Practical Issues of System Integration on the Taipei MRT System

This paper presents the practical experiences on methodology, management, schedule control and safety of the system integration on the Taipei MRT system. After all subsystems of the Electrical and Mechanical system are installed, system integration is to be performed. System integration comprises static, dynamic, commissioning, overall of respective integrated testing and revenue service simulation as well as the running test. E&M system consists of electric multiple units, signaling, power supply, communication, automatic fare collection system and depot & workshop equipment system. The interface of these integrating tests is complicated and troublesome. Therefore the consolidation of the test of each E&M subsystem has to meet the contract specification, requirement criteria and to reach the revenue service on schedule target. The automatic train running system must achieve the levels of maintainability and reliability specified in contract. All of them are complicated and troublesome and reported in this paper.