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Welcome to the information pages of APTA’s Communications Sub Committee and the Technical Standards Working Group (TSWG) Feb 2012 update.
I am looking forward to meeting with you during the series of event and meetings that we have scheduled for this year and the first of these will be at the APTA Transit Tec conference being held in Fort Worth TX between March 20th and 22nd. The CSC/TSWG meeting will be at 10am on Monday 19th March so I look forward to seeing you there!
If you are unable to attend, fear not! We will have an opportunity to meet in April at the Rail Security event being held in Chicago on April 11/12. (Timings TBC) Watch this space!
For our European members we have a first. There will be a meeting of the CSC /TSWG (CCTv standards group) at the forthcoming IFSEC event in the UK during May (Date and venue TBA).
Finally, we’ll also be holding meetings at Rail Annual in June and of course APTA annual in October.
As you know over the past decade communications technology has been rapidly becoming
a key resource in our nation's transit systems. Initiatives in areas such as computer
based train control (CBTC), intelligent transport systems (ITS), security and surveillance
systems as well as advanced on-
These advances, however, have not been without their drawbacks. Issues such as obsolescence, incompatibility, cyber security, reliability and lack of basic technical resources have been the norm in transit because of the unique applications in our Industry.
In September 2005, the Communications Subcommittee was formed under Research and Technology to assist the transit industry in managing this key resource. As we enter the second decade of the 21st century our mission is a wide as ever and demand for ‘technical information’ unending. None the less the three main areas of our task Remains:
* Promote the appropriate use of technology in mission critical applications
* Reduce risk in adopting technologies in transit
* Ensure that key communications resources are available for mission critical
transit applications
If you are a technology professional, a transit professional, or other interested party; please come and join us. We'd love to hear from you or better still, join in one of forthcoming meetings. The details of which are contained in these information pages.
The next meeting will be at APTA annual in Fort Worth TX, where we’ll be discussing
new areas for the team to re-
I hope to welcome you to our next meeting.
Regards
Dave Gorshkov CEng FIET
Chair Communications Sub Committee and TSWG1 (CCTV and VCA Standards)
dg@apatstandards.org
You can also follow our various activities and messages via the Communications Sub Committee linkedin group