D13.1 – Use case specification and requirement specification for disruption management

Deliverable D13.1 provides a detailed description and analysis of the main use cases for disruption management within the context of railway infrastructures based on the high level description and requirements described in D10.1.

The use case analysis provided in this deliverable covers involved actors, pre-conditions and post-conditions, inputs, interactions for use case implementation, the exchanged data structures, and a table of the functional and non-functional requirements and are relevant to the following FP1-Motional Technical Enablers (TEs)  :

• TE 11—HMI for TMS based on User Experience (UX) Design and user input: The development of an HMI solution for the railway sector must consider UX design principles to reduce the workload imposed on operators when dealing with critical actions, decisions and alarms in control centers when managing disruptions and critical tasks.
• TE 13—Cooperative planning multi-actors within rail: Critical events and alarms occurring along a railway are not handled by a single operator but by many of them, who should be able to communicate effectively with each other and with other stakeholders, including emergency responders, to ensure that the incident is handled appropriately.
• TE 14—Integration of incident management and customer information, with IM and RU interaction and Decision Support for Disruption management (DSS) : Incident management in railway systems is a complex and challenging task that requires the skills and expertise of operators in control centers as well as many details and data to support the problem identification process, which calls for more integration of all the possible information sources.

The use cases described in D13.1 will be applied in the upcoming WP14 for the planned demonstrators as follows:

• Demo 10 – Collaborative DSS for efficient and effective disruption management: This demo is divided into three parts: first one showing how collaborative decisions can be supported by the decision support modules of TMS; the second part shows how a DSS can support the operators when performing complex procedures to reduce the workload and fatigue in critical scenarios while providing suggestions to optimize maintenance; and the last part deals with solving conflicts in rolling stock movements, minimizing the impact on the operator and passenger experience.
• Demo 11 – The TMS HMI solution based on User Experience (UX) Design and user input  will be tested in a simulated environment while handling complex disruption management events and will measure KPIs for situation awareness and mental workload.