Introduction
In order to meet the innovation ability construction needs for urban rail transit, and improve the technical support for the safety of urban rail transit system, after approved by National Development and Reform Commission (No. 2016-583 document of the high-tech dept. of NDRC), and led by SinoRail Information Engineering Group, the National Engineering Laboratory for the Safety Technology of Urban Rail Transit System was jointly established by cooperating with Shenzhen Metro, Southwest Jiaotong University, Shenzhen YD Electronics Information Co., Ltd., and Sinorail Information Hongyuan (Beijing) Software Technology Co., Ltd. in an collaborative innovation mode of “Industry, Education, Research, Application”.
The National Engineering Laboratory for the Safety Technology of Urban Rail Transit System is the first national science and technology innovation platform taking system safety as the goal that planned and constructed by our country in the 13th Five-year (2016-2020). Facing the severe challenges of complex technical equipment, complex time and space distribution, and complex scenario displacement, this laboratory explores mapping urban rail transit physical entity system to network virtual space by utilizing “Software-defined” new generation of information technology, and reconstructs the processes of manufacturing and design, test and verification, operation and management, maintenance and service, etc., to form proactive safety methods and technologies for urban rail transit system.
This laboratory tightly combines with the long-term development and the realistic needs of the national urban rail transit, it insists on the research concept of “carrying out application basic theory research based on background, forming key technologies by combining with realistic needs”, and keeps the guiding ideology of “pursuing original research ability, technological breakthroughs, and industrialization of achievements”, it devotes to the safety technology of urban rail transit system, and by focusing on safety detection, proactive maintenance, operation management, emergency security, safety evaluation, and other aspects of urban rail transit, it carries out research on the innovative application basic theory and fundamental works in this field. A specialized technology system with “Six sub-systems”, “Three platforms” and “Four systems” will be established on the layout environment of the “Three places, four sites” in Beijing, Shenzhen and Chengdu, so as to form core technologies and equipment system that have our own intellectual property right and be suitable for our country’s conditions for urban rail transit system safety, and establish an international first-class research base for carrying out research on application basic theory and fundamental works in urban rail transit area, and thus provide a platform for the original innovation, integrated innovation, technology introduction, absorption and re-innovation, and high level talent cultivation of the urban rail transit field of our country.
Organization Structure
Laboratory director responsibility system is implemented in this laboratory, under the supervision of council leaders and technical committee. Four research sites were established on four locations:
Technical Committee
Honorary director: He Huawu
China Railway Corporation Chief engineer
Chinese Academy of Engineering Academician
Director: Shen Changxiang (pending)
Advisory Committee for State Informatization Chairman of the Committee
Chinese Academy of Engineering Academician
Committee members:
Qian QingquanAcademician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, professor of Southwest Jiaotong University
Liu YoumeiAcademician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, CRRC Corporation Limited
Fu ZhihuanAcademician of Chinese Academy of Engineering
Sun YongfuAcademician of Chinese Academy of Engineering
Du XinyanCommittee member of China Association of Metros
Chen XiangshengChief engineer of Shenzhen Metro Group Co., Ltd.
Zhu JianmeiVice-chancellor of Southwest Jiaotong University
Zhang YouchunDirector of the People’s Liberation Army Strategic and Technical Achievement Exchange Center
Ni XianpingDirector of Hongdu Aviation Industry Co., Ltd.
Meng DanDirector of the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Du LianFormer deputy director of the Advisory Committee for State Informatization and State information center
He HuakangVice president of China Information Industry Association
Han AizhengNational Engineering Laboratory for the Information Security of Industry Control System, The 6th Research Institute of China Electronics Corporation
Li TianruiProfessor of Southwest Jiaotong University
Wang ChanglinProfessor of Southwest Jiaotong University
Yu BoExecutive deputy general manager of Chengdu Metro
Luo JianzhongExpert of the Advisory Committee for State Informatization, professorate senior engineer of National Development and Reform Commission
Gao ShibinDean of Southwest Jiaotong University
Zhang WeihuaDirector of Southwest Jiaotong University
Li ShaoqianProfessor of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, director of the National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Communications
Research Direction
The National Engineering Laboratory for the Safety Technology of Urban Rail Transit System focuses on the tasks of system safety design, train-railway-catenary status real-time acquisition, train operation safety evaluation, full-information networked train operation safety protection, operation safety decision-making, emergency rescue decision-making and disposal, massive passenger flow emergency evacuation simulation, integrated emergency communication, RAMS protection based on dynamic monitoring of full life cycle, etc., to seek for breakthroughs in technology, it builds international first-class technology research and development facilities for safety evaluation, safety control and maintenance, operation safety protection, etc., it constructs the system of technology, standards, equipment and integration capability with the characteristics of “beyond the limits” and “strategic highland”, so as to protect the safety operation of urban rail transit system.
Specific research direction:
Safety detection, safety control and maintenance decision-making technologies for tracks, bridges, tunnels, and other railway line projects
Comprehensive detection and safety control technologies for communication signal systems of on-board signals, train-to-ground communication, ground signals, etc.
Safety detection, safety control and maintenance decision-making technologies for rolling stock systems of traction, braking, running, etc.
Safety detection, safety control and maintenance decision-making technologies for electromechanical systems for automatic ticket validation, screen door, etc.
Passenger flow safety detection and abnormal event recognition, passenger flow emergency evacuation simulation, passenger flow deep information mining and forecast
Train running safety monitoring, passenger abnormal behavior early-warning and information dissemination technologies
Abnormal environment safety early-warning, emergency disposal, emergency rescue, and through perception technologies
Safety evaluation technology for the RAMS of the full life cycle of various sub-systems of urban rail transit
Industrial Services
The National Engineering Laboratory for the Safety Technology of Urban Rail Transit System is the most effective way to realize the connection, coupling, and deep integration of the upstream and downstream of the whole industrial ecological chain, it is a cooperative system that forms complementary advantages and cooperative development, it is also a technical innovation, scientific experiment and talent cultivation base and an international exchange center for our country’s urban rail transit in system safety field. Relying on the good infrastructure and strong technical foundation of the leading and co-construction units, and their advantages of abundant technology and talent resources, the laboratory is developing rapidly towards an independent road, and becomes domestic advanced level and international top-ranking level in rail transit system safety field.
Scope for industrial services of this laboratory mainly includes:
Organize technical exchange activities and meetings
Organize technical exchange activities for domestic and international urban rail transit, hold relevant technical discussion meetings, research and investigation activities; develop friendly exchanges with domestic and international technical innovation teams and science and technology workers; organize domestic and international meetings, lectures, investigation activities and training related to urban rail transit technologies, organize exhibitions based on technology development needs.
Detection, inspection and safety certification services
On the basis of the combination of voluntary certification and compulsory certification, and from the two aspects of “pre-station online projects” and “post-station offline projects” of the urban rail transit industry, to provide safety detection, inspection, assessment and certification services for those operation safety and public safety involved key equipment and critical components of the trains, signals, railway lines, etc.
R&D and industrialization of core technology and products
Focus on the needs of safety protection for urban rail transit, to carry out research and development for new technology, new products, new materials and new processes, break through the restrictions in key technology, accelerate the transformation and industrialization of technological achievements, to provide safety protection technology and relative equipment for the construction and operation of urban rail transit.
Key technology consultation services
In view of the corresponding system safety protection technology, standards, specifications, and product systems for urban rail transit system in recent years still need to be improved, and considering that the multiple factors in application scenarios, control and management, also on the basis of guaranteeing the high availability of the system and the continuity of the business, to provide related technical consultation services for the safety protection of urban rail transit system.
Talent Cultivation
At present, the laboratory has organized a high-level scientific research team with interdisciplinary advantage, reasonable structure, and the characteristics of hard working, united, cooperated and innovation-oriented, the team has the abilities of application basic theory innovation and making breakthroughs in core technology. The laboratory brought together a group of young and middle-aged excellent technical talents, such as national academicians, national project survey and design experts, experts from the Recruitment Program of Global Experts, scholars from the Cheung Kong Scholar Program, winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and other national high-end talents, it has important influence in the field of urban rail transit system safety at home and abroad, and has laid a good foundation of talents and team for sustainable development of the laboratory.
