This presentation will provide a case study on how the California High-Speed Rail System (CHSRS) is preparing for system certification throughout the systems development life cycle, demonstrating to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) that the system will be safe, secure, and ready to operate.
As established in prior INCOSE papers and presentations, CHSRS is multi-billion-dollar program delivered in several independently designed and constructed civil works, track and systems, trainsets, train operator and other projects, exhibiting the typical system of systems (SoS) challenges. Currently, CHSRS is under construction along approximately 119 miles with three active civil works contracts designing and building over 225 structures along the future CHSRS guideway, with more contracts planned to be released soon.
The presentation will address from an SoS perspective the system certification challenges faced, and the SoS engineering activities performed, and summarizes the achieved outcomes and conclusions as of today. Insights will be provided into the tracking of CHSRS program (SoS) requirements throughout the individual project life cycles (constituent systems), and by providing safety and security requirement examples, will describe how digital threads are used to the hundreds and thousands of the design, construction, and inspection and testing artifacts to make the successful case that the CHSRS can be certified for safe and secure passenger operation.