Case Study: A Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Framework for Characterising Transportation Systems Over the Full Life Cycle

Abstract

Development of transport infrastructure has significant challenges including acquisition lag, phased evolution, multiple disparate stakeholders and environment‐specific issues. The Asset Standards Authority (ASA) at TfNSW is introducing MBSE to address these challenges. Instrumental to the introduction is the development of a framework that structures the available data and provides guidance and traceability between the data sets. This framework combines the enterprise‐level drivers with the lower level drivers such as standards to outline a generic conceptual design for a transport system. This conceptual design is then used to guide future system development. The outcome is future project information based on greater, enduring understanding of the transport system.

Development of a Sharing Concept for Industrial Compost Turners Using Model-Based Systems Engineering, under Consideration of Technical and Logistical Aspects

“…Of particular interest is [40], which investigates a model-driven approach to integrating simulation and optimisation methods by exchanging system designs. Furthermore, it is worth mentioning that [41] uses MBSE to achieve a greater enduring understanding of transport systems. Although the focus of the aforementioned research works varies, they all use an MBSE approach in the logistics field to investigate complex systems.…”

Model‐based systems engineering approaches to chemicals and materials manufacturing

“…This supports and formalizes activities such as requirements specification, trade space analysis, design, system analysis, verification, and validation. 31 SE applications span across diverse industry sectors, including: aerospace and avionics, [32][33][34][35][36] automotive engineering, [37][38][39] biochemical engineering, [40][41][42] civil engineering and transportation, 43,44 cybersecurity, 45,46 defense, [47][48][49] disaster management, [50][51][52] energy grids, [53][54][55] product manufacturing, [56][57][58] chemical engineering, [59][60][61][62][63] and nuclear engineering. 64,65 However, industries like aerospace, energy, and automotive integrate SE practices comparatively more than industries like consumer electronics, healthcare, and construction.…”

Development of a Model to Gauge Second‐order Effects of Train Component Upgrades

“…Show how SysML diagrams can be developed and used as visual guides both for understanding small system structures and for indicating what data is needed to support the direct simulation model as well as some simple re-use supporting steps to make their use more time effective and also some minor demonstration of re-use in building diagrams to make their use more attractive to users; 3. Demonstrate how the low level model can be emplaced within a model of the larger ST heavy rail context, showing the interactions between larger scale components across the operations; Demonstrate how this level of SysML modelling can be embedded in the overall Heavy Rail Architecture Framework which is being developed for Transport for NSW (Scott et al, 2016).…”