Why Do I Need a ConOps in a CBTC Application?
When some transit agencies being down the path of deploying a CBTC solution, they assume their engineers understand their operational requirements and begin writing a technical specification.
This assumption is wrong.
Frontline personnel (such as train driver or maintenance personnel) understand the daily operational needs of the Transit Agency because they operate the system day in and day out
Transit agencies must extract the needs and priorities of these frontline personnel and this is the primary objective of a ConOps.
The impact of not creating a ConOps is:
- Missing functionality
- Missing functionality will surface at the end of the project when it's too late
- Increased cost to implement missing functionality
- CBTC will operate less than expected
Finally, a ConOps is not an engineering document. It's a document written for a lay person who can understand what the transit agency needs operationally.
In order to understand the type of CBTC appropriate for your property, a ConOps is an essential tool.
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Senior Manager, Systems Engineering
6 年Good point that the ConOps is NOT an engineering document. It is a translational document that links the desired service capability to a future system solution. It is essential as the basis for defining a complete and coherent set of business requirements.
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6 年Most Greenfield CBTC systems are moving to GOA4 now, in the first instance, where drivers are rendered not relevant, except for some minor degraded working scenarios. Maintenance does not form part of Operations and I question if it should be part of a ConOps