces to connected public transport options (road, sea, bike, walk)
Partners
The SAFETY4RAILS Consortium is led by Fraunhofer and composed of 31 partners from 13 different countries (Germany, France, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Greece, Finland, Hungary, Israel and Netherlands).
They represent railway operators, railway infrastructure managers, research centres, academia and industry suppliers and bring a range of complementary skills required for this multidisciplinary project.
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Project coordinator
FRAUNHOFER-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
Dissemination
UIC - International union of railways
Security Division: security@uic.org
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 883532.
