RSSB2750 - Review of the Uff-Cullen Recommendations related to train protection systems (T1169)
What the buyer wrote
Following two signal passed at danger (SPAD)-related accidents at Southall (1997) and Ladbroke Grove (1999), a joint report into train protection systems was published by Professor John Uff and the Right Honourable Lord Cullen in 2001 . The Uff-Cullen report recommended the roll out of automatic train protection, in which a system intervenes if the driver of a train is going too fast or will exceed the end of a movement authority. The train protection system envisaged to meet this recommendation was the European Train Control Systems (ETCS). It was recognised, however, that the roll out of this system was complex and expensive in comparison to the Train Protection and Warning System (TPWS)…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- RSSB2750 - Review of the Uff-Cullen Recommendations related to train protection systems (T1169)
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 18 Jan 2019
- Work ends
- 31 May 2019
Who the buyer named
Tanja Odinsen was the named contact on this notice.