Security of passengers and freight

The well-being and safety of passengers, and the safe and reliable transportation of freight is becoming increasingly important throughout the railway network.

Terrorist acts and their tragic consequences are not the only concern: vandalism, graffiti and menacing behaviour are not only unpleasant but also have a detrimental effect on people's perception of public transport.

Integrated security measures including state of the art surveillance systems with sophisticated image recognition algorithms are now becoming critical to an effective transport operation.

How we can help

Lloyds Register Rail has experience of helping transport companies to define and implement effective security technology systems. Our approach starts with the definition of the operational requirements which underpin the organisations security policy. We also have extensive experience in the technical specification, project management, testing and commissioning of systems including:

• State-of-art CCTV systems
• Integrated control systems
• CCTV transmission networks (fixed and wireless)
• Digital recording and data mangement for evidential purposes
• SCADA systems
• Control room design.

What are the benefits?

• Investing in reliable public safety and freight systems will lead to increased patronage and productivity, and improves system availability figures.
• Reducing crime not only benefits passengers but will also bring down operational costs associated with criminal damage.
• Our train borne solutions use a flexible approach allowing technology updates without major costly retrofitting in the future - a real lifecycle cost issue.

Recent projects

• Lloyd's Register Rail has specified CCTV systems for several rolling stock projects on behalf of a Train Operating Company in the Netherlands including contract management for the delivery of CCTV systems.
• We engineered a trial system to incorporate "intelligent functionality" into an existing CCTV system. This added a system that would stream signals to a central control room when unusual conditions were detected - allowing direct contact to be made with a passenger on a train over the PA system if needed.
• We specified the CCTV operational requirements for Phase 3 of the Manchester Metrolink in the UK, based on Police Scientific Development Branch standards, developed the system performance specification and reviewed tenders.
• We specified functional requirements to transfer a distributed 120 analogue CCTV camera scheme (fibre 'point to point' transmission) to an integrated communicatons network and are managing the planned migration and integration process.

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