SAFETY4RAILS
Project Overview
Data-based analysis for safety and security protection for detection, prevention, mitigation and response in trans-modal metro and railway networks
Railways and Metros are safe, efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly mass carriers, while they also become 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 delivered methods and systems to increase the safety and recovery of track-based inter-city railway and intra-city metro transportation, and to improve the handling of such events through a holistic approach. It addressed both cyber-only attacks (such as impact from WannaCry infections), physical-only attacks (such as the Madrid commuter trains bombing in 2004) and combined cyber-physical attacks, which is an important emerging scenario given the increase in the 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.
Intracom Telecom Participation
Intracom Telecom had the role of the technology provider of customised cyber-physical protection tools, such as WiBAS, UniMS, SISC2, symbIoTe etc.