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Systems Interface Committees Purpose SIC Governance and Membership
Participants also attend, representing the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), Department for Transport and RSSB.
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. The SICs are working with RSSB to identify R&D projects for the future that will bring measurable benefits to the industry. Five SICs have been formed to address the primary industry interfaces.
SIC Seminar – 28 March 2007 On 28 March the Institution of Mechanical Engineers hosted a seminar day called ‘Optimising the Future Railway – the work of the Systems Interface Committees’ which aimed to promote the current work of the Systems Interface Committees (SICs) and elaborate on how this ties into the themes emerging from the Technical Strategy. To view the SIC bulletin on the seminar, please click the link. Any general queries concerning SICs should be directed to Adam Milligan (020 7904 7629) in the first instance. |