Roar Andreassen

Roar Andreassen is a senior advisor in Railsupport and subject manager within RAMS.

He has a background in safety and risk management within railways, aviation, emergency networks, the energy sector and telecommunications from Siemens, the Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority, Nokia Siemens Networks and Lloyd's Register Consulting. Roar has experience from design and SW development of safety-critical control systems, design and development of complex society-critical transmission and communication networks as well as more than 10 years of experience with independent investigation and assessment of safety-critical systems within both aviation and railways.

Within the railways, Roar has mainly worked with tasks dealing with risk management, availability, reliability and safety. He has several years' experience as a consultant at Bane NOR and Sporveien with a main focus on safety management within ERTMS, signaling systems, traffic management solutions (TMS), railway engineering as well as IT and telecommunications solutions. Roar has a master's degree in data processing and telecommunications and is a college engineer in electronics.

Special areas of expertise:

•Risk assessment and risk management

•Security assessments and technical verifications

•European and national railway regulations

•RAMS standards EN 50126, EN 50128 and EN 50129

•CSM-RA and technical specifications for interconnection (TSIs)

•Independent third-party control (ISA, AsBo, NoBo and DeBo)

•Signal technology, ERTMS, train radio, telecommunications and transmission

•Project management