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Systems Interface Committees
Purpose
SIC Governance and Membership
Issue Three of the SIC Protocol was approved by the RSSB Board on 11 December 2008 and came into force on 01 January 2009. The main changes between Issue Two and Issue Three are:
Senior industry figures have volunteered to chair the SICs, and have been formally appointed by the RSSB Board. Each of the following industry categories, together with RSSB, the Department for Transport and the Office of Rail Regulation is entitled to one member on each SIC.
In addition to being a member of each SIC, RSSB also provides a facilitation and procurement service to the SICs. SIC Aims and ObjectivesThe general remit for SICs to achieve their purpose is to:
For a specific interface issue, a SIC will typically determine solutions based on sound technical and economic evaluation and identify which is in the best interest of the industry as a whole. Some of these solutions may be implemented unilaterally where it is in the commercial interest of individual organisations to do so. Existing processes (such as vehicle or network change) will be used as far as possible to balance instances where the benefits and costs of a given action may not lie in equal measure with the same parties. Where such processes are unsuitable, the regulators may act to ensure that parties are appropriately incentivised to implement optimal system-wide solutions. Five SICs have been formed to address the primary industry interfaces.
Any general queries concerning SICs should be directed to Jon Taylor on 020 3142 5601 in the first instance.
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