A STAMP analysis on the china-yongwen railway accident

Authors:
Tian Song;Deming Zhong;Hang Zhong
Affiliations:
School of Reliability and System Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, PR China;School of Reliability and System Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, PR China;School of Reliability and System Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, PR China
Venue:
SAFECOMP'12 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Traditional accident models regard accidents as resulting from a linear chain of events. They are limited in their ability to handle accidents in complex systems including non-linear interactions among components, software errors, human decision-making, and organizational factors. A new accident model called Systems-theoretic Accident Modeling and Processes (STAMP) has been developed by Leveson to explain such accidents. In this paper, we will use the STAMP accident model to analyze the China-Yongwen railway accident for a more comprehensive view of the accident and propose some improvement measures to prevent similar accidents in the future.