The Society's Annual General Meeting will be followed by a talk on Recent events in aviation and what we can learn from them when developing, deploying and using vital systems.
This talk will reflect on the accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 737 Max, and how it reads across into the way that vital railway systems are conceptualised, developed, deployed and used. It will look at the organisational, technical and user-related factors and seek to engage the audience on how we as an industry can learn from these unfortunate events.
Tim Whitcher is a Technical Director in AtkinsRéalis. He has more than 15 years’ experience across both the supplier and client sides of signalling and train control and has deployed mission and safety critical systems on light rail, metro, mainline and heavy haul railways around the world. Due to his focus on complex systems, and ability to ask lots of questions, Tim often gets pulled in as a troubleshooter or integration specialist and has been fortunate enough to work on a range of projects. This experience includes deploying DTG-R on the Victoria Line for Westinghouse/Invensys, TBTC on JNUP and the ATC Systems Readiness project for Thales, a Level 3 moving block system in Australia and helping pave the way for high speed ETCS Level 2 on HS2. Tim is currently supporting New York MTA with the development of the strategy and specification for Work Train fitment and how to manage the integration of this diverse fleet into the operational railway.
Anjay Raj is a Technical Director in AtkinsRéalis who runs the Systems Integration Practice within their Rail Consulting business. Anjay's career spans 17 years having started as a graduate trainee in Metronet before he continued his career within LU in Project Engineering capacities on various projects as part of SUP and then 4LM. He led the 4LM programme engineering team through the enabling works and CBTC commissionings on the Circle, Hammersmith & City, District and Metropolitan Lines, before he then joined AtkinsRéalis where he has been working on international CBTC assignments in USA and more recently on ETCS on the East Coast Mainline. His experience centres around the delivery of line upgrades with a signalling systems bias, and he is passionate about collaborative working to deliver safe and high-performing railway system solutions.