Markus Rubner is a technical consultant in rail vehicle technology at Wiener Linien (public transport company in Vienna) and responsible for subway procurement. He is currently busy with the procurement of the X-Car. It will be used throughout the network, even driverless on the future U5.

He spoke about the measures necessary to make driverless operation safe. He tells how accidents can be avoided and what happens if accidents nevertheless happen.

In the underground information center you can find out more about the construction of the underground and, above all, about the future driverless U5.

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Thomas Bleier is an information security expert for industrial applications. In the course of his self-employed undertakings, he is also a university lecturer at the UAS Campus Wien and chairman of the standardizing working group "IACS Security" (Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security) in the OVE. This represents the corresponding national committee for the development of the IEC 62443 series of standards.

In addition to general considerations on security in the industrial / machine environment, the podcast covered the issue of why security considerations cannot be disregarded in the future if one wants to have a safe / secure system. The IEC 62443 series deals with security in the IACS environment.

The standards and drafts mentioned were the IEC 62443 series and IEC PAS 63325 ED1 (Lifecycle requirements for Functional Safety and Security for IACS).

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Andreas Gerstinger is a system engineering and system safety expert with experience in air traffic control and rail systems. He is also a part-time lecturer at the UAS Campus Wien and UAS Technikum Wien.

He spoke about the importance of systems engineering in safety-related projects. Among other topic software erros were discussed: Whether there are software errors at all or what is actually meant by them in most cases.

The mentioned book by Crawley, Cameron and Selva, System Architecture: Strategy and Product Development for Complex Systems1, is available at the local bookstore of your choice or on Amazon.

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Thomas Fränzl, Domain Manager Air Traffic Control Tower & Airport at Frequentis, is a former air traffic controller and human factors and usability expert with many years of experience in safety-critical systems. He is also a part-time lecturer at the UAS Campus Wien und UAS St. Pölten.

In the podcast he talked about the beginnings of human factors and how human factors influenced the safety of systems. Positive and negative examples were addressed and it was shown that humans are also present in highly automated systems and must be taken into account.

The book recommendation mentioned are

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  1. Episode 2: Just Culture - mit Alfred Vlasek
  2. Episode 1 - Einführung