Cyber Security in Transport

John Walker, IETs Automotive & Road Transport Systems TPN

John is a member of the Executive Team of the IET’s Automotive and Road Transport Technical and Professional Network, and of its Berkshire Network; he has organised and chaired international seminars on Road Pricing and on Managed Motorways for the IET.

John is the editor of three books: “Mobile Information Systems” (1990) and “Advances in Mobile Information Systems” (1998), both published by Artech House, and "Road Pricing: Technologies, economics and acceptability" published by the IET in February 2018. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IET book Series on “Transportation”. John is currently an independent consultant, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Transportation Research Group at Southampton University, and Honorary Secretary of the Road User Charging Interest Group of ITS(UK).

His professional interests have included solid state physics, software engineering, artificial intelligence, and mobile communications, but are now centered on Intelligent Transport Systems, especially road pricing and congestion charging.

David Ward, Horiba-MIRA

One of the big topics in road transport now is the move towards self-driving cars – known as “autonomous” vehicles.
Driving support and autonomy are often touted as improving efficiency and safety of road transport, however they do bring their own unique safety concerns. One area of interest is the “functional safety” of such systems. Specifically, in automotive, it is concerned with helping avoid the incorrect functioning of an electronic system that could impact on the overall safety of the vehicle.

As functional safety will play a large part in ensuring robust autonomous systems, standards such as ISO 26262 will need to address autonomy.

In summary, we are on the road to making fully autonomous vehicles a reality, and while ISO 26262 sets out the basis on which such systems will be developed, there is more work to do to extend its concepts to deal with such vehicles’ unique safety requirements.

Michele Fiorini, Project Engineering Manager for Leonardo s.p.a. in Rome, Italy

Global shipping and the movement of goods by sea have seen substantial changes during the last decades, in terms of both the sheer number and dimensions of ships in an increasingly interconnected global economy. Drone ships are upon us. Harbour tug, ferry and even autonomous oceangoing cargo ships are expected to navigate our seas in a decade or less according to same optimistic forecasts. Are these realistic expectations or just commercials? Are we at the beginning of a new disruptive innovation with new player enter the market such as Uber, Spotify and Airbnb did in other sectors?

The target identification process coupled with Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) and Decision Support (DS) tools will allow to rise warning issues and to spot anomalous behaviours or raising security warning as appropriate. Holistic considerations will tune the technical and scientific framework and set the features for next generation -autonomous going- vessels bridge.

Dale Gillibrand, Siemens plc

A Specialist Engineer at the Siemens Rail Automation division in Ashby de la Zouch, Dale is a member of the Architecture group and is involved in performing security assessments and training others to undertake them.

Introducing security processes into existing engineering and business processes can be challenging from both a technical and cultural perspective.

This presentation looks at our experience and some lessons learned so far.