HART Honolulu

Role in This Project:

As a sub-contractor to Lawson and Associates, Inc., K&J is providing 2-fulltime personnel to provide safety and security certification management and support services to HART Safety and Security for the Honolulu Rail Transit Project

Project Description:

  • $9.2B project with FTA Section 5309 New Starts Revenue $1.55B FFGA 
  • Twenty (20) miles, dual track rail system on an elevated alignment with the exception of .6 miles at grade right-of-way
  • Third rail Traction Electrification System (TES) with a Traction Power Back-up Generator System and an Uninterrupted Power Supply System 
  • Twenty (20) elevated and one (1) at grade rail stations with 4 planned park and ride lots with 4,100 parking spaces
  • Four (4) new bus transit centers co-located at selected rail stations
  • A Platform Screen Gate System (PSGS) controlling access into the rail vehicles
  • Maintenance Storage Facility (MSF) with the Rail Operations Center (ROC) and Wheel Truing, Vehicle Wash, and MOW facilities.
  • Eighty (80) fully automated (driverless) rail vehicles; 20 trainsets using 4 car train configurations with 800 passenger capacity and open gangways
  • Train Control (ATC) system consisting of Automatic Train Protection (ATP), Automatic Train Operations, and Automatic Train Supervision (ATS)
  • Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System
  • Ticket vending machines with fare collection turnstile system

2021

No Planned Activities

 

2020

Key Certification Tasks Completed:

  • Issue interim certification (IC) certificates for the following key certification milestones:
  • PV-07. 08, 09, 11, 13, 14, 15 Delivery, Bogies and Coupler Verifications
  • PV-07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 IC to enter Dynamic Testing
  • Completed verification requirements for all MOW Vehicles
  • Completed verification requirements for Yard Control Bungalow (YCB) Civil requirements
  • Completed verification requirements for Airport Guideway Reaches A, D, and E Design Criteria Conformance Checklists (DCCC)
  • Completed Specification Conformance Checklist (CSCC) for Kamehameha Highway Station Group (KHSG)
  • Issue System Integration Testing (SIT) Phase II Hold Point Document and Interim Certification Requirements
  • Issue Trial Running Operations Hold Point Document, Interim Certification Requirements and Trial Running Conformance Checklist (TRCC)
  • Manage and Track all Safety and Security Certification Activities, providing status reports on a daily/weekly basis
  • Migrate all HART Safety and Security Documents from SharePoint and Contract Management System (CMS) to Unifier. 
  • Establish new processes, workflows, and certification reports in Unifier for HART Safety and Security.  
  • Facilitate and document the HART Safety and Security Committee and Working Group meetings.
  • Update the Safety and Security Certification Verification Report (SSCVR) for Segment 1. 
  • Provide Multiple Safety and Security Presentations to Key Project Stakeholders including FTA, PMOC, HDOT and upper HART Management. 

 

2019

Key Certification Tasks Completed:

  • Update the project Safety and Security Management Plan (SSMP) Rev 9
  • Update the project Safety and Security Certification Plan (SSCP) Rev 8
  • Issue interim certification (IC) certificates for the following key certification milestones:
    • PV-04, 05, 06, 12, 10 Delivery, Bogies and Coupler Verifications
    • PV-03, 04 IC to enter Dynamic Testing
    • MSF Yard – Systems Fully Operational
    • PV Manual Operations – Functional Track
    • PV Attended Operations – Functional Track
  • Issue final certification certificates for the following project components:
    • DB-120 WOFH Guideway Civil Contract
    • DB-320 KHG Guideway Civil Contract
    • FD-340 and DBB-385 Ramp H2R2 Civil Contract
    • Three (3) MOW support vehicles
  • Airport Guideway and Stations DCCC and CSCC verification
  • Facilitate and document the Safety and Security Certification related committees and working groups meetings.

 

2018

Key certification tasks completed:

  • Update the project Safety and Security Management Plan (SSMP) Rev 8
  • Update the project Safety and Security Certification Plan (SSCP) Rev 7
  • Issue interim certification (IC) certificates for the following key certification milestones:
    • PV-002, 003, 004, Bogies Delivery, 7 set of bogies for each Train set
    • PV-002, 003IC to enter Dynamic Testing
    • PV Manual Driving and Operations from OSB to Dynamic Section IC
  • Issue final certification certificates for the following project components:
    • CS YCB Civil Contract
    • FD-340 and DBB-385 Ramp H2R2 Civil Contract
    • NiteQ Shunter Vehicle (Rail Car Mover)
  • Facilitate and document the Safety and Security Review Committee (SSRC) meetings 
  • Facilitate and document the Safety and Security Certification Working Group (SSCWG) meetings
  • Facilitate and document the Project Fire Life Safety and Security Working Group (FLSSWG) meetings
  • Facilitate and document the Interim Certification Working Group (ICWG) meetings 

 

2017

Key certification tasks completed:

  • Updated the project Safety and Security Management Plan (SSMP) Rev 7
  • Updated the project Safety and Security Certification Plan (SSCP) Rev 6
  • Updated the project Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA) Rev. 2  
  • Performed DCCC and CSCC/STCC verification on all active project components
  • Development of a certification document configuration management system for easy access and audit purposes
  • Development of detail verification status tracking log with automated reporting features
  • Development of a Safety and Security Certification Verification Report (SSCVR) framework
  • Issued final visual verification reports for 
    • Maintenance and Storage Facility (MSF)
    • West Oahu Farrington Highway (WOFH) Guideway
    • Kamehameha Highway Guideway (KHG)
    • H2R2 Ramp 
  • Issued interim certification (IC) certificates for the following key certification milestones:
    • PT-001 Bogies Delivery #2 IC, 7 set of bogies
    • PT-002 Delivery
    • Dynamic Section Test Track 
    • PT-001, IC to enter Dynamic Testing
    • PT-001, IC Dead Car Pull
    • MSF TES
  • Issued final certification certificates for the following project components:
    • DB-200 MSF and rail yard – civil contract only
    • FD-430 and DBB-505, Airport Section Utilities Relocation
  • Supported the Safety and Security Review Committee (SSRC) meetings 
  • Supported the Safety and Security Certification Working Group (SSCWG) meetings
  • Supported the Project Fire Life Safety Working Group (FLSWG) meetings
  • Supported the Operational Readiness Working Group (ORWG) meetings 
  • Supported the Interim Certification Working Group (ICWG) meetings

 

2016

Key certification tasks completed:

  • Developed the Core Systems Specification Testing Conformance Checklists (STCC) for all sub-systems and Systems Integrated Testing  
  • Developed new certification status reports
  • Issued Interim Certification Certificates for the following key certification milestones:
    • Three (3) – MOW Vehicles Delivery and M-7, M-2, M-1 MSF Tracks 
    • MSF Yard M-4 and M-6 Tracks
    • PT-001 Delivery, OSB, M-5/M-4 Tracks, ORCC, MOW MPV
    • Five (5) – MOW Vehicles Delivery
    • MOW Facility Early Occupancy
    • MSF Civil IC Certificate – Tracks and Facilities
    • PT-001 Bogies Delivery #1 IC, 1 set of bogies – wheel sets 21 & 29
  • Performed Design Criteria Conformance Checklist (DCCC) verifications on the following project components:
    • MI-900 Fare Collection System
    • MI-930, Elevators (Stations) 
    • MI-930, Escalators (Stations)
    • Passenger Trains
    • Traction Electrification System (TES)
    • Four (4) MOW vehicles
    • Automatic Train Control (ATC)
    • Supervisory C&D Acquisition (SCADA)
    • Platform Screen Gate System (PSGS)
  • Performed Construction Specification Conformance Checklist (CSCC) verifications on the following active project components:
    • DB-200, MSF and Rail Yard
    • DB-120, WOFH Guideway
    • DB-320, KHG Guideway
    • DBB-385, H2R2 Ramps
    • DBB-271, Farrington Hwy Station Group (FHSG)
    • DBB-505, Airport Utilities – Construction
    • Yard Control Bungalow (YCB) CSC Civil – Contract
  • Performed Specification Testing Conformance Checklist (STCC) verification on the following project components:
    • MOW Vehicles (8-support vehicles) overall
    • Passenger Trains (PT)/Cars – General Requirements
    • Traction Electrification System (TES) – General Requirements
    • Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) – General Requirements
    • Communication Systems – General Requirements
    • Fire Detection Alarm System (FDAS) – General Requirements
    • Platform Screen Gate System (PSGS) – General Requirements
    • ATC / SCADA – General Requirements – General Requirements
    • System Integration Testing (SIT) & Demonstration
  • Performed Operational Readiness Conformance Checklist (ORCC) verification
  • Developed DCCCs for the following project components:
    • DB-450, Airport Guideway and Stations
    • DB-550, City Center Guideway and Stations
    • DB-275, Pearl Highlands Parking Structure/ Bus Transit Center
    • DBB-600, West O‘ahu Park & Ride
    • AP00 Art-in-Transit
  • Developed CSCC for the following project components:
    • MI-900 Fare Collection System 
    • AP00 Art-in-Transit
  • Supported the Safety and Security Review Committee (SSRC) meetings 
  • Supported the Safety and Security Certification Working Group (SSCWG) meetings
  • Supported the Project Fire Life Safety Working Group (FLSWG) meetings
  • Supported the Operational Readiness Working Group (ORWG) meetings 
  • Supported the Interim Certification Working Group meetings

 

2014 – 2015

Key certification tasks completed:

  • Issued final certification certificates for FD-430 and DBB-525 contracts, Airport Section – 7-drilled shafts
  • Updated the project Safety and Security Management Plan (SSMP) Rev 5
  • Update the project Safety and Security Certification Plan (SSCP) Rev 4 
  • Updated the project Threat and Vulnerability (TVA) 
  • Performed design criteria conformance checklist verifications on the following contracts:
    • DB-120, West Oahu Farrington Highway (WOFH) civil Guideway 
    • DB-200, Maintenance Storage Facility (MSF) and storage yard
    • DB-320, Kamehameha Highway Guideway (KHG)
    • FD-430, Airport Utilities
  • Developed draft Construction Specification Conformance Checklists (CSCC) for civil projects and Specification Testing Conformance Checklists (STCC) for Core Systems contracts as follows:
    • DB-120, West Oahu Farrington Highway (WOFH) civil Guideway 
    • DB-200, Maintenance Storage Facility (MSF) and storage yard
    • DB-320, Kamehameha Highway Guideway (KHG)
    • FD-430, Airport Utilities
    • FD-140, West Oahu Station Group (WOSG)
    • FD-240, Farrington Highway Station Group (FHSG)
    • FD-340, Kamehameha Highway Station Group (KHSG)
    • DB-440, Airport Stations Group ASG)
    • DB-540, Dillingham and Kaka’ako Stations Group (DKSG)
    • Traction Electrification System (TES)
    • MOW Vehicles
    • Passenger Vehicles 1) General Requirements that applies to all vehicles 2) Interim Certification to enter Dynamic testing
  • Developed the Operational Readiness Conformance Checklist (ORCC)
  • Supported the Safety and Security Review Committee (SSRC) meetings 
  • Supported the Safety and Security Certification Working Group (SSCWG) meetings
  • Supported the Project Fire Life Safety Working Group (FLSWG) meetings 
  • Provided safety and security related inputs for design reviews, operational readiness reviews, emergency drills, test plans, and start-up plans
  • Performed audits of the implementation of the SSMP and SSCP at the contractor level.

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