MINUTES OF COMMITTEE MEETING

 

RAIL TRANSIT VEHICLE INTERFACE STANDARDS COMMITTEE

 

July 11-12, 2000

 

IEEE Headquarters - Piscataway NJ

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(NOTE: ATTACHMENTS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE WEBSITE VERSION OF THE MINUTES)

 

 

Welcome 

 

The committee was welcomed to IEEE by Judy Gorman, Managing Director  of the IEEE
Standards Association.

 

1. Attendance (See Attachment 1)

 

Note that a current list of members with addresses is provided as Attachment 2. Members should contact Patricia Gerdon of IEEE Standards (FAX 732 562-1571 or email  p.gerdon@ieee.org) with any corrections to this list. Please do not contact the Chair.

 

      Note:  Action Items assigned to committee members are  shown in bold italics.

 

 

2. Agenda (See Attachment 3)

 

 

3. Housekeeping

 

Minutes.  Minutes of the Rancho Cucamonga CA meeting (March 14-15, 2000) were approved by the committee without changes on motion by Lou Sanders seconded by Linda Sue Boehmer.

 

Next Meeting.  It was agreed that the next meeting will be held October 24-25, 2000 at Union Switch and Signal offcies in Pittsburgh, PA. The agenda will include second line by line review of WG10 Battery Physical Standards, as well as any loose ends from the recirculation ballot of IEEE P-1478 (Vehicle Environmental Requirements).

 

Internet. Our website is maintained by Tom Sullivan at:  http://www.tsd.org

Tom's site is directly linked to the IEEE site where password protected draft standards reside because of copyright concerns. The user name and password for accessing draft standards are "transit" and "railway". Working group leaders posting standards to the web should title them DS-P14XX.DOC  Email attachments to Tom for posting may now be sent in either Word 6.0/95 or Word 97.

 

We also have an IEEE email mailing list:

stds-railtransit@ieee.org

 

The current list of members on the list is shown in Attachment 4. If you are not yet on the list, please sign on using the simple instructions provided in Attachment 4. If you have an incorrect address on the list please "unsubscribe" and if necessary re"subscribe" according to the instructions. You are the only one who can remove the incorrect address! We tend to use the IEEE email list sparingly and only for situations where we must rapidly contact members so you will not be overly burdened with email messages if you subscribe.

 

IEEE Standards Process.  The most up to date list of training information for standards developers and information on the IEEE standards process is found at http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/ltpres.html  Presentations address Project Authorization Requests, Balloting, etc. A style template can be downloaded from http://standards.ieee.org/resources/spasystem/index/html

 

Progress Report by Chair.  Lou Sanders arranged an excellent article on our activities which was published in the June 12th edition of Passenger Transport,  which is the edition given to all attendees at the APTA Rapid Rail Conference held recently in Saint Louis. Chair McGean announced that at this time seven of our standards (IEEE 1473, 1474.1, 1475, 1476, 1477, 1482.1 and 1483)  have received final approvals and been published. In addition IEEE Standard 11,  Standard for Rotating Electric Machinery for Rail and Road Vehicles, with some help from our committee, was successfully revised and updated and has also been approved by RevCom.

 

Since the last meeting,  we have received authorization from the IEEE Standards Board to initiate four new standards activities. (P-1536, NiCad batteries, chaired by Alex Sinyak, P-1474.2, CBTC Graphical User Interface, chaired by Alan Rumsey, P-1570, Highway Rail Interface, chaired by Bill Petit, and P-16, Electrical/Electronic Control chaired by Jim Dietz.) With the successful balloting of IEEE 1478, we have essentially finished all eight standards activities initiated when the committee was formed in 1996. However, since that time, committee members have proposed and received IEEE approval to undertake an additional eight new standards activities, so our level of activity remains undiminished despite all of these published standards. The status of all standards activities are provided in Attachments 5 and 6.

 

 

4. Coordination

 

New APTA Standards Initiatives. (Report by Tom Peacock) Tom Peacock of APTA spoke to the committee about APTA's new standards initiatives. The PRESS standards are available on a CDROM and have succeeded in creating a government-industry partnership instead of one-sided government regulations. Nine courses on these standards have been developed and are available on the APTA website.  APTA is now moving into developing a similar approach for rail transit standards (LRT and rapid rail as opposed to just commuter rail as was done by PRESS). The work will be modeled after the PRESS activity. APTA has assembled the leaders of 20-25 transit agencies and received funding commitments from them of $25,000 annually. This provides an APTA standards budget of $500,000/year. Tom Peacock distributed copies of the APTA standards bylaws to our

committee members as well as an article describing the new initiative from the July 10th edition of Passenger Transport. Currently, APTA has five priority standards areas: Crashworthiness, Grade Crossings, Vehicle Maintenance and Inspection, Fixed Facility Maintenance and Inspection, and Highway Grade Crossing Safety. APTA will utilize Stan Canjea's committee for the crashworthiness. A kickoff meeting on the other standards work is expected to be held in the Fall. Safety is one reason for the APTA decision to become active in the rail transit standards area.  The NTSB is increasingly concerned about the adequacy of safety oversight in rail transit and is organizing a rail transit safety group.

 

APTA wishes to coordinate its activities with our IEEE work. Right now APTA does not qualify as an ANSI organization, and due to its makeup it probably could not. As a result they may form a separate standards organization. Despite the obvious success of our IEEE RTVISC, TCRP funding can not go on indefinitely since TCRP is intended to fund research activities. Therefore, means for sustaining our work over the long term are being considered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Until such means are developed, it is important to make sure that TCRP funding remains in place. A concern voiced by Lou Sanders is the Senate diversion of $3 million from the TCRP budget. APTA has a special section on its legislative affairs website where anyone interested can send a letter to Congress about this matter. Go to http://congress.nw.dc.us/apta or approach it directly from the APTA website if you are interested in helping. (See Attachment 7)

 

Bill Petit suggested a need for closer coordination between AAR/AREMA and rail transit standards efforts. He will email names to Tom McGean and Tom Peacock to put on the IEEE and APTA standards mailing lists.

 

Transit Standards Consortium. (Rick Mazur reporting) Arrangements for a cooperative agreement with APTA were not successful due to difficulties with TSC indebtedness. Discussions have been suspended until October and prospects do not look promising. Paul Jamieson has resigned as TSC board chair along with several rail-oriented board members.

 

LonMark Interoperability Association. (report by Tom Sullivan)  The group met June 10th, the day before our committee meeting at the nearby Sheraton Four Points Barcelo  hotel.  The discussion included progress on a new LonMark GPS Object, the RTVISC SNVT work being done with WG9, LonWorks SAE-J1708 interoperability, LonWorks over fiber on trains, and LonWorks-TCN interoperability. The annual LonWorks conference will be held in Orlando, Florida on October 17-19, 2000. Go to www.lonworld2000.com for further information. The LonMark website is www.lonmark.org.

 

OMG Website. Bob diSilvestro has organized a website to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of CORBA, DCOM, and the TCIP approach to message sets. The URL is www.ieee-omg.org  A user name and password are required which can be obtained from Bob diSilvestro at disilvestro_bob@adtranzna.com  At the next meeting, Denny Pasco will arrange to have  a 10-15 minute discussion/presentation on OMG for our members.

 

FRA Regulations and Positive Train Control. (Report by John LaForce and Bill Petit)) RSAC has two task forces at work on PTC, including one concerned with standards. Meetings have been held for the last several years, the latest June 27-28th  in New Orleans. FRA has a notice of proposed rulemaking which is undergoing internal review by RSAC. After that it will be released for public comment. (It will be 49 CFR part 236 Subpart H) The biggest change will be going from prescriptive testing to performance based regulations employing risk assessment criteria. The new rules will say any new system must be shown by risk assessment to be as safe as the system it is replacing. Complete minutes of RSAC meetings are on the Safetran website, www.safetran.com  Alan Rumsey noted this effort has added significance to our members because NYCT is adapting the FRA requirements even though they are not required by law to do so. These regulations could thus prove to be the US ground rules for not only PTC but also new CBTC systems.

 

ASME Developments. (Report by Clive Thornes)  Stan Canjea's ASME Standards Committee on Rail Transit Vehicles held its sixth meeting in Saint Louis after the APTA rapid rail meeting.  Comments on the second draft were reviewed. The heart of the standard is two tables of structural/crashworthiness requirements, one for trams or streetcars and the other for full blown LRV's.   Anyone wishing a copy of the draft should contact Joseph Pang of the ASME at  pangj@asme.org and ask for the RT-1 draft standard. The draft is also on the ASME website which is linked to ours at www.tsd.org  The committee intends its next meeting to be in Dallas during November where comments from the third draft will be reviewed. The committee is also going to prepare structural standards for rapid railcars, at the request of APTA. Keith Falk will chair this new standards working group.

 

APTA Rolling Stock Technical Forum (Formerly APTA Rolling Stock Committee). (Report by Lou Sanders). This group met during the APTA conference in Saint Louis last month. A new rail car roster is available. Contact Dave Phelps dphelps@apta.com if you wish a copy.

 

ITS/APTA Advanced Public Transit Systems Rail Subcommittee. (Report by Lou Sanders)  This group has been formed to identify ITS related development needs of the rail transit industry and further their development. It is headed by Tom Taylor of PB Systems (213 362 4769 FAX 213 362 3106, email taylorts@pbworld.com )  Or contact Lou Sanders of APTA (202 898 4086 FAX 202 898 4019, email lsanders@apta.com ) if you are interested. There is a growing recognition of the rail ITS interface. A Rail Stakeholders Forum is being instituted which will also be chaired by Tom Taylor.

 

 

5.      Other Business

 

Chris Jenks Return.  The Chair announced that Chris Jenks has returned to the TRB in a more responsible position and will once again be handling our TCRP G-4A project. The committee welcomes Chris back to the fold and thanks Chris Hedges for the fine job he did during his namesake's absence.

 

Information Dissemination.   All eight of our published standards (including IEEE 11) have been bundled into a Vehicular Technology Standards Subscription which it will be possible to purchase online through IEEE. This subscription gives you a license for online access to any of these standards at no extra charge for the period of one year including the right to download and print them for your own use. The license fee ranges from $150/year for a single user to $1500 a year for an entire "enterprise". Go to http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/olis/licenses/licenses.html to obtain a license.

 

In addition, Lou Sanders announced that he and Chris Jenks of TRB are arranging to purchase copies of all the  standards developed to date under the TCRP G-4 program and distribute them to transit agencies and committee members.

 

Protocol Implementation. The APTA Signal and Communications Committee, chaired by George Pristach, has agreed to sponsor an IEEE 1473 Protocol Implementation program for us. Chair McGean contacted members of the Consortium assembled for the FTA Joint Partnership Program to see if they would be interested in a completely industry funded project through APTA. Negotiations are now underway between the key participants to see if a viable project can be assembled. If interested in your organization participating in this effort please email Tom McGean at t.j.mcgean@ieee.org or call 757 789 5166. There may be  a unique window of opportunity right now to do something very worthwhile in this area.

 

Standard for Non-Safety Critical Train and Wayside Data Protocol.  Fred Woolsey discussed this proposed new standards activity. Attachment 8 provides the proposed title, purpose and scope. There was discussion over whether the activity  should be limited to the protocol or should also include data elements, and of the interface with WG2 and WG9. No Chair exists for the activity at this time, since Fred will be chairing the WG9 effort. It was agreed to table the decision on initiating  this new standards activity until the Pittsburgh meeting in October.

 

Standard for CBTC Wayside Environmental Requirements. Harold Gillen asked that discussion of this proposed new standards activity be postponed pending resolution of EMI issues associated with the Vehicle Environmental Standard. It was later decided to move all Vehicle EMI out of IEEE P1478 and into IEEE P 16. The proposal to form this Wayside Environmental standards  group will be taken up by the full committee in Pittsburgh during the October meeting.

         

Electronic Balloting.  The committee held considerable discussion of electronic balloting. Advantages centered on expediting the process and making it easier to assemble comments. Disadvantages were the difficulty of handling paper material members wished to cite to support  their ballot comments, and the fact that one member did not have access to email. After considerable discussion the committee voted to use electronic balloting as its standard method for all future ballots. Chuck Elms and Fred Perilstein voted negative.

 

WG Rosters Required for Liability Protection.  The chair announced that he needs to provide to the NesCom Administrator by September 1st the names of all members of working groups along with their company, phone, fax and email. This information is needed to be sure they are covered under the IEEE indemnification of volunteers involved in standards activities. To date information has been received from Working Groups 5, 6, 8, 9, 13 and 14.  Other WG chairs are asked to comply by emailing the information to Tom McGean at t.j.mcgean@ieee.org.  

 

 

6.       Working Group Reports

(To facilitate followup by working group leaders activities have been organized by working   group even though the agenda did not follow this approach  at the actual meeting).

 

Definitions. Paul Jamieson Chair. (No report at this meeting) A policy statement drafted by the Chair to reflect the sense of the committee on definitions is given below:

 

It is committee policy to use IEEE Dictionary definitions if at all possible. Further, once any definition has been balloted and accepted for use in any standard sponsored by the IEEE Rail Transit Vehicle Interface Standards Committee it shall be binding for all other standards sponsored by the committee unless it can be shown to be clearly inappropriate. If neither the IEEE Dictionary nor a RTVISC balloted standard provides a suitable definition, then the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Lexicon should be consulted for a suitable definition.. Next, standards sponsored by the ASME Rail Transit Standards Committee should be consulted. Definitions which have been  balloted and accepted for any standard sponsored by the ASME Rail Transit Standards Committee shall be also binding for all IEEE RTVISC standards unless there is a different existing IEEE definition or they  can be shown to be clearly inapplicable.  If none of these sources produce a suitable definition,  the  TRB Glossary should be consulted .  It should be noted that  ASME and  TRB Glossary definitions are not presently IEEE definitions. Thus, they should be provided in the definitions section of the IEEE standard so they can be balloted and adopted as an IEEE definition. Only when all of the above approaches has failed should a working group coin its own original definition. Since it is intended that all working groups of both IEEE RTVISC and ASME RTSC use common definitions,  Working group chairs should be careful when reviewing standards prepared by other working groups, to be sure the other group's definitions will be suitable for their standard also. Paul Jamieson chairs the Definitions working group for both the IEEE RTVISC and the ASME RTSC and maintains a database with all definitions which can be downloaded from our website at  www.tsd.org.

 

WG1 (P1473) Communications Protocols on Trains, Bob Anderson Chair. (No report at this meeting) The WG1 standard IEEE 1473 has been published. Efforts towards establishing a 1473 implementation are discussed under Other Business above.

 

WG2 (P1474.1) Communications Based Train Control, Alan Rumsey, Chair  The P1474.1 standard has been published. New activities include the following:

 

1) The Graphical User Interface standards activity has been approved by the IEEE Standards Board and is now underway as IEEE P-1474.2.  The first working group meeting was held on April 27th in Pittsburgh. 19 persons attended.

2) Harold Gillen has agreed to head a new effort to define Wayside Environmental Requirements. He is developing a purpose, scope and title for this activity.

3) The existing IEEE Std. 1474.1-1999 will be updated in the future to include expansion of the functional requirements associated with highway grade crossings. Vic Grapone has agreed to head this effort. WG2 would also like to include performance and functional requirements for train operations without crews.

 

The next meeting of WG2 will be July 27, 2000 at New Jersey Transit headquarters at 1 Penn Plaza in Newark, 9th floor Boardroom. The agenda will include discussion of new CBTC standards activities and launching of the 1474.2 Graphical User Interface effort with discussions of the interface at various existing transit agencies and review of Draft 1.0.

             

WG3 (P1482.1) Rail Vehicle Event Recorder, Linda Sue Boehmer, Chair.  The Event Recorder standard has been published under the leadership of Linda Sue Boehmer. The new FRA Event Recorder regulations do not acknowledge IEEE 1482.1. The draft NPRM is provided as Attachment 9.  The Chair was asked to send a comment on behalf of the committee to the NPRM for the FRA regulations advising of the IEEE standard in this area and the need to harmonize the regulations with some of its provisions.

 

WG3 (P1482) Rail Vehicle Monitoring and Diagnostic Systems, Rob McHugh, Chair  (Report by Tom McGean and Linda Sue Boehmer) It has been decided to reactivate the maintenance and diagnostics effort, which was suspended while the Event Recorder standard was being developed.  Linda Sue Boehmer will not be able to lead the Maintenance and Diagnostics effort. As a result, the chair has appointed Rob McHugh to lead this effort. Linda Sue provided the Chair with resource information to be given to Rob including a roster and the latest draft of the Maintenance and Diagnostics standard.

 

WG4 (P1483) Safety Standards for Software Systems, Jim Hoelscher, Chair.  (No report  at this meeting) The chair advised that this standard has been approved by the IEEE and published as IEEE 1483-2000. The committee congratulated Jim Hoelscher and his Working Group for an outstanding job.

 

WG5 (P1475) VOBC/Propulsion Controller/Motor/Brake, Dave Phelps, Chair. (No report at this meeting) The WG5 standard IEEE 1475 has been published. WG5 is now helping WG9 with identifying propulsion, braking and master control interface data elements.

 

WG6 (P1476) Auxiliary Power Systems, Claude Gabriel, Chair This standard has been approved by the IEEE and published as IEEE 1476-2000. The committee congratulated Claude Gabriel and his Working Group for an outstanding job.  Claude is now helping Alex Sinyak with the NiCad battery standard which grew out of his working group's work.

 

WG7 P1477) Vehicle Passenger Information Standards, Lance Cooper, Chair  (No report at this meeting) The standard has been published as an IEEE standard.

 

WG8 (P1478) Environmental Standards for Rail Transit Equipment, Chuck Elms, Chair. Negative and affirmative comments from the recent successful ballot were all addressed and resolved at this meeting.

 

·        The committee voted that EMI issues should be deleted from the IEEE P-1478 standard and made part of the IEEE P-16 standard being developed by Jim Dietz. This was because the issues were too complex to be resolved readily, and because the IEEE 16 scope and working group makeup was better suited for the subject matter, especially in view of the decision by the committee at its prior meeting to move dielectric requirements from IEEE P1478 to IEEE P-16. Jim Dietz accepted this assignment on behalf of his working group. Chuck Elms was actioned to put in the introduction to IEEE P-1478 that EMI is not covered and refer to IEEE P-16.

 

·        There was significant discussion of how to handle DoD standards which are no longer being maintained, and which are cited as key elements of IEEE P-1478. Noelle Humenick, IEEE Project Editor, came down to advise the committee in this area. It was decided that the cited material, which is public domain, will be included as an informative annex to the standard unless its size makes that impractical, in which case a way will be sought to make it a bibliographic entry instead of a reference.

 

Negative Ballots were resolved as followed:

 

Bob Anderson:  Mr. Anderson agreed to withdraw his negative providing the following words are added to Section 4. "Testing methods identified in this standard are solely intended to unambiguously define the environmental requirements. This standard does not impose any requirements concerning whether or how many times tests are to be conducted to verify conformance to these environmental requirements. However, in the event it is desired to verify conformance to this standard, testing shall be per the methods identified in this section."  The committee agreed that these words clarify the intent of the committee and do not constitute a substantive change in the standard.

 

Jim Dietz:  Mr. Dietz negative concerning 4.1.2 was resolved by permitting the authority having jurisdiction to permit lower maximum operating temperatures in specific situations. An asterisk and footnote will be added to Table 1 to that effect. This is a substantive change and will be so indicated in the recircualtion ballot of IEEE P-1478.

 

After discussion with the group, Mr. Dietz agreed to change his comment with regard to Condition E2 Shock in Table 1 from a negative comment to an affirmative comment.

 

Bill Gallagher and Abe Kanner:  After discussion, the committee did not accept the Kanner/Gallagher request to change the E4 Vehicle Interior operating Temperature from -40C to -20C and Bill Gallagher, speaking for himself and Abe Kanner, did not wish to change their position. Therefore this will be identified as an unresolved negative in the recirculation ballot with the Kanner/Gallagher and committee positions documented for vote. Kanner and Gallagher should provide any explanatory material they wish included with the vote to the Chair no later than July 20th, 2000.

 

Jim Hoelscher:  Hoelscher's negative comments about Sections 4.2.2 and 4.2.3 were resolved by deleting snowfall and flooding requirements and adding a note advising that they are not specified in the standard. His negative comment about ultraviolet radiation in Section 4.4 was resolved by changing the requirement from a "shall" to a "should". His negative comment about vibration limits in Table 1 was resolved by the committee finding it persuasive and accepting the proposed changes. All of these changes are substantive and will be so noted in the recirculation ballot.

 

Paul Jamieson:  All of Mr. Jamieson's comments were discussed by the group. Rick Mazur, representing Paul, indicated he believed the actions taken would resolve all of Paul's issues. It was agreed to delete Section 4.3 (11) Electrostatic Discharge and move this material to IEEE P-16. This is a substantive change and will be so noted in the recirculation. On behalf of Paul, Rick withdrew the concern about site specific ambient conditions  subject to some editorial changes agreed to by the group. Paul advised the Chair that he accepted the addition of the words noted with respect to Bob Anderson's negative as also handling his concerns about testing. With regard to DoD tests, it was agreed the tests would be put in an informative annex unless prohibitively voluminous.  The two comments on 4.1.3 (8) Ambient Relative Humidity were withdrawn.  Comments on 4.1.4, sinusoidal vibration tests and 4.1.5 Mechanical Shock were resolved with alternative wording changes. With regard to 4.1.6.5, Contaminants, requirements for high pressure water were changed to a recommendation.

 

Tom Sullivan:  Based on the decision to place EMI into IEEE P-16, Mr. Sullivan withdrew his negative comment about the need for EMI in IEEE P-1478.

 

Affirmative comments were also discussed by the committee. Several substantive changes to the standard resulted from affirmative comments. In response to an affirmative comment by Bill Petit, the committee agreed to add a requirement for time from startup for the equipment to be functional, and also a soak time requirement. This is a substantive change and will be so noted in the recirculation ballot. Also based on Bob Heggestad's comment it was agreed to change the lower Relative Humidity limit to 10% from 0%, since it is hard to test to 0%. Finally, revised wording for the vibration test sweep was developed based on recommendations of Jim Dietz and others.

 

Tom McGean will arrange a recirculation ballot identifying all substantive changes indicated above. Chuck Elms will prepare a final draft of the standard for the recirculation ballot. If it has not been to the IEEE Editors for review, it will be sent to them before the recirculation ballot is conducted.

 

Attachment 10 is the modified draft of IEEE P-1478 which emerged after resolution of affirmative and negative comments. Attachment 11 summarizes disposition of all comments.

 

WG9 Transit Communications Interface Profiles for Rail Transit Systems, Fred Woolsey.  Because of changes in his work assignments, Rob McHugh has asked to take over the resurrected 1482 Maintenance and Diagnostics effort and resign as chair of WG9. The Chair has accordingly appointed him to that slot and appointed Fred Woolsey to take over as chair of WG9. Fred will take over at the forthcoming WG9 meeting to be held July 21st at Booz Allen's offices in Washington DC.  The group has been developing a set of critical data elements for basic operating unit interoperability. The schedule is to have an Excel database of these elements available for discussion at the Washington meeting.

 

 WG10 Battery Standard, Stanley Kwa, Chair.  A line by line review of the draft standard was conducted at the Rancho Cucamonga meeting. The following changes were suggested by the committee

 

1)      Either cite IEC 60623 or reproduce material and footnote but do not mix the two approaches.

2)      Explain what is meant by "uncoding".

3)      See if Table 1 can be refined and pared back to fewer options.

4)      The Committee discussed whether this should be a recommended practice rather than a standard and decided this decision should be deferred until Table 1 is revised and more insight is available on the kind of standard being generated.

5)      It should be noted in Figure 1 that the blocks are cells. It should also note this is a 'Top View".

6)      With regard to Section 4.3, the working group was asked to review the PRESS battery standard for its recommendations on hardware.

7)      The committee asked the working group to try to standardize on battery posts/connections or at least have suggested or recommended practices in this area. Some progress on the interface of the battery with the car cable terminals is needed.

8)      The committee suggested Sections 5.0 and 5.1 be deleted.

9)      The committee suggested that section 6 be coordinated with Alex Sinyak's  WG13. Also the committee asked the working group to consider the IEEE 1475 experience placing 'who does what' material in an informative annex. It might be possible to put explanatory words in the introduction and concrete recommendations in an informative annex. If specific sizing details are needed they should remain in Section 6.0.

10)  In Section 7.0, if there are design criteria for battery boxes they should be cited. State that all batteries shall be located in a single compartment. Clean out the "fluff" in this section.

11)  Whether to standardize the tray arrangement should be decided by the working group based on the final form of Table 1.

12)  Change "watertight cover" to "flash proof cover" and check NEMA to see if there is an appropriate enclosure reference.

13)  For 7.1, Dave Phelps will advise Stan Kwa on NFPA 130 words concerning batteries.

14)  Move words about aluminum to paragraph 3 of 7.0.

15)  For 7.2, delete requirement for a filter due to danger of hydrogen buildup.

16)  Combine second sentence of 7.1 with 7.3 and change 7.3 title to "Restraint". Then combine this section with 7.4.

 

 The working group is revising the standard and plans to resubmit it for line by line review at the next meeting to be held in Pittsburgh during October.

 

WG11  Electrical/Electronic Control Standard, Jim Dietz Chair. The PAR has been approved by IEEE. Five meetings have been held to date. A rough draft has been prepared and is on our website. The next meeting is planned for August 15th at APTA, and the meeting after that for October 11th at STV in Philadelphia. Part of what is being done is codifying APTA PRESS standards using the IEEE consensus process. To get involved contact Jim Dietz at 215 542 0700, FAX 215 542 7676 email jdietz@ltk.com. IEEE P-16 has accepted responsibility for EMI requirements from IEEE P-1478.

 

WG12  Software Documentation Standard , Paul Jamieson, Chair. (Report by Rick Mazur) The PAR has been approved and a draft is underway. The 7th meeting will be held at WABCO September 12-13, 2000.

 

WG13  NiCad Battery Performance Standard, Alex Sinyak, Chair. The kickoff meeting was held at LTK on October 26th, 1999 to draft the purpose and scope. The full committee reviewed the title, purpose and scope on March 14th and recommended few changes. On June 21st, the IEEE Standards Board approved the project. The second meeting was held June 6th at Bombardier in Bensalem, PA. The group decided to use the IEEE Stationary NiCad battery standard (IEEE Std 1115) as a point of departure, but make sure that railroad specific requirements are included. Work has begun on recommendations for defining battery loads and determining battery size. At the next meeting, to be held this September, review of the first sections of the draft standard will begin.

 

WG14  Highway Rail Intersection, Bill Petit, Chair.  The IEEE Standards Board has approved this standards effort. The kickoff meeting was held in Annapolis, an outline for the standard approved and initial assignments made. FRA has asked that WG14 undertake this effort for the ITS program. The next meeting will be September 19th at Safetran Systems in California.

 

7.      Special Thanks

 

Special thanks are due to Judy Gorman and the IEEE Standards Association for providing the excellent meeting facilities and audio visual equipment, making the hotel arrangements, assisting with restaurant arrangements, and providing outstanding support throughout the meeting. In particular we would like to thank Tricia Gerdon and Tina Alston of the IEEE staff for coordinating and arranging everything.

 

8.  Adjournment

 

The meeting was adjourned at 4M on July 12th, 2000.