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1 Oct 2020Start
30 Sept 2022End

SAFETY4RAILS

Data-based analysis for SAFETY and security protection, FOR detection, prevention, mitigation and response in trans-modal metro and RAILway networkS

Status: CompletedDuration: 23 months
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Project description

SAFETY4RAILS is a EU funded project in the framework of H2020 SU-INFRA01 which started on 1 October 2020 for 2 years.

Railways and Metros are safe, efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly mass carriers, and they are becoming even more important means of transportation given the need to address climate change.

However, being such critical infrastructures turns metro and railway operators as well as related intermodal transport operators into attractive targets for cyber and/or physical attacks.

The SAFETY4RAILS project will deliver methods and systems to increase the safety and recovery of track-based inter-city railway and intra-city metro transportation.

It addresses both cyber-only attacks (such as impact from WannaCry infections), physical-only attacks (such as the Madrid commuter trains bombing in 2014) and combined cyber-physical attacks, which an important emerging scenario are given increasing IoT infrastructure integration.

When an incident occurs during heavy usage, metro and railway operators have to consider many aspects to ensure passenger safety and security. SAFETY4RAILS will improve the handling of such events through a holistic approach.

Project objectives

The goal of this project is to increase resilience against combined cyber-physical threats including natural hazards to railway infrastructure.

Threat assessment

  • Identification of new threats
  • Detection of new threats

Risk and crisis management improvement

  • Forecast and management of new threats
  • Knowlegde sharing with stakeholders
  • Impact of evolving threats

Improvement of resilience and security

  • Saving response time with decision support
  • Cost effective technological measures
  • Real-time management resilience
  • Multi-modal infrastructure approach

Practitioners and exploitation

  • User training with SAFETY4RAILS components
  • Demonstrating S4RIS operational performance
  • Exploiting S4RIS results

Project structure

WP1 Project Management WP2 Requirements, specification and architecture of SAFETY4RAILS framewor, CEIS WP3 Development of a multilingual risk assessment tool for combined cyber-physical threats in S4RIS, STAM WP4 Monitoring Methods for S4RIS - Detection, Forecasting, Response and Recovery, IC WP5 Simulation methods for S4RIS - Prevention, Preparedness and Risk Mitigation, Fraunhofer WP6 Implementation of SAFETY4RAILS Information System (S4RIS), UNEW WP7 Policy planning and investment measures of prevention-detection-response-mitigation, RMIT WP8 Simulation Exercises and Evaluations in Operational Environments, UIC WP9 Ethics, Legal, Privacy and Societal Aspects, UREAD WP10 Communication, Dissemination, Exploitation and Training Activities, EOS