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Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (External organisation)

Activity: Membership typesMembership of committee

Description

Space Weather Impacts on the Rail Sector Working Group

The role of the Rail Space Weather Working Group is to: ● identify rail vulnerabilities to space weather and best practice mitigation measures; ● make recommendations on what the sector should do in a space weather event; ● identify how the sector can be encouraged to develop its own engagement strategy on space weather risks and mitigation; ● meet at least 6 times to develop recommendations; and ● produce a short report summarising the above findings.
Period6/09/201630/04/2017
Held atDepartment for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Keywords

  • Space Weather
  • Rail
  • Natural Hazards
  • Transport
  • Safety
  • Government